Tinderbox looks really exciting - Basically a 2D graphic semantic mapper, so you can place your nodes (documents, links, RSS feeds) and their relationships, and also publish out to weblogs. Classic Mac only at the moment, but OSX (and Windows) coming soon. I need something like this to arrange my stuff in a space with muscular (where to reach out for that inf) and semantic memory.
I used to run Web Squirrel, one of their previous products. Sophisticated, but wasn't handy enough for me to keep using it. Similarly for The Brain...
Another one I'm watching is Six Degrees (due to arrive in July for MacOS X and Windows): "rather than replace existing tools, it looks at the relationship between files, messages and people and creates connections. It presents the user with all the information about a project, regardless of where the project files or messages are stored, and without imposing a different way of working on the user. "
All these products have potential to start making sense of our scattered infs (information items), including how to sediment linear streams (usually temporal, but more generally storage-ordered rather than intention-oriented) into more comprehensible and articulated personal geographies. It sounds like that with Tinderbox you could have a personal info organizer (a non-linear geography) with RSS streams coming in and weblogs going out. Tinderbox is XML based, so it could be open (to the real world of inf-formation) and interoperable enough to be a real winner.
I've so far managed to stick to OSX only, but giving Tinderbox a try might be reason enough to run Classic.
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