![]() There is a 111-page “Getting Started with Tinderbox” PDF tutorial that comes with the app. The one criticism of Mark Bernstein that may be valid is that he doesn’t provide enough guidance for getting started with the app. Tinderbox keeps working just fine even if you don’t pay the update fee. Many users may not pay the update fee until a new feature comes a long that they want. For those of us who get great benefit from Tinderbox, that would be a hardship, so we pay the $98 update fee, seeing it as an investment in the continued growth and availability of Tinderbox. If it becomes financialy unfeasible for him to continue to develop the app, it will gradually whither on the vine. Tinderbox appears to be the main source of income for the software’s lone developer, Mark Bernstein. The decision about whether the initial cost is worth the money should not be made by comparing it to other applications that do less, but whether Tinderbox can help you manage and make sense of your data in ways other applications can’t and whether that is worth it to you. (Yes, there are lots of things Tinderbox fails at: no iOS companion and clunky exporting to name two.) There are multiple other views of your information in Tinderbox. I have written about how I think Tinderbox is the best outliner. The map view itself could justify the cost. ![]() Choosing DevonThink makes perfect sense for that person.īut that is ignoring all the other things Tinderbox can do. If, as the commenter whom I quoted above, you see Tinderbox as just another DevonThink alternative, of course it would not make sense to spend the money for the more expensive app. So it is not possible to compare the price of Tinderbox with that of any other application in any way that is logical. It does things no other app does, and it makes possible the manipulation of notes in ways no other single application does. ![]() Tinderbox is unlike any other app on the market. After that, the software keeps on working fine, but if you want updates, you’ll have to pay another $98, which buys you another year of updates. That $249 only gets you one year of updates. Still, $249 is a lot of money to spend on software that has a reputation of being very difficult to master, and even harder, perhaps, to figure out what in the world you want to use it for. That has always seemed unsustainable to me, which I think has proven true, as attested by the number of apps going to a subscription model. What shocks me is that any software only costs $10 or $20. Maybe it is because I started personal computing when most software cost over $200, but I am not shocked that Tinderbox costs $249. A simple outline helped me manage the production of a book for our local historical society. But I’ll tell you why that judgment does not fit my perspective. Everyone should judge the “value” of software based upon her or his needs. I am not going to contend that that opinion is wrong. That commenter also compared the price of Tinderbox with that of DevonThink. ![]() It looks useful and complex but it is too expensive for what it is… Annual pricing of nearly £100 is ridiculous. ![]() I used a Tinderbox map when I was trying to make sense of my Markdown Shakedown thread from last summer.Ī thread on the forum started out as just an announcement that Tinderbox 8 had been released, but turned into a discussion (in part) about whether or not Tinderbox is worth the investment of money and time. ![]()
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