![]() ![]() I have been using Tinderbox for my daily work journal, to design software, keep track of projects (Tinderbox allows to build a nice dashboard to display the metrics you need to know), online research of all kinds, etc. There isn’t enough space here to review all the other features, or talk much about the ability to have “agents” or “smart adornments” search for and organize the data to provide a different view (no better way to find new connections by displaying the same information in a different way). Being able to lay out notes in 2D space, attributing them (color, shape, subtitles, captions), badges and connecting them via links or simply through proximity or grouping in adornments is already extremely powerful, although that is only a small subset of Tinderbox' capabilities I’m mostly referring to the map view (which is my favorite for that type of activity). I attribute that to the fact that Tinderbox provides an environment to work in that allows me to explore ideas and find connections in my notes besides providing a mechanism to jot information down for later retrieval. It provides a way to organize my notes and make sense of them in a way that I have not been able to do with any other piece of software. Tinderbox was the last I tried and it has stuck with me. Some of them I used for more than a year before I finally decided that they wouldn’t do what I wanted them to do. Circus Ponies’ notebook, OmniOutliner, Curio, DevonThink Pro to name a few. Send us feedback about these examples.I bought Tinderbox in 2011 after I had tried what seems like an endless list of other products that promised to achieve the goal of taking and organizing information. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'tinderbox.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2023 This land has become a tinderbox after decades of drought and climate change. Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. Chris Massaro, Fox News, Such an escalation could easily spark large-scale protests across the Arab world, where long-simmering economic hardship and political repression have created a tinderbox. Nicholas Florko, STAT, As Albanians go to the polls on May 14 in local elections in a region that many experts and policymakers consider a tinderbox in Europe’s tumultuous Balkans region, critics worry that the Biden administration has retreated from the former communist county. Randy Essex, Detroit Free Press, 5 June 2023 The prison was such a tinderbox that Attorney General William Barr publicly urged prison officials to send home as many Elkton residents as possible. ![]() ![]() Ian Austen, New York Times, 9 June 2023 Michigan is a tinderbox The fire came amid a significant dry spell, the Free Press reported Monday, with no relief in sight. Shannon Osaka,, 10 June 2023 JCanada’s capacity to prevent wildfires has been shrinking for decades because of budget cuts, a loss of some of the country’s forest service staff, and onerous rules for fire prevention, turning some of its forests into a tinderbox. Joseph Wilson, ajc, 25 June 2023 But, particularly in the Northern Hemisphere, rising temperatures can turn already fire-prone forests into tinderboxes. Recent Examples on the Web In addition to turning the terrain into a tinderbox, drought is complicating the firefighters' ability to work: some of Catalonia’s reservoirs have been ruled unusable for water-dumping aircraft due to their lack of their low levels of water. ![]()
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