Curio 28 has been released (Mac only)

Posted by Rausch
Feb 9, 2024 at 09:12 AM

I tried using Curio for quite a while as it looked so good on paper: but I gave up a few years ago mainly because of your point 2 on the lack of a proper text editor. This lack of easy (and what i would consider genuine) notes.

I’d been playing with Tinderbox at that time but dropping Curio led me to use it properly and with the changes to Tinderbox over the past few years (I started on 5, it’s now on 9.7) it’s become both even more powerful but also easier to use. I’m a relatively unsophisticated user, but I use it every day and couldn’t do my research without it.

The ‘lack of documentation’ has become much less true than it was: Tinderbox has a really helpful user base and there is now a whole set of how-to videos from a user who has charted his use from causal to expert, and there’s a lot of tips and tricks posts too.

(Apologies if this is beginning to sound a bit fan-boy).

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.
>