Yes, you should and welcome!
Curio is a bit like DEVONthink for me in that you can own the software for 10 years and still be learning new features.
Another exampleā¦ documenting how to do things. Iām learning to sew and need to modify a shirt and looked up instructions and was able to pull in images, blog posts, quotes, and videos. Curio works really well for this!
Nice example and use case! Thanks
I like this example. When Iām putting together idea spaces like this it is helpful to use Curioās Sleuth feature ā the small browser-in-a-window that floats over an idea space. Find bits of things with Sleuth and drag them into the idea space.
This is an excellent use of Curio. I keep my notes on Tinderbox in ā¦Curio.
Iām Curiousā¦ where have folks landed with Curio? Iām feeling like itās a good piece of software for some things but Iām not gravitating towards it like I thought I would. Why is that?? I imagine this is exactly what happened before w/Curio.
I value it more, but am not using it much. I wonder what makes most sense given the various options for purchase. What are others leaning toward?
Iām using it occasionally, mostly as a whiteboard. This overlaps with my use of Drafts to some extent, but Curio is great if you have to manipulate things in a more visual way (to show things side by side, for example).
Originally, Iād hoped Curio could be a visual note-taking alternative for Tinderbox. But Obsidian is scratching my note-taking itch again.
My problem is that Curio overlaps with a lot of software I already have: iThoughts, Flying Logic, Obsidian, LiquidText, Tinderbox (which Iām not really using). Itās hard to know when/whether to use it.
Are you still using Tinderbox a lot, @beck. I can see that perhaps when it comes to in-depth working with notes, links, and metadata that Tinderbox is far more adept than Curio, and Curio would not come to mind as an option when starting a new project.
If I was just starting out on a Mac computer and I could only afford one piece of software: this would be it! Unfortunately for me I already have many other specialized software products. Curio does so many things well ā¦ but not as well, or as powerfully, as the more specialized products I use: e.g. iThoughts for mind mapping.
I purchased Curio many years ago and they offer an academic discount. I have their highest level (whatever that is called these days). At one point you could only get the SpreadPDF feature if you have the Pro version: and I absolutely needed that functionality. So thatās the ālevelā I decided on. Not sure you only get SpreadPDF with the highest version anymore. Thatās worth a check.
For me I also use it as a whiteboard. Thatās probably the best usage I have for it at the time being. But for folks who really have stuck with Curio and use if for lots of different things ā¦ it seems to be an absolute workhorse for them.
Iāve uninstalled Curio. I think itās a good app overall, but not for me because:
a) I prefer more specialized apps and Curio does too many things for my taste.
b) Curioās handles are too small for my liking. Same problem as Keynoteās handles.
c) Donāt have a compelling use case for it; for mindmapping I often use and prefer Muse, Mermaid, or Scappleās free trial for, and I can link to things from those apps for organizational purposes, which is pretty much all that Iāve realistically used Curio for. I know Curioās capable of a lot of other things but honestly those donāt really matter to me as I donāt have much of a use case for them.
d) Price is not justifiable for me because of c)
Iām using it for s set of household projects (installing lighting and power in a garage, building some outdoor structures and so on.) and itās ideal. I have an idea space template with figures for Design, Materials, How-tos (lots of those!), Tools and Equipment and Products. I populate the figures as I research the info and then use them to develop a building plan, which might be simple (fix light to ceiling; connect to existing light fitting) or complex (specifying component sizes and shapes, cutting and forming to shape, making joints, assembly, installation finishing).
I could do all that in other apps, but Curio provides a great platform for organising and managing, not to mention tracking time and costs.
I used to use Curio for work as a project manager (pandemic put an end to work); itās a great tool for collecting and collating project documents and extracting useful information. I didnāt use it for note taking - Tinderbox for that task - but I did use it as a central collection point for the notes
How did you add the border and text within the border? Is it within a pinboard?
Did you download those car images and added them to the idea space within the border? The look cool!
Ok, now Iām interested. In the past Iāve struggled to figure out anything I could do in Curio that I couldnāt do in OmniGraffle and OmniFocus, but integrating the workflow like that has me intrigued.
At the risk of opening up an older thread I wanted to say how useful I found the conversation here. As I mentioned in a different thread here I am doing a Post Grad in Systems thinking. Two things have emerged
- There is so much interconnected information that something like curio might help in visualistion and sorting it. I have downloaded it.
- Diagrammes. So many types of diagrammes, most with specific rules. So thank you to those that mentioned CMap. It is cracking. Does one type of diagramme really well. For others is it is mix of Excalidraw, Simple Mind - my mindmapper of choice, and a bit of scapple. For more complex stuff I may use Omnigraffle - but my heart sinks.
Oh and to @ibuys Your comments in my original thread are entirely accurate.