Maximize your productivity with Curio Professional which offers the following additional features over Curio Standard.
Status Shelf
Your Curio project notebooks may contain dozens or even hundreds of tasks and events.
But how can you quickly find what you need to be working on? Are you behind schedule? Were you supposed to begin something but are late?
With Curio 5, you can now instantly see the status of all your projects with the new Status shelf.
Color-coded graphs show you at-a-glance what needs to be started and what's due for the current project and for any projects belonging to a specified Project Center category. The color coding is identical to the colors used in the new Project Center and the new date adornment jewels so you can quickly find what you need to tackle.
And, instead of grouping by date, you can also group by a custom tag set, including the bundled GTD® tag set for serious Getting Things Done® power users. Instantly see what's active and what's in your next action or on hold queue.
Below the graphs, you'll find your list of action items. Simply click on an item and you'll swoop to that figure even if it's in another project.
Idea Space Templates
With Curio 5's new Idea Space Templates shelf, you can create a library of your favorite idea space styles.
Just drag the idea space you'd like to store as a template from the Organizer directly into the Idea Space Templates shelf. To use a template, select it from New toolbar popup button, or double-click on the templates within the Idea Space Templates shelf.
Create collections, such as "Favorites" and "Classes", to quickly organize your templates. A template can be categorized by more than one collection, and is easy to do with a simple right-click on the template. You can also sort the selected collection by idea space title, date added, or by most recently used.
You can also share idea space templates with colleagues or even send them to Zengobi for inclusion in the Curio Community Center.
Presentation Mode
Share your ideas in team brainstorming sessions using Curio's presentation mode capabilities.
With one click, your idea spaces are shown in full screen glory.
Your idea spaces can be scaled to fit within the screen, or they can remain full size and scroll bars will automatically appear helping you navigate around the page.
While the slideshow is running, you can click to highlight items or double-click to launch embedded videos or documents.
Transitions can be used to give you presentation some flair. You can set a default slideshow transition, or override the default for individual idea spaces using the Transitions inspector.
Curio supports many types of transitions including native, Core Image, and Quartz Composer. And you can even create and use your own custom Quartz Composer compositions!
Dossier
Curio Professional's Dossier feature helps you define the goals and constraints of your projects and keeps that information at your fingertips while you work.
When starting a new project, you need to have a clear understanding of your goals. What is the desired end result? What requirements must be met? Who is your target audience? What limitations are imposed on your project?
Answering questions like these can help you crystallize your objectives and jumpstart your problem solving. Having these answers readily available while you work can help keep you focused. But knowing what questions you need to ask yourself or your client can be a challenge.
Curio comes with a number of dossier templates to get you started including Creative Brief, Product Plan, Research Project, Video Production, Grant Proposal, Screenplay, Science Experiment, and more.
Each template contains a series of categorized questions designed to help you think about a specific type of project. Once added to your project, the list of questions and categories is fully customizable.
Project Encryption
Via the File > Set Password menu, you can set a password to control access to a project.
A password secures your project by encrypting its contents.
When a project is encrypted the following restrictions are imposed:
- You cannot see the status of the project through the Project Center or Status shelf (since that would reveal the contents of the "next due" item) until it has been loaded.
- You cannot use Quick Look in the Finder to see a preview or thumbnail of an encrypted project (since that would reveal its contents).
- You cannot use Spotlight to search for items in the project (since that would reveal its contents).
Internally, Curio is using openssl's AES-128 support to handle the encryption and decryption.
Note that any embedded assets, including documents, images, and audio and video recordings, will not be encrypted.
WARNING: If you forget your password, your data will be lost. Zengobi cannot decrypt the project for you.
If you need to encrypt everything in your Curio project — including all embedded assets — we'd recommend using either a volume protected with FileVault, or an encrypted disk image that you use to store your Curio projects (perhaps one disk image per client, for example). Alternatively, you can use an application such as Knox which can automate the creation and sizing of encrypted disk images.
Pro Sites for Sleuth
With Curio Pro, Sleuth is pre-bundled with professional search sites such as photo archives and font foundries, so you're immediately ready to get to work.
Simply enter a search term once into Sleuth, then select any of the pre-configured search sites to instantly see images or other items related to your search topic.
And, as in Curio Standard, you can customize the list of search sites and even build your own search site definitions to take advantage of sites not listed by default.