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EDITOR NOTES
The 'Download Now' link yields the Pro version, Standard version ($99) available in 'Related Links'.
DESCRIPTION
Curio is the premier brainstorming and project management application designed to promote visual thinking.
Using Curio's innovative freeform interface and tools, you can intuitively gather, associate, and recall your ideas, while easily managing all the notes and documents associated with your project.
The heart of Curio is the idea space. Think of idea spaces as your whiteboard, notebook, and sketchpad all wrapped up into one.
Within a Curio project, you can create an unlimited number of idea spaces where you can place anything anywhere on the page. Brainstorm or organize your notes with freeform collages of text, images, URLs, documents, Mail messages, movies, and sounds. Give the idea space a note paper or graph paper style, or perhaps a linen paper texture. This is your idea space, with your notes and ideas. Make it the way you want it to look.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 6.2:
- Curved and Orthogonal Lines.
- On-The-Fly Multipoint Lines.
- Plus Index Card Enhancements!
- Fixed several issues where figure styles were being reset to default style in tables, lists, mind maps, and index cards.
- We're now making sure all lines drawn in tables, etc, are nice and sharply defined.
- Curio is now much, much, much more memory efficient when printing or exporting to PDF.
- Fixed a bug where lines couldn't stick to specific positions on multipoint lines.
- Fixed problems where tag use counts could become out of sync thereby showing an inappropriately large number of active uses for a specific project tag (in File > Project Properties > Tags).
- When sending a stencil or idea space template to a friend to Zengobi we're now stripping tags from those items before sending.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
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| Curio User Reviews (31 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 14 2008 |
ESPIRIDION At least they're consistent. With each version, their pricing/upgrade fees are absurd. Nice program, but I'm not paying for another upgrade.
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| Aug 13 2008 |
LEV Here we go again. Eight or nine months ago I shelled out for an expensive upgrade to v4. Now a whole lot of "pro" features have been drifted down to cheaper versions but Zengobi want to take another gouge out of me to upgrade to v5. Guys: 4.2.4 to 5.0 in one jump is pretty steep. You can only skin a cat so many times...
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| Sep 10 2007 |
As I said before I paid for a Pro license 9 months ago ( $149 ) now an upgrade fee of $69 ? $70 for an upgrade ? These guys are sharks ! Last version 3.2.2 now a huge jump to 4.0. No '3.5' etc... just a massive jump and a price to match. Why not try a PR initiative to gain a little community respect - Have a barn sale and reduce the upgrade fee for registered users by 50% for a certain period - Send out a few good-will emails to registered users. Spread a little happiness - Try loosing the 'company full of sharks' and don't listen to users reputation.
(Version 4.0.4) | |
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| Sep 16 2009 |
KORM If the new features are worth the upgrade fee, pay it. If not, don't pay it.
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| Oct 13 2009 |
ZX81 You mean that opinions are not allowed?
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| Nov 19 2008 |
N2ITV42 Can't say enough about this program - does it all for the creative professional. The price does seem high at first, but you get over that once it becomes a staple of your workflow
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| Oct 5 2008 |
MAR6473 I've been using Curio for a couple of months now. Once you start using it you realize what a unique program it is. I looked at it before but the price turned me off right away. $149 seems like a lot when I was already using another note taking app that cost $35 for collecting info and managing research projects. Beyond being able to collect a lot of information and organize it, it lets you spread it out, move it around, interconnect it, etc... It's sort of like being able to spread all your bits of info out onto a big table to get a good look at everything. The mind mapping feature does everything I need and is great for organizing your information (There are other mind mapping apps that have more features than Curio. You just have to try it to see if it does everything you want. For me, there is a lot of strength in Curio's ability to do a bunch of thing within one document). Omnioutliner and Omnigraffle are fantastic programs but I can do everything I used to do in both of them in Curio. The developers are very responsive which has reassured my confidence in the app. For project organization, research, and collecting information on a given subject, it does everything I need. If you need advanced word processing tools, you can embed Word or Pages documents into your Curio project. They give you an extended 60 day trial so it gives you enough time to really try it out. If you just want to mind map, there are apps that just do that, if you just want something to dump bits of info into to collect over time, Journler is great. But, for general project and research management with a lot of flexibility that really helps you get organized, Curio really stands out.
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| Aug 31 2007 |
MMUECK Like other posters here, I too own the previous pro version and balked at the upgrade price to the extent that I've gone off looking at other products. I feel like a fish that nibbled on the bait, got the hook stuck in my lip and then the developer gave the line one god almighty yank and lost his catch just like that...
(Version 4.0.3) | |
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| Aug 24 2007 |
MACBLISS I too think this is a very nice piece of software, and a very worth upgrade for all the new features. However, I must echo the previous posters comments, that the upgrade pricing seems a bit steep. I feel $39.00 is reasonable, perhaps even $49, but $69 is not an easy sell I would imagine. I am not ready to jump on it at that price. For $69 you can get a new full license for NoteTaker. It does a lot of what Curio does, without the drawing and mind-mapping features, and is not as fun or "creative" probably for most people. However, it is very versatile and the price is right, I think. I would think that the creative designers of Curio would realize that the "creative people" that Curio seems to have been made for, are often the ones who need the pricing break more than anyone. They are often more concerned with following their passions than making money. A little less of an upgrade price, and you may get a lot more upgraders too.
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| Sep 14 2009 |
XPLICIT Dear Curio Developer(s), "CMD " is for switching the application's windows. It's a default, pre-set shortcut. You shouldn't assign another command.
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 | Sep 22 2009 |
JUST A USER I did pay for the update, I think it is fair to pay for something that really does work and what a developer actually spent some time, thinking and energy on. Curio is feature-rich software that can be used for a great deal of different stuff and I had no major bug issues so far. The indvidual sub-functions, like mind-mapping, are not as feature rich as in dedicated software, but that is not to be expected either. They DO work great as is and DO have all the important import and export options. Hope that program will be going strong for a long time!
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