Curio 25 released

Posted by Amontillado
Mar 15, 2023 at 05:14 PM

Use cases make all the difference. I prefer mind mapping in Curio over MindNode, for example. Curio is more flexible in linking and I can put other forms of notes side-by-side with a mind map. The folding buttons in Curio mind maps are nice, too. If I uninstalled MindNode, life would go on.

On first glance, Curio lacks a critical feature. For instance, there is no mind node note attachment - because, since everything in Curio has a note attachment, there’s no specific need for mind map notes. The same notes popup that works for any other entity in Curio works for mind map nodes.

Curio has more friction for note taking than, say, Obsidian, although the gap has narrowed.

The Welcome to Curio document, written with Curio, looks like overwhelming work. In practice, it takes almost no effort to produce documents with that level of polish.

Even when notes are just for me that degree of finesse helps keep my enthusiasm up.

Obsidian is trivially future proof. Devonthink is only slightly less future proof.

I’m pretty sure I could get all my text notes out of Curio’s XML without using Curio. That’s my standard for future proofing, but I wouldn’t do that unless there wasn’t an alternative. Exporting a project to Markdown preserves what matters. I can’t remember ever losing data in Curio, but exporting to Markdown probably isn’t a bad idea as part of backup.

For planning creative work, I think I’ve returned to Curio. It is top notch for math notebooks. It’s not for everything, and probably not for everybody.

You can’t have my Linux and Windows (yecch!) Obsidian vaults and my Mac Devonthink databases until you pry my cold dead hands from the keyboard. On the other hand, Curio is working well for me.

MadaboutDana wrote:
Interesting. I keep being tempted to return to Curio, then backing off
>again.
> >But having been rather disappointed by Agenda’s latest update (yes, it
>does now do multiple windows, but hey), I might give Curio yet another
>look…
> >Cheers!
>Bill