Curio and Devonthink

Posted by Amontillado
Jun 3, 2022 at 01:21 AM

It’s a cool combination.

I’ve had a Curio license for a long time, although I had retired Curio from most use. Older versions have minor stability issues. Nothing too serious, but enough to be frustrating. That seems to be in the past, at least from what I’ve seen so far. For instance, I used Curio for a math notebook, but had troubles with some equations becoming invisible. The current version opens those old notebooks without glitches.

I’ve also come to appreciate some of Curio’s built-in features are more useful than they immediately appear.

For instance, I initially thought Curio’s mind map could never replace MindNode. It’s not quite as pretty as MindNode and I thought Curio’s mind map was missing some features. MindNode allows notes per node, and each node can have a file attachment.

If you turn on Curio’s Notes Inspector, you have notes per node - because anything in Curio can have an attached note. Mind map nodes aren’t special, just like mind map nodes can have check marks. Because everything can have a check mark.

You can attach files to nodes for the same reason. File attachments are pretty much universal.

A node can have a jump target, a button linked to anywhere else. On top of that, it can have cross reference links, as many as you want, to other entities in the Curio project or to external links, including deep links into other applications. You can pile more features on a single node than you would ever want to.

All universal features. Anything in Curio can have those attributes.

It’s not for everyone. For one thing, it’s very solidly in the not free category. On the other hand, it does mind maps, kanban stacks, lists, and lots of organizational things. Taken as a solution for several applications in one, it’s not what I would call expensive.

I might prefer Devonthink for most class notes, but I would not take a math course without Curio.

Despite my gushing, I have no association with Zengobi or their product, Curio.

And, it’s not for everyone. Please don’t take me too seriously, particularly when I’m having this much fun.