Curio 12 is m

Posted by Skywatcher
Apr 29, 2018 at 10:24 AM

Dellu wrote:
I tried it many times and dropped it. I just get blocked what to do with
>it. My mind just freezes.
> >for Tinderbox, my choices are just two: Outline or map. I always go with
>the maps.

I am a user of both Tinderbox and Curio, they have both become indispensable to me, but fill slightly different needs. I understand your “decision fatigue” with Curio, plenty of options always available at hand.. I think the solution is to just not overthink it too much , that’s what they call “analysis paralysis” :-) .

Just start with what your instinct tells you at first, knowing that you can always convert it to another format later if you feel it more adequate , outline to maps, maps to outline , etc.. that’s the beauty of Curio. The right format to use often reveals itself to you briefly after you start developing your ideas, but you’ve got to jump into the water and start putting down your ideas into any format first.

Being afflicted with the CRIMP malady myself, I tried to cure it by forcing myself to choose between Tinderbox or Curio, but not both. In the end I ended up keeping them both. While Tinderbox is superior in filtering, organizing, analyzing etc.. it is very much oriented towards written notes and doesn’t handle images too well, unlike Curio which is very much multimedia oriented. When some of my brainstorms need to incorporate images, web archives, pdfs, soundbites,.. I usually turn to Curio first. Sure, it doesn’t have the ( sometimes exhaustingly ) complex organizing features of Tinderbox, but it is the right tool for me when a project/brainstorm doesn’t fit too strictly into a straightforward map or outline format, but needs a bit of everything.
Another thing , once I have layed down a somewhat complex map in Tinderbox, zooming in or out on it is often problematic, as it doesn’t keep everything in proportion but tends to reformat both the spaces between notes and the visible portions of text in the notes themselves according to some mysterious rules that escape me. . Curio on the other hand just zooms in/out in a very straightforward manner, like you would do on a PDF or a web-browser.

PS: sorry about my strange grammar, english isn’t my first language ( not even my second actually )