The series of posts on Tinderbox by Steve Zeoli on his blog Welcome to Sherwood is a good place to start: The posts deal with Tinderbox 5 (the current version is 6), but they remain an excellent guide. I have started with buying “ The Tinderbox Way” to understand the philosophy behind the software. Now, I am starting a new exciting project which requires complex thinking and I decided to give Tinderbox another try. Perhaps my work at that time did not require such sophistication and creativity in note-taking. If I hear correctly, this is what Tinderbox is about.įrankly, I tried Tinderbox a couple of years ago and abandoned it after a while. Academics try to develop new categories based on discovering and documenting new connection between ideas.

I am not entirely happy with my note-taking workflow and I wish someone would help me to make it better. I have a pretty good system for naming, tagging and organizing most of my notes. But academic thinking requires much more than classifying information into a set of unmovable categories and keywords.

I fully agree with Mark that note-taking is a very important activity which we usually give too little thought. I have just listened to Sources and Methods, a podcast “about interesting people doing interesting things”. This episode was their interview with Mark Bernstein, the creator of Tinderbox app.

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