Using tinderbox for investigative research

[PaulWalters]

This thread might have some useful tips:

Main Topic and Minor Topics

Hi Everyone. I’m working on a major environmental risk assessment, so it was probably stupid to implement Tinderbox for this, since I’ve never used it before this project, but here I am. I have agents set up for “fish” “benthos” “modeling,” etc., using queries such as $TopicType=“Fish”. However, ecosystems are complex things and, even though the main topic might be about fish (info mostly dropped in from DEVONthink Pro Office, which is another question in my head altogether) I also would like to…

and this blog article (quoted in that thread):

Investigation – Start Simply with Just a Few Prototypes and Agents

I suggest defining attributes for the people, companies, actions and dates. For the actions, you might want to use a set attribute with and define the allowable actions that can appear in that set up front.

Finally, as discussed in the thread, above, consider using the Attribute Browser view for your analysis work.