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[mnmcook]

A few ideas to consider:

Allow scope control on Search beyond a single project -- how about a search option to expand the scope across all projects in a designated project Category (e.g. all "Work" projects or all "Actively Tracked" projects)? I'm finding myself wishing or this option already.

Drag and drop an idea space in a currently open project onto a project listed in the Project Organizer section (may prompt where to put it there or just put it at the top for later reorg when you open that project). Convenience for reorganization among projects.

Post to Evernote. Nice ability to ingest/search etc already. What about a way to take a Curio idea space and put it into an Evernote notebook? It would get synced to Evernote to push it up as a new note. Then you have full two way communication between the two products. This might be another way to help get access to Curio-created information on the iPad.

[mnmcook]

Forgot two others:

Really would be nice to have more keyboard navigation options when entering information into a MindMap. If you are trying to quickly sketch one out while someone is talking, you want to get the essence of what they are saying down quickly without interruption or delay. Otherwise you'll miss something they say. If you've ever used other MindMapping products, most of them give you a keyboard shortcut to navigate up/down the node tree or across the nodes at a given level. There may be such for Curio MM, but if so I could find them. I just tried to quickly sketch out MM for about 100 projects in a multiday review and I can tell you without those keyboard shortcuts I couldn't keep up as I'd like to. Of course I can always go back and add other info as you would anyway with a MM, but getting more data into the MM in the first place would be great (and likely expected for users that are used to other MM products).

Tables look great! This suggestion I admit is minor too, but it's a bit nonintuitive to make this work currently. If I make a column of hyperlinks for reference in a table, and later refer back to the table, there isn't a rapid way to just click on the visible hyperlink and have it open the URL. Only way I've figured out so far is click on the table to make it active, then click on the cell to make it active, then highlight the text of the hyperlink, then right click and select Open URL from the context menu. Now maybe there is another way to put in the hyperlink than just entering the "http://..." web address that makes a true hyperlink, but that surely is a common way to enter them. Contrast this method with the ease of doubleclicking a table entry that has an excel file in it. It immediately opens up the file in the cell in Excel.

[george]

Regarding mind map keyboard navigation: if you have a node selected then you can just use the arrow keys to go up and down between siblings or lef and right between parents and children. Will that work?

Regarding the table URLs: it sounds like you have a bunch of text figures which each contain URLs. You should still be able to get there a little quicker though. Double-clicking on the cell should immediately zip you down to editing the cell. Then click on the URL itself to go to the URL.

However, even simpler would be using URL asset figures instead of text figures. Just drag-and-drop an URL into a table cell then that should create an URL asset figure which will simply open in the browser if double-clicked.

[mnmcook]

Thanks George I'll try those suggestions.