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Tinderbox is a personal content management system and personal knowledge base.

It is a tool for storing, arranging, exploring, and publishing data.cite-ref-1[1]

• Developer

• Features

• References

• Further reading

• External links

Tinderbox was developed for Mac OS and Mac OS X by Mark Bernstein,cite-ref-2[2] Chief Engineer of Eastgate Systems.cite-ref-3[3]cite-ref-4[4]

Its functions include storing and organizing notes, plans, and ideas, and sharing ideas through blogs.cite-ref-5[5] Novelist Giles Foden describes its hypertextual features as useful for pattern-making when planning a novel, as well as for organising research notes.cite-ref-6[6]

It also offers functionality similar to that of outliner and spatial hypertext/mind mapping tools, in addition to knowledge management, database and agent (persistent search) tools.

Tinderbox is used for a wide variety of tasks:

• As a personal web publishing system, with good support for blog creation and management cite-ref-7[7]

• Personal information management cite-ref-8[8]

• Outlining and mind mappingcite-ref-9[9]

• Concept mapping

• Note-takingcite-ref-10[10]

• Plot and story construction and writingcite-ref-11[11]

• Creating hypertexts

cite-note-11. ↑ Minifinders: Multimedia to Organization Software, MacWorld, May 18, 2004. Archived May 28, 2005, at the Wayback Machine

cite-note-22. ↑ Interesting Software Update: Tinderbox How-To, Jerry’s Brain - James Fallows The Atlantic, 9 March 2015

cite-note-33. ↑ Tinderbox 1.2: multipurpose app sparks, stores, and shares ideas., MacWorld, September 1, 2003. Archived May 16, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

cite-note-44. ↑ Hurrah For Great Mac Software by Jeremy Wagstaff, The Wall Street Journal, October 16, 2003.

cite-note-55. ↑ Eastgate Tinderbox product page, August 16, 2007

cite-note-66. ↑ citereffoden2003Foden, Giles (2003-10-16). "Method and the medium". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-06-08.

cite-note-77. ↑ Flint

cite-note-88. ↑ Mark Bernstein, "Composites, Construction, Hypertext", Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia, ACM, New York, 2001. pp. 122-123.

cite-note-99. ↑ See the Tinderbox manual

cite-note-1010. ↑ Notes about Notes and Tinderbox Prototypes

cite-note-1111. ↑ Plotting With Tinderbox. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.

• Review by Nathan Matias, SitePoint, 2004 February 27.

• Giles Foden, The Guardian, 2003 October 16.

• Deep Tinderbox, About This Particular Outliner, Ted Goranson

• The Best IA Tool You Never Heard Of, Sean Carton, ClickZ, 2002 October 7.

• Innovation Extreme Makeover, Robert Ouellette, Boxes and Arrows, 2004 June 21.

• Tinderboxing Engelbart Revisited, Gordon Meyer, Wet Behind the Years, 2003 May 29.

• Official website