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Visualize. Analyze. Organize.

Whether you’re mapping out your next novel, finishing your dissertation, planning a product, or writing memories for your grandkids, Tinderbox will help.

Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. A professional tool that helps you analyze and understand your information as it grows and changes, Tinderbox is a powerful but personal content assistant that helps you share your notes through the cloud and on the Web.

Maps help you discover emergent structure and unexpected relationships
Agents and rules let your work keep itself organized
Treemaps, word clouds, and dashboards visualize your data
On the go? Make notes on your iPhone or iPad an Notes, EverNote, Dropbox, or DEVONthink To Go, and direct them straight to the relevant Tinderbox project.

Tinderbox is also great for plotting novels, planning dissertations, refactoring systems, and tracking your commitments.

In our national emergency, many of us are working hard to gather resources to protect the vulnerable, assist the afflicted, and to win the next election. We need to organize, and for some of us, organizing means Tinderbox. Keep track of volunteers, contacts, talents, resources, and voters. Don’t try to remember everything; lean on Tinderbox and let Tinderbox help you help more people.

If you work with challenging ideas, we think Tinderbox is a tool you need. Tinderbox is the tool for notes — a wonderful approach for visualizing, analyzing, and sharing your important ideas.

“For the past eight days, I have spent most of my waking hours using Tinderbox. I am using it to analyse a small eighteenth-century epistle ..in preparation for a presentation to be delivered at a conference this coming Wednesday. As I recently told a few colleagues, this type of textual analysis, and the speed at which I am able to execute it, would have otherwise been impossible without a small team of personal research assistants. — researcher at Oxford University”

Whether you want to get things done or to plan your next book, to design a new curriculum or release a new product, Tinderbox gives you powerful tools do capture ideas, organize them, and discover emergent structure.

Tinderbox has an amazing user community, and even a backstage program for people eager to watch as the software takes shape. Here’s one example, a user’s short movie that James Fallows called “Combo: ‘The 400 Blows’ + tech manual”.

We think you’ll find Tinderbox to be a a great example of serious, artisanal software — hand-crafted with intelligence and care, and designed for serious work.