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?