I find myself wondering if it might be beneficial to look at how various people use Tinderbox in order to get a sense of what is possible, and indeed how different the app can be when the user’s requirements are different. If I’m not mistaken the home page of the app website has some examples of different use cases. And there are many discussions in the forum. I’ve been involved in a few myself, which I have found very helpful. I started this one, which went a lot further than I was expecting when I began it:
http://forum.eastgate.com/t/user-attributes-or-tags/1069?u=martinboycott-brown
I remember James Fallows commenting that for him the app was more about associations than hierarchies, and that has stayed with me ever since. Perhaps one of the most useful insights I’ve had into using the app. And what follows from that is that various ways of displaying those associations are very useful.