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Posted by NickG
Apr 30, 2018 at 12:12 PM
Dellu wrote:
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>- I honestly didn’t know that conversion between maps and outlines in
>Curio was possible.
>
It’s one of the things I love about Curio - I can pick a format at the start and chop and change as I go. Among other things, it’s a great way of being able to repurpose content - one format for my thinking, another for inclusion in a report, maybe a third for a presentation.
I admit, I do spend far too much time wondering whether my deathless prose would be even more deathless if I changed the format. But that’s me - displacement activities have always been my strong point :-)
Posted by Paul Korm
Apr 30, 2018 at 07:33 PM
True - though with limitations. Storing “assets” (files added to a Curio “project” — PDF, RTF, etc.) does make the item searchable in Spotlight, but clicking it does not open the Curio project they are associated with. And Spotlight does not search “figures” (lists, mindmaps, tables) created inside a Curio project.
NickG wrote:
In fact, from version 11.1, you can choose to store Curio assets
>alongside the project file (rather than within the package) to make them
>searchable from Spotlight. There is some useful discussion about
>trade-offs over in the Zengobi forums.
>
>Paul Korm wrote:
>Spotlight does not search within packages. It’s a Spotlight limitation,
>>not Curio’s. DEVONthink gets around this by (optionally) creating a
>>metadata file for each document in a database package and storing that
>>file in a cache that Spotlight searches. Curio does not use that
>>procedure.
>>
>>Dellu wrote:
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>>>is Curio’s package searchable with Spotlight?
Posted by Dellu
May 1, 2018 at 05:44 AM
Paul Korm wrote:
True - though with limitations. Storing “assets” (files
>added to a Curio “project” — PDF, RTF, etc.) does make
>the item searchable in Spotlight, but clicking it does not open the
>Curio project they are associated with. And Spotlight does not search
>“figures” (lists, mindmaps, tables) created inside a Curio
>project.
thank you for the clarification Paul.
I like Devonthink’s approach.
The interesting part of Devonthink is that, even if Spotlight fails to search the cache, the package internal files can be manually searched using other search tools. Devonthink puts the files within the database in a very meaningful and transparent way. I index the pdf files of my Devonthink database to Foxtrot. I also create aliases of the RTF library just to open them up in finder when Devonthink is not running.