A New App - MojoPad

Ostensibly a successor to VoodooPad, MojoPad swims in the same lake as Tinderbox.

I linked to the manual because I really couldn’t get a good idea of what it was about. I may try it in demo mode, but probably not. I’ve got enough things to do and learning another app is not one of them. (Except for Parallels and LoopCaD, because hydronic heating design apps don’t run on MacOS. Le sigh.)

Just tossing this in the mix. First read about it at Bicycle for Your Mind.

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I’m not sure about the app, bur the blog was worth looking at. Some thoughts on outliners, especially EMACS and OmniOutliner but nothing I could see on Tinderbox.

Thanks for sharing this.

But the link-to page says:

A MojoPad document is a personal wiki :unamused_face:

A wiki. Something Tinderbox is not. It might look like a wiki. It might cover the same ground as a wiki. But, a wiki is structurally a different thing. Does this matter to the user? Perhaps not, but whilst cows and horses both have four legs, getting milk from a cow is easier than from a mare.

The wiki’s lineage is the Web (1990, or publicly 1993). Tinderbox’s lineage is hypertext (c.1960s). This is not a zero-sum good/bad assessment, but I think there is some difference. The most obvious being wikis only have text-embedded links—HTML-style links hard coded in to a note’s text. Tinderbox uses the now-less-seen Linkbase notion, i.e. links stored outside the note. At casual use level, to the user, the two look the same. Go a bit deeper, and I think a linkbase offers a wider scope of affordances. Not, this still isn’t a binary assessment of worth. difference can still be meaningful difference without an implicit ranking (based on what criteria?).

I ought to get out more, but I’ve a stack of old Hypertext papers to read. :slight_smile:

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