Re: [Tb] Starting to learn Tinderbox

Well, that's what I would call a nice, quick an helpful response.
Thanks everybody!

I could have figured out the prototype stuff myself I guess, dunno why
I did not. I know all the help docs and the wiki you mentioned but
often don't really get what they are talking about ;-)

RSS seems to be complicated, I will leave this behind for now.

The link color stuff is a bit weird, though. All the boxes are
checked, both in Document and Tb prefs. I just played around with
creating links again a few minutes ago and found out the following:
The created links are blue, but the color disappears as soon as I go
on writing (I apparently did that all the time when wondering why the
damn text did not turn blue). When I stop writing, the color would
return after ca. two or three seconds. Weird, but if you know that it
works this way it's fine with me.

So, thanks a lot again, I see through all this better now and even get
the feeling I will understand (well, sort of) Tinderbox some day.
Different from many other people I like the interface very much, by
the way, and absolutely love that there ist no toolbar.

It may be that the wiki or mailing Eastgate is better for questions of
the kind I asked, like Mark pointed out, but then I did not want to
bother the developers with such beginners crap, not being a paying
customer yet. And I am more used to mailing lists than to wikis, but
that is a matter of taste.

Maybe, if I do not bore anyone, a few more thoughts from a Tb newbie:
I believe it would be easier to get people into Tb if only the demo
would allow the creation of a bit more notes. I created a document
called "Mastering Tinderbox" with adornments reading "got that",
"still wondering how the heck this should work", "resources" and so
on. As you can guess, the adornment named "still wondering how the
heck this should work" is by far the biggest. I even added a
background picture of Hanna Schygulla from a Fassbinder movie, which
makes it look great. But with the ability to only create seven notes
you cannot play around really much. At least not enough to decide how
powerful the software really is. Maybe 30-50 notes would be better,
then I could use Tb to actually document my quest for understanding.
That would be fun. And this kind of "learnig Tb documents" could be
shared among new or would-be users.

DevonThink for example alllows me to work for a certain amount of
hours (unlike the 30-days-from-first-day-I-opened-the-app-approach so
many other programs have) until I have to register. When the time is
up, I got so used to it and stored so much information in it that it
became quite indespensible - which will be a good argument for buying
it.

Greetings,
th.
Received on Sun Jan 29 13:22:59 2006