If I were writing such a how-to book, I'd probably start to plan it by splitting the task into four main parts (in addition to introductory and closing chapters), namely:
- What is Tinderbox? A summary
- Tinderbox Views, their features and functionality, with the stress on how to use them
- Tinderbox Actions, Agents, Rules, Templates, Exporting and Automation, again with the stress on how to deploy them, and in what circumstances
- a survey of the salient and relevant features of Tinderbox when deployed for potential uses such as brainstorming, outlining long-form documents such as books, creative investigation, data analysis, and so on, yet again with the stress on how to go about those tasks in general cases employing the software, with examples.
I've probably omitted topics that should be included. But to give a flavour of what I believe many users would find helpful, I thought Steve Z's post, when it was put up on his blog nearly twelve months ago, on outlining with Tinderbox 6 (
https://welcometosherwood.wordpress.com/2015/04/22/outlining-with-tinderbox-6-6-...) was a model of what could be very helpful. I found it so, despite my previously having used the software over several years. Not to rip off Steve's work - but that's the kind of thing that I suspect many new users would like to see, alongside similar treatments of Tinderbox's other views.
Obviously, there would be issues in keeping such a book up-to-date, but that is something that the Take Control folk are well-experienced at managing.
Just my 2p.