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The Tinderbox Way Mark Bernstein 9781884511462 Books

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The Tinderbox Way Mark Bernstein 9781884511462 Books

Mark Bernstein, the creator of Tinderbox, engages in a broad-ranging exploration of personal information management set out in parts, which are organized around various Tinderbox tools. Part philosophy, part epistemology, it makes for interesting reading. It is exactly what it purports to be: an exploration of Tinderbox functionality, and the thinking behind it. What it isn't is an owner's manual. If what you want is a fully indexed manual of Tinderbox commands and syntax, you'll be disappointed. In fact, I'm still not entirely sure where to find this information.

Don't get me wrong: I think this book is well worth having. It's made it clear to me how I can get the best use out of Tinderbox. Most manuals eschew this approach and go straight to the tactical: laying out the tools and examples for using them--assuming that the reader has already made up her/his mind about how the software will fit into her/his life, and essentially cutting the reader loose to find an answer to this larger meta-issue on their own. So Bernstein has provided us with a great and rare service which needs to be appreciated and acknowledged.

But I'd still like a manual, Mark...


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The Tinderbox Way Mark Bernstein 9781884511462 Books Reviews

I've been an occasional Tinderbox user for a number of years, never quite getting into the program but kept thinking it was sufficiently useful to keep paying renewals. Some parts of this book are a bit like a "Missing Manual" for Tinderbox, especially when it comes to exporting to HTML. My enthusiasm for the software has risen dramatically from reading The Tinderbox Way but it's not just an effect of seeing some features explained in more detail.

Woven adroitly into the explanations of how to use the program are discussions of the background, starting from hypertext experimenters predating the Web.

I could personally justify the purchase just for the explanation of the history, including the failure, of "strongly-typed links"!

Buy this book if you are serious about getting more out of Tinderbox.

Buy this book if you are interested in hypertext, linking ideas or different ways of annotating thinking, even if you don't own a Mac (Tinderbox is currently Mac-only, a Windows version is "forthcoming") or don't intend to run Tinderbox, but you might just find the software purchase following -)

Buy this book if you're a software developer interested in reading about a program developed with sound theoretical basis for its features and a discussion of the trade-offs in putting a lot of power in the user's hands.

I recently read Dreaming in Code and am saddened by the realisation that much of the chaotic history and design of the Chandler project might have been very different had they been able to read The Tinderbox Way before they started, or hired Mark Bernstein to consult.
Mark Bernstein, the creator of Tinderbox, engages in a broad-ranging exploration of personal information management set out in parts, which are organized around various Tinderbox tools. Part philosophy, part epistemology, it makes for interesting reading. It is exactly what it purports to be an exploration of Tinderbox functionality, and the thinking behind it. What it isn't is an owner's manual. If what you want is a fully indexed manual of Tinderbox commands and syntax, you'll be disappointed. In fact, I'm still not entirely sure where to find this information.

Don't get me wrong I think this book is well worth having. It's made it clear to me how I can get the best use out of Tinderbox. Most manuals eschew this approach and go straight to the tactical laying out the tools and examples for using them--assuming that the reader has already made up her/his mind about how the software will fit into her/his life, and essentially cutting the reader loose to find an answer to this larger meta-issue on their own. So Bernstein has provided us with a great and rare service which needs to be appreciated and acknowledged.

But I'd still like a manual, Mark...