# The Tool For Notes

Tinderbox is your personal content assistant, a tool for making, analyzing, and sharing notes.

Tinderbox makes it easy to capture ideas quickly, to organize them effectively, and to reorganize them as your understanding changes. In addition, your Tinderbox notes can actively work on your behalf, helping to organize themselves and to highlight notes (and relationships between notes) that might need your attention.

Tinderbox is designed to let your notes evolve and improve as you use them. You don’t need to plan everything in advance; you can add new power to your Tinderbox notes when you need it.

## Notes

Notes are the basic elements of writing and information in Tinderbox. Each note has:

- title: the name of the note
- text
- attributes: other pieces of information about the note.

Notes live in Tinderbox documents. You must create a document before you create notes. You can create many Tinderbox documents, and individual Tinderbox documents can comfortably contain thousands of notes.

You can open several different Tinderbox documents at the same time, and you can open several different windows for the same Tinderbox document.