Introduction
Tinderbox is a versatile personal content management and knowledge visualization software for macOS that helps people collect, curate, create, collaborate, and contribute their knowledge and insights.
This course is designed to teach you the 5Cs of Knowledge Management and the fundamentals of Tinderbox so that you can successfully generate and contribute their insights.
What You'll Learn
Foundational Skills and Frameworks
- 5Cs of Knowledge Management: Grasp and apply the Collection, Curation, Creation, Collaboration, and Contribution framework to enhance your PKM practices.
- CSA Framework: Implement core methodologies to structure and streamline your knowledge workflows.
- Metacognition and Thought Leadership: Develop a reflective approach to your work through incremental formalization, enlightened self-interest, and attribute (metadata) thinking.
Tinderbox Mastery
- Navigate Tinderbox’s powerful capabilities:
- Note Management: Seamlessly collect, curate, create, collaborate, and contribute knowledge assets.
- Attributes, Views, and Prototypes: Generate deep insights from your information.
- Build dynamic and Efficient Workflows: Leveage inheritance, agents, action codes, and templates to get closer to your insights and automatically manage the manual processes.
- Publishing and Exporting: Share your work effortlessly via HTML, MS Word, PowerPoint, Google Docs, and more.
Beyond Tinderbox
- Tool Ecosystem Integration: Enhance your workflows with tools like DEVONthink, BBEdit, TextExpander, TextSniper, Snagit, Pandoc, Bookends, Zotero, Obsidian, and more.
- Leveraging Standards: Utilize languages and syntaxes like HTML, CSS, Markdown, and RegEx to enrich your outputs.
- Community Engagement: Connect with Tinderbox and broader PKM communities for guidance, collaboration, and ongoing learning.