SummerFest 2025

Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox
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Hi All, did you see the email? SummerFest2025 is here.

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https://www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com/

Our summer festival of artisanal software is now open. For a limited time, we’ve teamed up with a bunch of small software developers to offer great, sustainable prices on terrific software. Highlights range from Tinderbox (and my new ebook Thinking With Tinderbox) to Mellel and Nisus, Scrivener, Bbedit, and the award-winning media manager Peekto. Michael Becker’s 5Cs offers a variety of Tinderbox courses and resources, too.

Here is a list of the offerings:

Let’s support the artisanal software community. If you have experience with any of these software solutions, books, templates, or courses, please comment below and share your experiences.

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@eastgate when does SummerFest2025 end?

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I’ve used:

  • Tinderbox, my primary working environment.
  • Thinking With Tinderbox, a fascinating book (I wrote the forward)
  • Tinderbox Libraries, Templates, and Courses, over these years I’ve spend 1000s of hours curating these libraries, templates, and course. I use everything in this library, and more, for my day-to-day work.
  • BBEdit, a wonderful text editor and very powerful tool to debug and work RegEx (see its "Pattern Playground)
  • Hookmark, I’ve had varying levels of success with Hookmark, a universal file linking tool. I’d love to hear suggestions from other users.
  • Bookends, Bookends is a fantastic citation management tool; however, personally, I use Zotero as it interfaces well with my markdown and pandoc workflows. I’m sure Bookends could too, I’ve just not gotten around to putting the pieces together.
  • HoudahSpot, a wonderful macOS search tool. Love it!
  • Scrivener, I used it a lot but have since gone to doing all my writing in Tinderbox (I leverage the 5Cs modules—libraries and templates—that I’ve created).

What do people know about Peako and Photoworkbench? My pictures out out of control.

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Thanks for mentioning this, @satikusala!
Sorry to say that the SummerFest server seems to be down. Putting @eastgate in cc: for his information.

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I’ve been in touch with the server farm since 6am. Thanks!

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It’s back now (1015 EDT); that’s the longest outage in eons. I’m very unhappy about it.

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Very strange, I’ve entered the SummerFest2025 coupon code but the FastSpring checkout cart states “The coupon code you entered does not exist.”.
Has this promotion ended already (Summer ends Sept 22nd according to my calendar)?

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SummerFest happens in summer, but doesn’t extend through the entire summer. In fact, it was expected to close Tuesday July 29.

But we can’t leave you standing out in the cold! I’ve extended the coupon through the end of the week.

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