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Curio 28 has been released (Mac only)
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Posted by Amontillado
Feb 8, 2024 at 02:12 AM
Wikilinks and backlinks, new features to Curio, make it feel more agile. Figures (things like text frames) don’t have titles. As you enter a Wikilink you search by text and tags to find what you want to link to. In that regard it’s like The Archive, which I believe is an outgrowth of Notational Velocity.
I still like MindNode but I generally reach for Curio when I want to make a mind map. Curio’s mind mapper has more features than MindNode and if I want to add other things as I brainstorm I’m already where I need to be.
My eye always wanders, which is why I come to this forum for therapy. However, between Curio and Devonthink, I can do just about anything I need regarding planning, brainstorming, and warehousing information.
Whatever tools we choose, we have great power at our fingertips. The great siege weapons of individual information warfare - tools like Easy Data Transform, Curio, Devonthink, Obsidian, Affinity Publisher, Mellel, Nisus, and on, and on - visit fear to tyrants’ hearts. And you can watch cat videos, too.
It’s a wonderful life.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 8, 2024 at 01:38 PM
:-D
I love the idea of visiting fear on tyrants’ hearts – while watching cat videos. I must practise…
Amontillado wrote:
>My eye always wanders, which is why I come to this forum for therapy.
>
>Whatever tools we choose, we have great power at our fingertips. The
>great siege weapons of individual information warfare - tools like Easy
>Data Transform, Curio, Devonthink, Obsidian, Affinity Publisher, Mellel,
>Nisus, and on, and on - visit fear to tyrants’ hearts. And you can watch
>cat videos, too.
>
>It’s a wonderful life.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 8, 2024 at 01:50 PM
I’ve always liked Curio, so I am glad to learn it is still vibrantly being updated. I’d use it if I didn’t spend my work days on a Windows PC. In fact, I think it would be perfect for some of my projects in the office.
Thanks for the update.
Steve
Posted by moritz
Feb 8, 2024 at 09:11 PM
Curio is one of the most impressive tools of its kind.
However, a small number of essential quality-of-life issues have gotten in my way of using it:
1. PDF export/print will frequently create lines that are vertically cut in half, with the top of the characters separated from the bottom.
2. No ‘text editor’ mode exists: Text is always regarded as a graphical box with a defined width and height. To write longer pieces, I found I had to revert to integration with external markdown files, which is clumsy. This is unlike Tinderbox, which offers a Map view and an Outline view of the same document and a separation of ‘body text’ and ‘label’ per note.
3. Sharing information collaboratively on an ongoing basis is impossible (that includes the aspect of Mac-only support). This is in contrast to Obsidian, where it’s clunky but can be done for small teams (via Sync or Github).
4. Basic export via the clipboard to PowerPoint does not render graphical formatting correctly. Sorry, but that’s a hard show stopper for any business use?
This situation breaks my hard, in light of all of the awesome goodness across so many other powerful features.
I would rate Curio a 6/5 stars. Sadly, because of 1.-4. will not try to use it again - in the past, it became a black hole for my work, which I then had to redo with inferior tools that didn’t suffer from the same limitations.
Posted by Amontillado
Feb 9, 2024 at 04:59 AM
Very good points, Moritz, and I can’t disagree. My use of Curio has been limited to two cases. I use it for planning or brainstorming and I like it as a math notebook. Math, unfortunately, doesn’t like me as much as I like Curio as a whiteboard.
Tinderbox has always interested me. I own a license I’ve kept fresh for quite a while. I should revisit it. If Tinderbox had the polished appearance of Curio and comprehensive documentation it would be a fascinating tool. ATbref gets better all the time, so I guess I should probably ease off on my criticism.
Curio has picked up one of Tinderbox’s concepts, the agent. Composite figures like mind maps or lists can be created by query. I haven’t used that much although I think the feature is pretty neat.
Thank you for your comments. Great food for thought.
moritz wrote:
Curio is one of the most impressive tools of its kind.
>
>However, a small number of essential quality-of-life issues have gotten
>in my way of using it:
>
>1. PDF export/print will frequently create lines that are vertically cut
>in half, with the top of the characters separated from the bottom.
>
>2. No ‘text editor’ mode exists: Text is always regarded as a graphical
>box with a defined width and height. To write longer pieces, I found I
>had to revert to integration with external markdown files, which is
>clumsy. This is unlike Tinderbox, which offers a Map view and an Outline
>view of the same document and a separation of ‘body text’ and ‘label’
>per note.
>
>3. Sharing information collaboratively on an ongoing basis is impossible
>(that includes the aspect of Mac-only support). This is in contrast to
>Obsidian, where it’s clunky but can be done for small teams (via Sync or
>Github).
>
>4. Basic export via the clipboard to PowerPoint does not render
>graphical formatting correctly. Sorry, but that’s a hard show stopper
>for any business use?
>
>This situation breaks my hard, in light of all of the awesome goodness
>across so many other powerful features.
>I would rate Curio a 6/5 stars. Sadly, because of 1.-4. will not try to
>use it again - in the past, it became a black hole for my work, which I
>then had to redo with inferior tools that didn’t suffer from the same
>limitations.
>