Curio 4

Introducing Curio 4

A completely unique and innovative
approach to visual thinking and
creative brainstorming.

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Curio is the premier note taking, mind mapping, brainstorming, and project management application designed to promote visual thinking within its innovative virtual whiteboard environment.

With visual thinking, you can intuitively gather, associate, and recall your notes, ideas, and documents naturally and visually.

Curio encourages this with an integrated collection of tools and functionality that's unlike any other application solution. With Curio, you'll be more effective and efficient when working on your projects.

"If you find notebooks, outliners, and information managers too confining, Curio will give your imagination the space to run free."
- Macworld

Enjoy Boundless Creativity

Freeform Idea Spaces 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, web links, documents, Mail messages, movies, and sounds.

Give the idea space a cool corkboard background, a note paper or graph paper grid style, or perhaps a linen paper texture. Each idea space can be individualized to your liking — this is your notebook!

Welcome To Brainstorming Nirvana

Mind Map Sample Curio's idea spaces can contain more than just a freeform collage of ideas and thoughts. You can add organized collections of notes and tasks with Curio's integrated mind map and hierarchical list support.

Mind Map In fact, within a single idea space, you can have any number of mind maps and lists, sitting alongside your other freeform notes and documents. Both types of collections support easily customizable styles, so you can quickly personalize their look and feel. With one click, turn a list into a checklist, or make your mind map look like it was drawn on a chalkboard. And, it's easy to create and share your own styles with others through the Curio Community Center.

Let Your Right Brain Come Alive

Pens and Brushes Curio's integrated pens and brushes allow you to quickly sketch out an idea without needing to launch and wrestle with Photoshop. Think of it as a turbo-charged cocktail napkin when a keyboard just won't do. And, if you use a tablet, you'll quickly notice that many of the brushes are pressure-senstive, changing their color saturation and brush size on-the-fly.

Easily Manage Your Tasks And Goals

Project Management All Curio figures support advanced project management features such as an associated start date, due date, one or more resources, duration, priority, rating, and percentage complete. If within a mind map or list, Curio can even automatically roll-up dates, completion percentages, and resources based on their hierarchical ordering.

Never Lose Another Idea Or Document

Advanced Searching For advanced searching, bring up Curio's amazing Search shelf where you can quickly and easily search on text, tags, ratings, flags, asset types, modification dates, tags, priority, start and due dates, and task resources. Even search within asset contents!

You can also take advantage of Curio's customizable tags and tag sets to organize your tasks using GTD®-style techniques. With a click, you can easily find all active or on hold actions.

Curio Is There To Help You

Dossier Okay. A new assignment, a blank piece of paper... how do you begin? Let Curio's dossiers be your guide. Select one of the bundled 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. All questions can be easily customized and reused in future projects, plus completed dossiers can be shared with other members of your team.

The Next Generation Hunter Gatherer

Sleuth Searching for inspiration? With Sleuth, Curio gives you a tireless Internet research assistant. Type in a single search phrase and Sleuth will seek out fonts, photo archives, songs, definitions, rhymes, and translations.

Snippets Curio's Snippets service allows you to instantly grab a snippet of text, an image, or file while outside of Curio. You can also print from any application as PDF directly into Snippets.

Bookmarklet Drag our Curio bookmarklet to your browser's bookmark bar and take instant web archives of most web sites directly into Snippets.

Recording Ditch the keyboard and enjoy Curio's integrated audio and video recorder. Handy for recording a meeting or class lecture, and at-the-ready when you need to make a quick annotation.

Snapshot Use Curio's handy one-click snapshotter to grab screen or region snapshots directly into Curio.

Flashlight Curio's Flashlight takes advantage of Spotlight to help you find files on your hard disk given search text, file kind, date modified, and whether to search within the file's contents. Instantly find all Photoshop files modified in the past week, or all Word documents with the word "budget" in the title.

"This may qualify as the most creative and graceful program you install on your Mac this year."
- MacUser UK

Juggle Multiple Projects With Ease

Project Center You're a designer juggling ten projects, or a student with a dozens of classes and assignments. And, yes, you're pulling your hair out from the stress. Find serenity using Curio's Project Center. Create custom categories such as "2008 Design Projects", or "Senior Year Classes". Then associate your projects with one or more categories. One click access to any project!

Get Feedback From Others

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.

Export all or selected idea spaces as a PDF document, a series of TIFF, JPG, or PNG images, or a "WYSIWYG" HTML project with clickable assets. You can even export directly to iPhoto for quick photocasting or iPod syncing. Or take advantage of Curio's .Mac publishing to post your project in HTML form directly onto your iDisk. You can also export a list or mind map as an OPML file for importing into another application.

Create Instant Archives So You Can Relax

At any time, projects can be bundled up for instant archiving where all aliased project assets are copied and embedded within the single Curio project file. You now have one file which contains your entire project including all notes, documents, Mail messages, sketches, and more. Back it up to a CD or server, and breathe a sigh of relief that you can retrieve everything to do with your project whenever you need it.

Curio Standard includes:$99
  • Unlimited freeform idea spaces
  • Mind mapping
  • Outlines and lists
  • Flowcharting shapes
  • Integrated asset library
  • Notepaper styles
  • Pressure-sensitive sketching
  • Project Center
  • Sleuth
  • Snippets
  • Flashlight
  • Advanced searching
  • Flags, checkboxes, ratings
  • Start/due dates, priority, tags
  • Audio/video recording
  • Figure actions
  • Image, HTML, .Mac, PDF, iPhoto, and OPML exporting
Curio Pro includes Curio Standard's features plus:$149 ($69 academia)
  • Presentation mode
  • Dossier
  • Pro Dossier templates such as creative brief
  • Instant template documents
  • Cross-project library Scrapbook
  • AppleScript figure actions
  • Customizable Sleuth
  • Pro Sleuth sites such as photo archives
  • Full screen mode
  • Mini mode
  • Project sharing via email
  • Academic and volume discounting available
Curio K-12 includes Curio Pro's features plus:$69 academia only
  • Substitutes school-appropriate Sleuth sites
  • Substitutes school-appropriate Dossier templates
  • Customizable Sleuth profanity filter with 200 built-in phrases
  • Customizable restrictions preferences
  • This edition is only for sale to students and teachers
Curio runs on Leopard

Curio Version 4.2.4 — Release Notes — License Agreement — Mac OS X 10.4 or above is required. Curio runs great on Leopard!

Curio 4.2.4 is a free upgrade for existing Curio 4 customers. Curio 1.x, 2.x, and 3.x customers can upgrade to Curio 4 at discounted prices, check the online store for details.

All Curio editions will run initially as a free, full-featured trial for 15 days. The trial becomes the full version after buying and entering a license key from our store. If you need more time, a 60-day extended trial is also available.

Prices listed are estimated retail prices. They do not include sales tax or shipping charges, are subject to change, and are listed in US dollars.