November 20, 2002: So, Steven Johnson mentions Tinderbox and like a slave I have to go and try it again. I downloaded it once before on Victor's recommendation. My reaction in both cases has been: eek! It feels so complex and scary. Lots of options to choose, relationships to set, metadata to input. I can tell that it could be an amazing tool for the right person's left-brain. But my sense is that by trying to do perhaps too much it fails to do the one little thing I'd like which is make it easy to enter and recall individual (or small clusters of) ideas. In that sense, it feels a bit like the Visio of note-taking software.