As I mentioned before I'm new to Tinderbox. I don't have any specific questions at this point; it's just helpful for me to write things out as I think. I've played with many organizers over time: Ecco Pro (one I actually used), Zoot, Mori, and Journler in particular. I'm attracted to it because of its flexibility, Mark's excellent support and because notes are also containers.

I'm making a point to spend at least some time every day using, organizing, and learning Tinderbox. Using means typing in notes and using it to keep track of things. Organizing means thinking about the structures I want to create in Tinderbox. Learning at this point means reading the manual and trying out features.

I'm trying to keep things simple, not to create structure for structure's sake. I'm also more familiar with the outline metaphor, so I'm starting with that aspect of the software.

I liked Journler's model of using a diary metaphor, having diary entries going into one main folder, where they can be cloned to other folders for organization. So I've created a Diary folder sorted backwards by date. Random To Do's are going in another folder for now. For now it's mostly a convenient place to keep notes.

Reading the Tinderbox Way, I felt I learned something reading the section on how one should use one's PDA. A PDA is for calendar events and for To Do's that you really do expect to do that day; it is not meant as a local repository for the hundreds of to do's from all your projects, both proposed and critical. I do wonder how people get information into their PDA, if there's an automated method or if it's just a matter of copying things back and forth as needed. One of the great things about the now defunct Ecco Pro was it synchronized it's folders with those on a Palm Pilot which made it easy to get information in and out.

Thank you, I hadn't found that yet. Just starting on the Objects and Concepts entries now.