I am looking at StorySpace and with its guard rails (fields) ability seems like it could be used in presentations to create different narratives for the same content. Use Case: Sales, Prototyping, Internal Team Discussions, Group Brainstorming etc from existing Tinderbox files.
Just curious: Has anyone who has both applications used it for this purpose?
Tom
Useful here would be to understand the use case of the āguard railsā. If you are referring to the OnVisit test, note:
In Storyspace, an action performed when the reader visits the note. This is honoured in Tinderbox and can be used as an āOnSelectionā event trigger.
Rather than approach this in the manner ādoes App X have feature Y from app Bā, Iād ask āhow can I to test X in context Yā
My hunch is Tinderbox action code can do this, even if not in the manner initially presumed.
Hi Mark
No specific use case, rather more exploratory in nature since I have not used SS very much at all (my bad). I was thinking about how I could use SS at work and the thought to use it in presentations lingered. I am not sure at all if there are any new affordances over Tinderbox for informal meetings however since SS has been in existence for eons, I thought I would float the question to the community who might have used it in this context before. I do not know.
Tom
My hunch is recent improvements to Tinderboxās presentation mode (aka Text preview pane) surpass Storyspace use. Next step is to make a use case and try in both apps.
I believe that Dr. Diaz is deferring to Storyspace guard fields, the distinctive feature of Storyspace links that allow links to be enabled or disabled based on what the user has previously seen and done. In lots of ways, āguard railsā is a better image!
I donāt believe guard fields have been used extensively for C-suite presentations, though one of the nice things about Tinderbox and Storyspace as a presentation medium is that you can drive documents in different directions as your audience requires ā something notoriously hard to do with PowerPoint. This is also what Prezi did nicely, and was a strength of Pad++.
Ah yes. Iāve been away from office for a few days and access to āGetting Started with Hypertext Narrativeā. Iāll dig in a bit as I suspect, most of guard fieldsāwhich I think are semi-legacy even in Storyspace v3.xācan be replicated in Tinderbox. Iām not trying the latter for dogmatic reasons but simply so as to allow Tinderboxās extra affordances to be brought into play.
One missing Tinderbox element might be a ānavigateā operator that follow a link/load itā . IOW, we can test a [link] and if the test is true then the link is followed, else no link or an alternate.
ā . That might be stated a different way as a select(path) operator. Drawing on this transition, this raises the notion of an āon loadā but I think $OnVisit captures that. so we may be in better shape than thought.
Fascinating use of $Stretchtext in StorySpace to create dynamic stories in StorySpace and Tinderbox.
Great article by Howard Oakley giving an example of how you can create some question and answer dynamic notes.
Cheers
Tom