Previous Curio is <b>the</b> digital notebook for freeform information gathering, brainstorming, and creative exploration.~Curio allows you to effortlessly take notes, manage tasks, make photo collages, sketch with brushes & pens, and create beautifully styled lists, mind maps, tables, and index cards. All within the same amazingly intuitive integrated environment.<br /><br /><i>Take a tour by clicking the thumbnails, click the screenshot itself to zoom and fill the window.</i> Everything you need in a single application.~With Curio you have all the tools you need to collect and show your data with style. No other application provides you with an environment as rich and as intuitive as Curio.<br /><br />It's a perfect blend of productivity and creativity. It's <b>your</b> project notebook.~The beauty of Curio is that it doesn't lock you into any particular method of organization.<br /><br />Think about how you normally organize your notebook, whiteboard, or sketchbook and you can replicate that environment within Curio using our freeform idea spaces. Curio is brainstorming nirvana!~Within a single idea space, you can have any number of mind maps, tables, index cards, and lists, sitting alongside your other freeform images, notes, and documents.<br /><br />Curio provides extensive customizable style support, so you can quickly personalize the look and feel of your work. Mind maps? Oh yeah!~Curio supports radial, left, right, and org chart arrangements plus several line and branch color options. Pick a bundled mind map style or create your own. In Curio Pro, you can save boilerplate mind maps as templates so you can use them again and again.<br /><br />Drag anything into your mind map including images, movies, and documents from the Finder, Safari, or even from Curio's integrated Evernote shelf. A picture is a thousand words, and sometimes the best way to explore an idea is through a quick drawing.~When a keyboard just won't do, use Curio's pens and brushes to effortlessly sketch out your idea right on the idea space.<br /><br />Curio even supports pressure-sensitive sketching with graphic tablets when you really want to make an impression. Your <b>visual</b> task manager.~Track your to-do tasks easily using color-coded jewels in the idea space, Project Center, and, with Curio Pro, the Status shelf, plus automatic syncing with iCal.<br /><br />Unlike most other products, Curio can even automatically calculate start/due dates, completion percentages, and resources based on their list or mind map arrangment. Integrated dossiers help you define the project at hand.~To help you get started, select one of the bundled customizable dossier templates, including Creative Brief, Product Plan, and Research Project, and find all the questions you need to ask your client and yourself before diving into a project. And that's not all!~Integrated audio and video recording, Sleuth Internet research assistant, interactive WebViews with Google Docs support, presentation mode with custom transitions, Scrapbook service, screen grabber, Flashlight file searcher, multi-touch, spread PDF, and instant archives.<br /><br />Plus much, much more! Join the thousands of others who have supercharged their productivity with Curio.~Curio customers are an incredibly broad mix of students & professors, designers & film directors, engineers & scientists, writers & preachers, and everything in between. They find Curio's intuitive freeform interface helps them work smarter and think more creatively. And so will you.<br /><br />Download your trial of Curio and discover what you can accomplish! Next

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What’s New In Curio 7?

You’re going to love what we’ve added to Curio 7: Project sections and Organizer folders; left map, right map, and org chart mind map arrangements; project, idea space, and figure galleries with dozens of bundled styles, templates, & stencils; advanced tags with image and hotkey support; time support for start & due dates; hour & minute durations; automatic work week and work time rollups; collapsible index cards; customizable shadows with pinched and bulged shadow effects; independent text shadows; advanced 4-point axial and radial figure and idea space gradients; new Evernote features; network support for template, stencil, style, and Scrapbook repositories; and tons and tons of other enhancements and performance improvements.

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Curio Core!
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Which Curio Is Right For You?

Curio comes in several different editions to match your needs.

Curio Core
The essential foundation of the Curio line of products. An absolutely amazing and innovative Mac app for note taking and research gathering.
Curio Standard
Adds more tools and features for more sophisticated customers, including numerous helpers, project sections, brushes & pens, and greater meta data support.
Curio Professional
Adds all of our most advanced features such as presentation mode, idea space templates, figure stencils, and encryption.

Reviews and Sightings

Video: a scientist shows how he uses Curio as an amazing lab notebook AppStorm: Curio is the ultimate project workshop and previews Curio 7
M.A.C.S. gives Curio 7 5-Clicks, their highest rating! Macgasm calls Curio a powerhouse application for creative people
A pretty darn sweet review at TUAW NYTimes: "Zengobi Curio Does Everything"
TodaysTopTech says he cannot live without Curio and gives it a gold award Curio is an ambitious product according to Macworld
Curio is a creativity powerhouse at TotalApps A wonderful write-up at jkOnTheRun
Curio is a giant creative application must-have at OliverNielsen.com Curio is a top recommended program at M2volt
Thoughts and Things says "if you have a Mac, get Curio" George discussing the Curio-Evernote integration on YouTube
A note about the Curio-Evernote integration at Creativityist Madhavi is in love with Curio at A Writer's Blog
Curio gets 5 stars at The MacMania Podcast Curio mapping a digital mind at Smoking Apples
Curio helps rough out magazine design at Citysnaps A nice review of Curio at Creativityist
A super review of Curio on MacSparky A quick overview at The Mind Mapping Software blog