![]() But I was also balancing it with the fact that currently 80% of my study time is iOS and at least some of that 80% is iOS by necessity as I’m in situations where I can’t practically take my MacBook (eg, studying during work lunchtimes or on my commute). That’s a very good point - I’m a massive visual thinker. It’s much better to understand what a prototype is, for example, if you make one yourself. I do suggest going through their tutorial and going through the help menu when you need help. I wish they had a competitor so that the price would go down. The price tag for it is because you can do all that cool stuff if you want to, which you can’t do in any other program. Even if you don’t add any numbering system, you can still use the Attribute Browser to view all your notes sorted by creation date, for example.Īs you can see, Tinderbox is as simple or complex as you want it to be. But you may be happier, for now, just making notes and not worrying about all that. I’m happy to walk you through setting all that up. Like magic, you have an outline view in order (true zettelkasten style) of all your notes. You can have it display every note (zettel), organized by title. But Tinderbox has a powerful Attribute Browser. Then, even if my notes get messy in Tinderbox (since it’s a graphical ‘desktop’ with your notes kind of like ‘icons,’ it’s easy to get messy. It’s just that a zettelkasten is meant to have a numbering system, and I figure the best numbering system is a timestamp. The prototype note runs a little script that finds the attribute for the creation date and then inserts that text as the title of my zettel. Ok, with that said, I’ve created some custom attributes that serve the purpose of inserting a title for me into new zettels. (Those examples aren’t even custom attributes as Tinderbox has many build in ones, including those, that you can choose from a list.) So if I want every Zettel to have those attributes ready for me to fill in, the fastest way would be to create an empty note with those attributes selected, and then in the inspector tell Tinderbox to treat that note as a Prototype. That way, you can have attributes for things like AUTHOR and DATE. Tinderbox will display the field where you can type in the value of your attribute right at the top of your note. But in Tinderbox, that tag, which is called an attribute, doesn’t just have a title. You can think of attributes as custom tags on drugs. So, for example, every Zettel I create is made from a prototype that has certain user attributes that I want it to have. A prototype is a way of creating a new note that has the properties of another note. You can get away with simply typing notes as your zettels and doing nothing more. ![]() This workflow replaces all of those steps with a single action.A prototype is a fairly basic concept within Tinderbox, once you get past simply writing notes. To do this without the Workflow app, a writer would have to select and copy text, paste it into a document, select and copy additional text, paste that at the end of the document, and then copy everything to the clipboard. Here, the depicted Workflow appends selected text to whatever is currently saved to the clipboard. Using the Workflow app's simple visual interface, a writer can automate multi-step tasks. ![]()
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