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jp · Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 1

Curio is perfect for the Mac. When will there a be version for the ipad?
I would like to know before I start to buy other things.

JP

dbawn · Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Posts: 1

I second this. Thinking of leaving Curio for one of the currently available apps out there already. Are there plans for an app soon?

george · Site Admin Joined: 14 Sep 2007 Posts: 1987

I'm sorry to lose you but we're concentrating on our Mac product right now. We have no specific timetables for an iPad release.

gregheinz · Joined: 01 Dec 2010 Posts: 5

George, I'm glad to hear that you'll continue to focus on Curio for Mac! It's disappointing when a great piece of Mac software goes stagnant because the developer changes their focus to developing for iPad. Keep up the good work!

McNitefly · Joined: 05 Apr 2009 Posts: 6

Hi George,

oh, that's really a pity that there will be no version for the iPhone and iPad soon.

Yes, of course it's also important not to loose sight of the main product.

But think nowadays it's really important to keep up with the spirit of the time ... and this whole cloud thing, and being able to access your information from everywhere, is exactly what people are looking for.

And I think currently you still have the chance to fill a gap on the market, because there is still no program that has done that job perfectly. Of cause there's a reason why - it's really difficult.
But I think more and more programs are entering that domain - didn't MacJournal just offer a first mobile version? And MobileNoter is also doing quite a good job on the PC.

Personally, I would like the main focus to be on the availability of the information on the road - preferably synced over MobileMe or dropbox, but WiFi would do the job, too.
It would not be so important for me to be able to change the content. It would be enough to add additional "spontaneous notes" that would sync one way from the mobile device to the mac. And all the other real sections, folders and idea spaces would sync one way from the mac to the mobile device.

This way you could also be sure that your important files to not get corrupted by some sync that went wrong.

Regarding the clarity of the content layout, there are some really nice examples on the market by now. I think that the iPhone apps "Mental Note" and "NoteMaster" do an amazing job regarding the visualisation of the order of the inherent folders and notes. That might be something to get inspired by when you start working on a first version of curio mobile - which I hope will come some day Smile

Anyway, George, thanks a lot for your good work, merry christmas & a happy new year Smile

Kind regards,

Tom

mnmcook · Joined: 31 May 2009 Posts: 196 Location: Pennsylvania

In the meantime, he is adding support for iPad app interoperability. Just saw his blog post about 7.1 adding MMAP support and iThoughtsHD, which I've been using on the iPad. Export of a detailed map from iThoughtsHD into Curio via OPML worked great. Still have to try the other way, but that plus other apps like Evernote does allow some interoperability with iPad. Would love a Curio on iPad too someday, but this helps.

bots · Joined: 23 Feb 2011 Posts: 11

bots · Joined: 23 Feb 2011 Posts: 11

Sorry - have overlooked that

dzec · Joined: 01 Nov 2008 Posts: 33

I've had a chance to use Curio with an interactive white board -- AWESOME!!!

It really brings the infinite white board metaphor and collaborative environment to fruition.

If only we had a version that would work on that somewhat smaller white board -- the iPad!!! Circus Ponies has ported their thing over, so can I anticipate that will happen with Curio George?

angelabooth · Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 6

FWIW, I'm pleased George is staying with the Mac version.

I intensely dislike developers jumping on the iPad/ iPhone platform. It means that their primary audience are left without updates for years on end. (Mentioning no names. Smile

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I've got Popplet on my iPad, and it's fair enough for what it does...

I do my WORK on my Macs, and that's where I want Curio. It's easy enough to create PDFs from the program for the mobile platform.

cheezenip · Joined: 19 Feb 2010 Posts: 2

I also would like to voice my support for George for spending the necessary time to improve Curio for Mac.

As a recent Mac owner (less that 1 1/2 year), I left the Windows world because I researched the available software alternatives and was amazed at the quality offerings in the Mac world. Devonthink and Curio played a part in my decision to switch to the Mac (and it's one of my arguements to my Windows buddies on why they should make the switch)

I'm planning to buy another Apple product this year and it's going to be a MacBook Pro and NOT the iPad.

jshadow007 · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 210

I think what I'd maybe like to see, for better iOS integration, is another export format, one that preserves file attachments a bit better. You can, right now, just open your project in Dropbox or another cloud file app, and see all of the files in your library...they are, however, nearly impossible to find, as they're in folders that have arbitrary numbers that mean little when you don't have Curio to find them for you!

Perhaps a sort of "file index" that you could export, along with a PDF of the project, to tell you where to find your files. (And perhaps a way to just export those files, rather than having people muck around in the project's files and potentially screwing them up.) Other than missing my files, and wishing there was a more automatic way of exporting PDFs of my project to, say, evernote, or dropbox for on the go viewing, I'm quite pleased with the way things work presently.

Zuercher · Joined: 23 Apr 2011 Posts: 1

Flex · Joined: 18 Sep 2009 Posts: 6

If Curio for iPad isn't on the immediate horizon, are there any fitting companion apps out there?

jshadow007 · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 210

Fitting companion apps? Depends entirely on what you're looking for--Curio's flexibility means that lots of people use it differently.

Use it mainly for idea generation and content creation, and want to be able to view that information on the go? Evernote is a great place to store exported PDFs of your curio projects. Curio's exported files are wonderful.

Like outlines/list figures? Want to make them on the go? OmniOutliner is a pretty fantastic product, and you can pretty easily export your lists from OO back into Curio as list figures or mind maps. It's also not all that difficult to export your list figures or mind maps and get them into OO. File management could use a little polishing (it's a bit of a chore to get your files actually onto the iPad) but it's a very new release, and the folks over at Omni are probably my second favorite Mac developers (after George, of course!), and they do a great job of adding features as they fix problems with each update.

As an aside, the Mac version of OO is pretty snazzy too, though it's long overdue for an update (though they're working on it). I got a copy for free when I bought my first PowerBook ages ago--Apple used to bundle a whole bunch of neat software with new Macs.

There's not a great way of viewing stored attachments on the go...though if you store your projects in dropbox, you can get at the files--it's just hard to find them in Curio's asset folders.

Evernote and OO are my go-to Curio companions on the iPad at the moment though.