Curio 28 has been released (Mac only)

Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 12, 2024 at 10:44 AM

For a nice, and free, Curio alternative – that isn’t, I would be the first to admit, anything like as comprehensive as Curio – it’s well worth checking out Growly Notes, which has been around for years.

It’s a kind of OneNote for Mac, but has its own very powerful features (including the kind of partitioned treatment of PDFs featured in Curio). And is, as I say, free of charge.

The developer did release an iOS version some years back, but take-up was poor, so he sensibly abandoned it again. Its editing capabilities are much superior to Curio’s, frankly, and it has a broad range of export options (including HTML). It supports a vast range of import options, too, including movies, audio files and web pages (as well as video and audio recordings). It also supports tags, tables and shared notebooks. You can attach files, too, and I’ve found that while it isn’t closely integrated with Curiota in the same way as Curio, it does work very well together with Curiota (as does, for that matter, Keep It).

I like Curio, but gave it up long ago, and have used Growly Notes for various multimedia projects since then. It’s regularly updated (the developer also publishes a variety of free games and utilities), and can be found at: https://growlybird.com

The developer, Chris, worked for Microsoft a couple of times – he’s very entertaining on the subject, and is very amiable altogether! He programs for the love of it, just like Maurice.

Cheers,
Bill