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Curio 28 has been released (Mac only)
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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 12, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Sorry – it’s also worth mentioning that as well as tags, Growly Notes has drawing tools, custom templates, auto-backups, password protection, custom settings for pages/sections/notebooks, and various built-in templates (with e.g. background lines, grids etc.). As well as favourites, plus a very good search function (universal search + highlighting, list of hits in right-hand navbar).
And its footprint is a small fraction of equivalent apps (on disk: a truly tiny 25MB – yes, you read that right, MB, not GB! The sigil of a truly competent programmer!)
Alas, Growly Notes is Mac-only.
Cheers,
Bill
Posted by Amontillado
Feb 23, 2024 at 06:41 PM
Quick update - Curio is 20 years old today. Zengobi is offering it for 20% off through the end of the month.
Mac-only, very handy for outlining and storyboarding either with graphics or text.
Posted by satis
Feb 24, 2024 at 02:02 AM
Not bad, although at other times like Black Friday it’s 30%
Posted by moritz
Feb 26, 2024 at 08:28 PM
The effective discounted price for a Pro license is $95.99.
12 months of upgrades cost $79.99 - no special discount :-(
I might buy another upgrade in 2 years to contain the cost of my ‘Curio-sity’.
Amontillado wrote:
Quick update - Curio is 20 years old today. Zengobi is offering it for
>20% off through the end of the month.
>
>Mac-only, very handy for outlining and storyboarding either with
>graphics or text.
Posted by Amontillado
Jun 22, 2024 at 03:29 AM
Curio 29 is out and it’s really neat for certain purposes.
It’s still not a document library on par with Devonthink. Tinderbox can do more automation than Curio, although Curio now has queries. I’ll concede Curio has higher friction than other systems but it excels at producing a polished view of ideas. It is very easy on the eyes.
The big news in Curio 29 is something George calls Compositions. These are like the pinboards Curio has long had (sort of like sub-canvases) but they behave like a GUI’s grid layout manager, if that makes sense. Basically, a rectangular thing you can drag other things into.
You can put almost anything in a Composition including other Compositions, lists, mind maps, pretty much any Curio structure.
As you drag the members of a Composition around, they snap to being above, below, right, or left of anything already existing in the Composition.
Anything in the composition that changes size reflows the layout, retaining the grid.
You aren’t restricted to the same number of columns in any row, or equal numbers of rows in any column. It’s freeform but with a nicely regulated layout.
For instance, I have a story I keep thinking (ha!) would make a nice novel. I hack away at it from time to time.
Tonight, I had some new ideas and tried a new-to-me way of getting them on (virtual) paper.
I put short lists into a Composition. My lists were outlines, basically, except mostly one level. Bullet points of what happens, one little list per general area of the story.
Those lists are in a column on the left side of the Composition.
In the right column in that Composition, I’ve got notes on what Curio calls index cards. In the list that steps through Colonel Mustard whacking somebody in the Library with a lead pipe, I can have sidebars about the Colonel, his trusty lead pipe, and the Library. Anywhere those notes appear I can edit them. Change one copy, change all.
An index card has a “collapse” triangle on the title line. What I discovered today is the body of the index card can contain a synced text figure.
In plain English, I can have collections of notes about people, places, and things. Beside any outline where such things pertain, I can put a synced copy of a relevant note. Better yet, if I put that synced copy in an index card, I can collapse the notes, saving real estate.
This is fun stuff!