Several years ago I played with it in its pre-development stage when it
was called Ceres. Essentially, it's like Storyspace in that it is to
some extent an example of spatial hypertext, for it uses the
Storyspace-style graphic folder system that permits the user to write
in a "space", a hybrid folder + document, and then move things around,
nesting folders inside one another and so on, and rearranging
organization effortlessly
. Like much of the work done years ago at Xerox PARC by Dan Russell,
Cathy Marshall, and others , Tinderbox is essentially a conceptual
organizer — but it permits storing large amounts of info , verbal,
visual, etc.
g
On Sep 11, 2005, at 12:44 PM, Millie Niss wrote:
> Sue--
>
> Eastgate http://www.eastgate.com/ (the company that made Storyspace)
> has a
> product which they claim is good for collecting notes and bibliographic
> materials and so forth. It's called Tinderbox, and is available
> (only) for
> the Mac. I know nothing about it, so I am not endorsing it at all
> (and I
> have heard negative things about Storyspace, so I might even be a
> little
> suspicious), but it might be worth looking into.
>
> It sounds like what you want to do is actually fairly straightforward
> but
> very tedious (to do by hand, for example). If you program (like maybe
> in
> Java or Visual Basic or some other mainly off-line language that can
> also
> look on the web) it might not be that hard to create exactly the kind
> of
> database you need...
>
> Can Excel produce the formatting you need? If it can, that might
> actually
> be a sensible choice. (There is also MS Access -- does this exist on
> Mac? -- which almost certainly can do what you want but isn't as easy
> to
> use.) What about Filemaker Pro?
>
> What is the book to be about (or is it confidential as yet?)?
>
> Millie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sue Thomas" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:47 AM
> Subject: [WDL] Advice re collecting bibliographical information
>
>
>> I'm posting this query to the list and also to Tipmonkies
>> http://www.tipmonkies.com/
>>
>> I'm just starting a big book project which is going to take me five
>> years
>> and will involve an extensive bibliography and an awful lot of
>> footnotes.
>> Worse, it will be a multimedia bibliography which so far is spreading
> across
>> bloglines, furl, and del.icio.us as well as all kinds of other
>> websites
> and
>> print media.
>>
>> What I would like is some kind of template - online or offline -
>> where I
> can
>> collect my growing multimedia bibliography in an orderly fashion, and
>> in
>> established format, MLA or whatever.
>>
>> An important function I'd like is one with fields which retain the
>> correct
>> formatting for each entry, i.e. Automatically generating apostrophes
> around
>> certain kinds of titles, or making them italic or underlined, etc.
>> Doing
>> that kind of formatting is the most tedious part of the job, so a
>> record
>> which only exports as plain text, for example, wouldn't be much help
> because
>> I want to be able to then paste references into footnotes and also
> generate
>> or paste the whole list into a Word doc when I need to - and keep the
>> formatting at the same time. A tall order! But I always end up with
>> references all over the place and this time I want to start off on the
> right
>> foot.
>>
>> I started creating this in Excel but realised it would be sensible to
>> find
>> out whether someone has already done it first - does anyone have any
> ideas?
>>
>> oh, and I am Mac-based :)
>>
>> Thanks
>> Sue
>>
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