September 17, 2009
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Investigation and Chronology

New at On Tinderbox and Litigation: A detailed look at using Tinderbox to represent the chronology of events that emerges in an investigation.

Investigation and Chronology

One important concept: it pays to use both lists of events and maps. Lists are compact, and Tinderbox outlines let you expand and collapse complex events with multiple components. But lists can be too compact, preventing you from grasping the intervals between events. Maps give you more freedom, but they take up more space, and sometimes maps can be simply too busy. You need both!