[Eastgate] Last Call: Winter Festival of Artisanal Software

[Mark Bernstein]

It’s time for last call for this year’s Winter Festical or artisanal software.  Great prices on terrific tools: Tinderbox ❧ Scrivener ❧ Scapple ❧ Nisus ❧ DEVONthink.

	http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Specials/WinterFest.html


WinterFest

From time to time, we get together with some top software craftspersons to offer great discounts on great software.  In recent years, these collaborations have become increasingly important to us.  I think there’s one key reason: exceptional people take the trouble to use exceptional software because they have work that needs doing.  I know of no software audience more discerning, more critical, or more receptive than the people who follow these pathbreaking tools.

Just in the course of Tinderbox support, I hear about wonderful Tinderbox applications in fields I’d never have dreamed: tracking the development of folk music, discovering criminal financial networks, understanding terrorist movements, writing plays and novels and important new books, campaigning for office, scheduling surgery, teaching people to plan for marriage or to  cope with disease or to understand their art.  It’s great to be able to help.

Earlier this year, I argued in "Shadows: A Software Allegory" that software isn’t simply a matter of shiny and fashionable interfaces. “There are people to feed, art to make, science to discover, sickness to cure, a climate to preserve, and winter is coming.” 

These days, it’s remarkable to care enough about your work to seek out the very best tools.  That’s why we’re always overwhelmed by the response to these festivals, held this year in cooperation with the excellent folks behind Scrivener, DEVONthink, and Nisus.  There’s snow on the ground. 2014 is knocking at the door. It’s the time for new plans and fresh projects and great new ideas. Whether you’re planning your next novel, finishing your dissertation, designing a product, or writing memories for your grandkids, we think Tinderbox and the rest of these great tools will help.

	http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/Specials/WinterFest.html
	WinterFest 2013:
	festival of artisanal software for writers
Tinderbox
Scrivener
Scapple
DEVONthink Pro
Nisus

If your toolbox lacks any of these great tools, now is the time to prepare.  Scrivener is a uniquely thoughtful writing tool, a terrific way to organize and reorganize your writing.  DEVONthink is a terrific personal repository, a place to keep pdfs, URLs, scans, and all sorts of stuff that you’ll need to find again.  Nisus is a wonderful word processor, ideal for formatting your work exactly the way your publisher wants it – and an absolute world leader when it comes to handling multiple languages.

And of course, if you’ve been kicking the tires of Tinderbox: the tool for notes,  this is the best time of the year to get your copy, or to bring your old copy up to date.

No games, no puzzles, no too-good-to-be-true bundles.  Just 25% discounts on full versions  of great software for writers and researchers, available directly from the designers, right at the vineyard gate.

The new year will bring new ideas, new projects, and new challenges. Get the tools you need at a terrific price, for a very limited time. We’re also offering a discount on Tinderbox Upgrades and a sale on The Tinderbox Way.  Start the new year right.  (And, yes, Tinderbox Six will be a normal upgrade and so it will be included in your upgrade package.)

	
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Mark Bernstein           bernstein at eastgate,com    (617) 924-9044
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