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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 10, 2010 at 09:40 PM
Bob & Chris,
I will welcome any insights about Twig you might have after you’ve run it for a while. I can see how it might prove useful as a baby-brother Tinderbox for a second computer, but I don’t see how it could be that useful alongside TB on the same computer.
Steve
Posted by Hugh
Jun 11, 2010 at 08:17 AM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>Bob & Chris,
>
>I will welcome any insights about Twig you might have after you’ve run it
>for a while. I can see how it might prove useful as a baby-brother Tinderbox for a second
>computer, but I don’t see how it could be that useful alongside TB on the same
>computer.
>
>Steve
I’d welcome such insights too. The obvious role for Twig would be as a simpler substitute for TB for those who don’t want to stretch to learning TB’s “language”. But if Twig can’t export in a word-processor-friendly format without going via TB… I can see the business logic (less cannibalisation of Eastgate’s own product), but not so much the user logic.
However, to be fair, it’s very early days.
H
Posted by L. S. Russell
Jun 11, 2010 at 04:26 PM
I just wanna mention, for us Winders users there is a freeware app called Tobu ( http://tobu.lightbird.net/ ) that looks kinda similar. Not pretty of course, but I’ve been using it for about three months and it is pretty handy.
Hugh wrote:
>Eastgate has just released Version 1.0 of a new notes application called Twig:
>http://www.eastgate.com/Twig/. “Twig is a powerful yet lightweight tool for
>capturing and cultivating your ideas.”
Posted by eastgate
Jun 12, 2010 at 12:58 PM
Tinderbox has some great abilities that we value a lot, even though their capabilities demand a certain amount of complexity. It has very flexible export, though you might need to write an export template. It has very powerful agents, though you might need to tell your agent what to do. It can look at the same material in lots of different ways, using lots of different windows.
Some people don’t need all this, and dislike the necessary complexity. They don’t want to templates, and actions, and lots of windows. But they need more than a simple text window with an image of a spiral wire binding. And some people don’t need all this *yet*; if you’re starting a dissertation, you may know you will want export someday but be happy to put off learning about export templates for a year or two.
Twig will please people who prefer a smaller, simpler interface. And it’s less expensive. If it turns out that you need Tinderbox someday, you might still be happy to defer some of the complexity and expense until the time that they are of immediate use,