Writer’s Diary #43: Tinderbox 10 and the Guadi View

I’m a long time user of Tinderbox from Eastgate Systems. A Mac app, that is a Swiss Army knife for notes.

This summer, once again, I’m working on the book. I have hundreds (or more) of pages of notes. Now is a good time to find some order in my madness. For that, I really like Tinderbox’s brand new Gaudi view.

The Tinderbox Gaudí View — the first novel hypertext view in years — tessellates the idea plane to keep more notes in sight. Tinderbox continuously adapts the shape and placement of each note to give each a fair share of the available space, while avoiding unwanted distraction. Gaudí view is especially good for brainstorming and conferences!

It is great for brainstorming, for bringing notes that are related together by dragging them while the other notes slide smoothly out of the way, and for lingering and attending and playing with and getting a feel for the notes.

The thousands of new badges, via SF Symbols, are just really nice to have as well.

For example, this is a sample of the outline of the book.

Screen Shot of Gaudi View

Update July 22 at 1:50 pm.

I learn from Mark Anderson’s wonderful TBRef that with a force expression in the Guadi view control at the top, it’s easy to get related notes to come together.

$Tags==$Tags(that)

Notes with related tags, are drawn together. Super useful.
Guadi View, organized with like minded notes brought together.