Outline (by Gorillized) and Notebooks (by Alfons Schmid)

Posted by Hugh
Mar 7, 2017 at 06:40 PM

My take on Tinderbox is that it’s not really a note-taker at all. It’s a tool for discovering “emergent structure”. If you need such a tool, you will find, after all the investment of time and effort in understanding and learning it*, that the effort has been very worthwhile and that in the pursuit of emergent structure it has no rival whatsoever.

But if your interest is simply in notes - taking them, filing them, curating them - you will find that there are many ways less demanding than Tinderbox to scratch your itch. They include Apple Notes, Notebooks, Evernote and Microsoft’s OneNote. Even Devonthink with its sorter is an option.

*Steve Z of this parish has covered Tinderbox very usefully many times on his blog, including a recent and continuing series of tutorial videos: https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/tinderbox/