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We’re big fans of Brent Simmons – not least because of the cartloads of advice he’s given us in the course of years of work on Tinderbox Six.

Tinderbox is the tool for notes – and a tremendous help in managing software challenges like big refactoring efforts. Tinderbox gives you the technical tools you need — inheritance, composites, templates — to handle all the challenges of you face in software. From brainstorming and product design through architecture, refactoring, testing, and marketing, Tinderbox can help capture ideas, uncover emergent structure, and help you adjust as plans and requirements shift.

Tinderbox is also great for plotting novels, planning dissertations, and tracking commitments. 

If you work with challenging ideas, we think Tinderbox is a tool you need. Tinderbox is the tool for notes — a wonderful approach for visualizing, analyzing, and sharing your important ideas.

For the past eight days, I have spent most of my waking hours using Tinderbox Six. I am using it to analyse a small eighteenth-century epistle ..in preparation for a presentation to be delivered at a conference this coming Wednesday. As I recently told a few colleagues, this type of textual analysis, and the speed at which I am able to execute it, would have otherwise been impossible without a small team of personal research assistants. — a researcher at Oxford University”

Whether you want to get things done or to plan your next book, to design a new curriculum or release a new product, Tinderbox gives you powerful tools do capture ideas, organize them, and discover emergent structure.

Tinderbox has an amazing user community, and even a backstage program for people eager to watch as the software takes shape. Here’s one example, a user’s short movie that James Fallows called “Combo: ‘The 400 Blows’ + tech manual”.

Tinderbox Six is just out, with a host of exciting new capabilities.

We think you’ll find Tinderbox to be a a great example of serious, artisanal software — hand-crafted with intelligence and care, and designed for serious work.

“Fantastically useful” — S. Irene Virbila, L.A. Times food critic
“I use [Tinderbox] every day” – James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly and author of China Airborne

This week, we're offering a $75 discount to Brent’s readers.

And we’re also offering $5 off on The Tinderbox Way, Mark Bernstein’s book on the ideas behind Tinderbox. The Tinderbox Way takes a new look at the way computers can help ideas (and their representation) evolve over the course of months and years. With chapters on agents, dashboards, and why Tinderbox (sometimes) needs complexity, it’s a unique look at a unique program.

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Here’s an actual shot of one of the Tinderbox planning documents for Tinderbox 6. We had hundreds of existing classes to bring over to a new framework. Some were brand-new; some were ten years old. Some had good tests; some were big tangled blocks of legacy code. Simply keeping track of what had moved – and how it had been refactored in transition – was a challenge.
But that’s not the only challenge, of course, because each move throws up new ideas. New utility objects can clean up the code you’re working on – and also lots of other parts of the system! New abilities will make nice marketing talking points, if only you can remember to talk about them when everything’s finished!
Designing and building software is difficult. Tinderbox gives you tools like inheritance and composition. Why would you work with less?

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