Ariana's Blog

I have spent three days so far writing scripts about Tinderbox's tutorial movies. The plan is to finish all the scripts about the basics of Tinderbox and to then start making the short movies. Today I have just started writing about the six views that Tinderbox offers, which is the last part of the basics. So far I have written scripts about notes and how to make them, how to turn a note into a container note and how to make links to other notes, to external files and to URLs.

Making those scripts was not easy. Although it seemed easy at the beginning, it was tricky and sometimes time-consuming. First, we should decide what to include and what to exclude since making a note could be simple, but how far should we go? Should we just teach how to make a note in the simplest way or try to add a little more such as shortcut keys and context menus? Moreover, we should figure the most optimal way to explain them and sometimes the way that Tinderbox works is so complicated that explaining them only with sentences was not easy. However, the fact that with movies we could also show the action while we would be describing a step was very helpful.

Finally, today I tried to get familiar with the software that we will be using to capture the screen shots: Snapz Pro X. It was very simple and user-friendly software with great results. I loved it from the first time: no frustration, no questions, and no confusion.