Each record in the database will become a new writing space or note, and certain fields will be used to populate the attributes of each note. The idea is straightforward: in a database, content is stored in fields.

With FileMaker Pro 15 just hitting the streets, and its wonderful free iOS partner FileMaker Go 15, this article describes the first stage of a project to create a custom database front end which will feed formatted content into Storyspace 3 and Tinderbox 6. Although Tinderbox is ideally geared to exporting data in different and customisable forms, there is no (obvious) app available for both OS X and iOS which will deliver data well to Storyspace, for example.

Although I can do some of that at my Mac, I want to be able to do so when more mobile, on my brand new iPad Pro when out enjoying the fresh air, for example. Just now I need to enter quite a lot of information about events. Although I love working in Storyspace, it is not always available, or most suitable for a given task, even if I want my data to end up as hypertext within it. If you’re not careful, you can waste a lot of your time just trying to move data between different platforms and apps.

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