Curio 12 is m

Posted by Dellu
Apr 30, 2018 at 08:15 AM

Skywatcher wrote:

>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 )

This is interesting. My work also involves PDF files most of the time. But, I never bring them to Tinderbox (except linking them in some cases). I always read my PDF files in Skim or PDFexpert. I sometimes export the summaries and annotations. But, often times, I keep a Tinderbox window on the half of my screen to write notes while reading the PDF with PDFexpert.

- I honestly didn’t know that conversion between maps and outlines in Curio was possible.

One major problem with Tinderbox is that it’s XML package is not suitable to search with Spotlight. I have to constantly export my notes to Finder to be able to search them with Spotlight.

is Curio’s package searchable with Spotlight?