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Toggling visual characteristics in outline view of notes from the same prototype using rule tab in the prototype - Tutorials and Examples - Tinderbox Forum. This is a clear and useful suggestion.

Toggling visual characteristics in outline view of notes from the same prototype using rule tab in the prototype - Tutorials and Examples - Tinderbox Forum

Color to indicate DateModified - Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox - Tinderbox Forum. Hi Katherine, Here’s some action code that might do what you’re looking for: var maxAge; maxAge=14; var age; age=min(list(maxAge, days($ModifiedDate, now))); var colorOffset; colorOffset = (255/maxAge)*age; $Color=rgb(colorOffset,255-colorOffset,0);

Color to indicate DateModified - Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox - Tinderbox Forum

If(condition){action}[else{action}} Operator Type: Operator Scope of Action: Operator Purpose: Operator First Added:

if(condition){action}[else{action}}

Agent & Queries. Queries are action code expressions in a conditional form that must resolving to true/false statements.

Agent & Queries

Agent queries result in the agent creating a list of aliases that will include each matching item once. Operators. This is Tinderbox Cookbook version 2.0.1, created in conjunction with Tinderbox 7.3.2.

Operators

The locale settings used to export this document: en-US. Most date tests were written/tested on a UK day/month order system and thus tests may fail if exported using different locale settings. This page explores Tinderbox operators, used in actions, rules, and with the export templates ^action() and ^value(). If(condition){action}[else{action}} If(condition){action}[else{action}} Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 4: sidethreads and projections – The Eclectic Light Company. In the last article, I showed how I incorporated an alternative narrative thread in my Storyspace hypertext account of the history of oil painting, and how to incorporate references using stretchtext.

Porting from WordPress to Storyspace, 4: sidethreads and projections – The Eclectic Light Company

One issue which I did not resolve last time was distinguishing to the reader which passages of blue text are stretchtext, and thus will not change the context, and which are text links, and will change the context when the reader clicks on them. I have had time to think this through, and I believe that in this case it is important, but that changing the colour of the text is not the best way to go about a solution.

What is Tinderbox?  View from a newbie. I've been reading the manual, playing around with Tinderbox, reading every resource on the Web, and comparing Tinderbox to apps which seem "adjacent" in the information management space.

What is Tinderbox?  View from a newbie

It occurs to me that Tinderbox is confusing to people because it consists of layers of increasingly advanced functionality, and that one is not required to know or use all the layers to make use of Tinderbox. These are the layers I see, as they unfold: # Capture. Creating an article in HTML with Tinderbox. This is a tutorial on writing an article with Tinderbox for publication as HTML.

Creating an article in HTML with Tinderbox

In fact, this tutorial was written using Tinderbox, so it'll serve as its own example. You're reading the HTML export now, and the complete source documents can be found here on GitHub. Writing an article in Tinderbox I'll build things up incrementally throughout the tutorial, documenting something close to the actual process I went through along the way. Asymco and Modularization. Modularization is the problem, notthe solution.

Asymco and Modularization

One great advance in production systems was the ‘modularization’ of product components so that each component could be designed and produced separately and then assembled. This notion is well over a century old. A second advance was in farming out the components to subcontractors. Taking note: Zettelkasten. Introducing Box. Table of Contents When I first started using Tinderbox I dreamed of exporting my notes as a website or blog.

Introducing Box

Over time, I developed a TBX that did just that. Storyspace 3: Space and Time, more from the Map view – The Eclectic Light Company. Much of the time, tutorials and demonstrations of sophisticated apps get bogged down in detail, and make the app look difficult to use. Very capable, yes, but equally daunting to the inexperienced user. This short and very simple tutorial should show you how easy it is to create visually attractive hypertext using Storyspace 3 – or beautiful notes using Tinderbox 6, as it transfers across directly too. Processing Qualitative Research Data With Tinderbox. I wrote a while back that I often use a piece of software for the Mac called Tinderbox to churn through messy, unstructured focus group data and see the meaning and inherent structure in a soup of qualitative data.

I was fortunate to be asked to present my method at a Tinderbox Weekend last November by Tinderbox auteur Mark Bernstein. It's a complicated process at the start, but once it's set up correctly you can zip through qualitative research data pretty quickly and develop structure in the process. Automatic map view from outline hierarchy. You want your different outline levels in different circles. For an alias, the outline level you need is $OutlineDepth(original). Depending on the depth of the 'top' level -if not at root - you may need to add a fixed factor to rebase the sequence. Tinderbox. Exprima Talks: Reading Hypertext with Mark Bernstein. Exprima Talks, led by Corey Pressman of Exprima Media and conducted for Publishing Perspectives, is a series of discussions with people thinking and tinkering in the space of reading. By Corey Pressman In this interview, Corey Pressman of Exprima Media poses a series of talking points, or prompts, to Mark Bernstein, about the current state of reading and where our digital content consumption is headed.

Bernstein is chief Scientist at Eastgate Systems and the designer of Tinderbox, the tool for notes. Storyspace: the original hypertext app. There aren’t many apps still around and thriving which can claim to be the first of their kind: pieces not just of computer history but of our cultural history too. Eastgate Systems’ Storyspace is the only such app which springs to my mind. MapSelf. Listing of Tinderbox tutorials on clarify-it.com. The tutorials here are provided courtesy of Shoantel Limited (Mark Anderson). The tutorials, which are in HTML form, were created using Tinderbox and documented in Clarify. Note that the links below open pages published on www.clarify-it.com's servers. The 'short' URLs are via Bit.ly for use in Twitter and the like.

In more recent articles, where the steps start with a number, you can jump to a step by appending '#step_X_Y' to the main URL, where X is the step number and Y the sub-step. TinderBox. TechnoCrit. You are writing a short hypertext. The Tool For Notes. Tinderbox 6 Inspector. Course Planning: Boxes and Links » Ordinary Human Language. Index. Tinderbox » Ordinary Human Language.