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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 1, 2022 at 02:46 PM

That’s fair as far as it goes. It is really like just the Tinderbox Map view, without the other views, such as outline. But the notes area for each of the cards in Scrintal is a superior (in my view) editor for writing and adding other content.

Steve

Amontillado wrote:
Scrintal looks like a focused Tinderbox - is that a fair assessment?
> >By “more focused” I mean it appears to do the corkboard/note thing
>without the backend agents and other automation Tinderbox offers.

Posted by Amontillado
Aug 2, 2022 at 05:39 PM

Well, drat, now an old rabbit hole calls. I’ve been messing with property tax reports, mining for scandal (and finding plenty) with a little bit of Python and a lot of peregrination in Easy Data Transform. It’s reminded me I don’t mind poking around with knobs and levers.

So I reinstalled Tinderbox. This time, it might stick.

I’m thinking of containers that self-populate with relevant notes, allowing story plans to evolve themselves from primordial seas of seemingly unrelated ideas.

I could do the same in Devonthink with smart groups, of course, and maybe I should start taking better advantage of that feature.

The only drawback in DT is that you can’t apply a manual sort to a smart group. I ask much, I know. I have a lot of respect for whoever said too much is never enough. I’m sure they followed the CRIMPing lifestyle.

Tinderbox and queries and agents, oh my, this could at last be the final One True End-All-Be-All Method for story planning.

Posted by bigspud
Aug 3, 2022 at 12:21 AM

Do you think it’s half the value in function to heptabase?
Heptabase boards have evolved pretty quickly,
Scrintal looks friendly enough,, > but are the data-working features rich enough?

$250 out of pocket to test the two, but damn curious!

satis wrote:
Company blog post on early-access to Scrintal, and discussing the $60/yr
>pricing they decided on:
> >https://blog.scrintal.com/revealing-scrintals-early-access-plan-1fb36a3d0b8f
> >Article on using Scrintal for research:
> >https://medium.com/the-scrintalist/researching-a-topic-using-scrintal-500b194b395e

Posted by bigspud
Aug 3, 2022 at 12:21 AM

Do you think it’s half the value in function to heptabase?
Heptabase boards have evolved pretty quickly,
Scrintal looks friendly enough,, > but are the data-working features rich enough?

$250 out of pocket to test the two, but damn curious!

Posted by satis
Aug 3, 2022 at 02:19 PM

bigspud wrote:

> Do you think it’s half the value in function to heptabase?

I’m unfamiliar with helptabase.

>$250 out of pocket to test the two, but damn curious!

If you can get into Scrintal’s Early Access it’s free until September, then it’s $5/month.

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