Tinderbox Update, Plus The Brain
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.
It's been a while since the latest update on this front, so here is a quick mention of developments in two programs I've followed over the years.
1) "." For the past few years, my go-to workhorse program for data organizing/software-for-thinking has been the Mac-only program Tinderbox, in Watertown, Massachusetts. (My program for writing, as I can't mention often enough,, from Literature and Latte software in Cornwall, England.) I still love the idea-organizing program , which in this magazine back in the mid-1990s. But Zoot is Windows-only, and since I made the switch to the Mac world six years ago, fleeing the nightmare that was Windows Vista, I've mainly had to admire Zoot from afar.
