Thanks for the suggestion, @PaulWalters. I started this TBX-based solution a year ago, for a few reasons:
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I don’t think that the way that The Archive (and similar software) has been built is actually suitable for Luhmann-style zettelkasten (by which I mean the three points at the top of my original post). By using the date the note was created as the organising principle, you cannot file new notes behind pre-existing notes and create local note sequences (folgezettel).
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None of the other software holds a candle to what Tinderbox provides by way of analysis of your notes, using agents, the Attribute Browser, etc.
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None of the other software actually harnesses the ability of a computer for realising a digital zettelkasten.
Let me unpack this third point because it is important. In my view, the primary benefit of the Archive (for example) over a paper-based zettelkasten is its ability to search using keywords, Google-style. In fact, this is the primary way in which one finds one’s notes in their version of a zettelkasten. The only other benefits are speed (which is not always a virtue) and the portability of a digital collection via sync, using laptops, etc.
However, my own experience supports what University of Chicago’s Andrew Abbott has found: that keyword indexing and search is not only over-rated, but counter-productive for scholarship. Compare this to what Tinderbox can do: like The Archive and others, you can view your notes in an outline, a list. If named correctly, this allows you to see clusters of notes, the note sequences to which I refer above, grow over time. So far, nothing that a paper-based zettelkasten can’t do.
Where Tinderbox shines singularly amongst all software for a zettelkasten (with the possible exception of ConnnectedText) are all the other views. This is not eye-candy. The recently-introduced Hyperbolic View in Tinderbox is the most brilliant way to see links made between notes across the entire collection. Unlike Map View, the benefit of which is largely restricted to one container, Hyperbolic View shows you the a notes links to all other notes in the file, and more importantly how those notes link to any other notes.
Between Outline View and Hyperbolic View, you have the most perfect visualisation of your zettelkasten and all its internal links and connections. The Outline View for local note sequences, and Hyperbolic View for notes sequences created via links. If you are going to use a computer for notes, this is why you do it. Tinderbox is really ideal for the purpose.