Common features in Tinderbox and Twig
Started by Wes Perdue
on 9/12/2010
Wes Perdue
9/12/2010 7:12 am
I just discovered, thanks to a tweet today from Mark Bernstein, Michael Bywater's write-up of Tinderbox 4.5:
Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox450/Bywater.html
It highlights some of the new features of Tinderbox 4.5, two of which are stand-out features of Twig to me: Similar Notes and Common Words. So if you are up-to-date on Tinderbox and like those Twig features, you may not need Twig after all.
I bought Twig anyway, as I don't mind supporting good development houses like Eastgate. I've not yet found the Tinderbox equivalent to the Noter, Twig's rapid-fire input and search view; it can be useful in a number of different situations. Twig is also a good alternative to Notational Velocity as an interface into Simplenote.
The most important feature to me in Tinderbox 4.5, which prompted me to renew my license, is a key combination for edit-in-place in outline view: cmd+shift+return. This lack of this keystroke in previous versions was the one thing keeping me from using Tinderbox as my brainstorming outliner, since simple edits were not quick as a keystroke. Thanks to this improvement, Tinderbox is beginning to take the place of OmniOutliner for me.
Tinderbox: from Michael Bywater
http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/updates/Tinderbox450/Bywater.html
It highlights some of the new features of Tinderbox 4.5, two of which are stand-out features of Twig to me: Similar Notes and Common Words. So if you are up-to-date on Tinderbox and like those Twig features, you may not need Twig after all.
I bought Twig anyway, as I don't mind supporting good development houses like Eastgate. I've not yet found the Tinderbox equivalent to the Noter, Twig's rapid-fire input and search view; it can be useful in a number of different situations. Twig is also a good alternative to Notational Velocity as an interface into Simplenote.
The most important feature to me in Tinderbox 4.5, which prompted me to renew my license, is a key combination for edit-in-place in outline view: cmd+shift+return. This lack of this keystroke in previous versions was the one thing keeping me from using Tinderbox as my brainstorming outliner, since simple edits were not quick as a keystroke. Thanks to this improvement, Tinderbox is beginning to take the place of OmniOutliner for me.
Wes Perdue
9/13/2010 12:45 am
I wrote:
I just realized the current version of Tinderbox is 5.5.x; these features have been here for a long time, and I've only now discovered them, and because of another tool - Twig. Tinderbox is like that, and Michael Bywater says as much in his review:
I wrote:
That would be the most important feature to me in Tinderbox 5.5. I apologize for any confusion.
- Wes
It highlights some of the new features of Tinderbox 4.5, two of which
are stand-out features of Twig to me: Similar Notes and Common Words.
I just realized the current version of Tinderbox is 5.5.x; these features have been here for a long time, and I've only now discovered them, and because of another tool - Twig. Tinderbox is like that, and Michael Bywater says as much in his review:
I'll never know all of what Tinderbox can do, which is oddly comforting
as long as it does what I want.
I wrote:
The most important feature to me in Tinderbox 4.5, which prompted me to
renew my license, is a key combination for edit-in-place in outline
view: cmd+shift+return.
That would be the most important feature to me in Tinderbox 5.5. I apologize for any confusion.
- Wes