Curio 28 has been released (Mac only)

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.
>