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From database to hypertext: exporting from FileMaker Pro to Storyspace
If you’re not careful, you can waste a lot of your time just trying to move data between different platforms and apps. 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.
Just now I need to enter quite a lot of information about events. 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. 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.
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.
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Storyspace 3 is a tool for writing and reading hypertext narrative, for fictional and nonfictional stories told with links.
StorySpace can be found at http://www.eastgate.com/storyspace/
Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas.
Tinderbox can be found at http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/
This post has a follow-up at https://eclecticlight.co/2016/05/14/alternative-methods-of-importing-into-storyspace-and-tinderbox/