Dark Mode Support

By hugely popular request, Curio supports macOS Mojave's ultra-cool dark mode!

Curio's window chrome, toolbar, inspectors, shelf, Organizer and other interface elements will now change dynamically based on the the system’s dark mode setting.

Your idea space content will continue to follow the coloring and styles you’ve specified for your idea spaces and figures.

On a related note, in addition to dark mode support, there are dozens of other interface enhancements in Curio 13 including collapsible inspector shelf panels.

Figure Layers

Create and manage independent layers of figures that can be rearranged, hidden, or deleted without impacting other layers. This allows a more organized approach to idea space figure arrangements. For example...

• You’re a landscaper using Curio to plan a client’s new backyard. You create layers Site Plan, Evergreens, Deciduous, Shrubs, and Perennials each filled with figures, perhaps via stencils from your personal library.
• You’re a professor and you use layers to lay out Page Template, Problems, Answers, and Student Work. Distribute the project to your students and they can work in text figures already set up in their special layer without impacting the other layers, and peek at the answers if they need assistance.
• You’re a web designer mocking up a prototype website within Curio. By changing figures on a master idea space template’s Components layer, those changes propagate to each inherited idea space’s Components layer without touching any other layers.

Cross References

This incredibly powerful feature allows figures and idea spaces to support multiple typed cross-references to other figures, idea spaces, and even web locations, to encourage more accurate and organized research.

Use built-in types, such as Source or Rebuttal, or create and use custom types such as Persona and Scene.

Via the references adornment, or right-click context menu, easily jump back and forth between references and referrers.

With a click you can instantly jump to a figure’s references which Agree or Disagree with its argument, or see all items that reference a particular figure as a Source. You can also use the Search shelf to find all figures which include any reference or just those with a specific reference type, such as Agree.

Equation Editing

You can now create and edit equations using Curio!

Create and edit equations using LaTeX, AsciiMath, or MathML syntax. Previews are instantly rendered as you type your equation. Then the final equation is rendered in high quality PDF form instantly and securely via Zengobi’s server and inserted into your idea space.

Focus Mode

Focus on a specific branch in a mind map or list, or perhaps a particular figure on a busy idea space such as an album or text figure with a quick keypress. Instantly all other figures on the idea space will become transparent allowing you to concentrate on the task at hand.

If the selected figures are parent figures in a hierarchical collection such as a list or mind map then any existing or new child nodes inherit focus as well.

When you’re done, the same quick keypress turns off focus mode and everything is restored.

Markdown Block Quotes and Code Blocks

Curio’s markdown functionality now includes support for block quotes and code blocks!

New Album Arrangements

We’ve added two new album arrangements to our existing arrangement, shown here in the first image.

The second sample image demonstrates Curio’s new unpacked columns layout and the last image shows off our new row-based layout.

Done Date and Added Date

Independent of a figure’s due date, you can now set either manually or automatically a figure’s done date, marking the date the task was actually completed.

Figures also have an added date, which is set by Curio automatically when you add a figure to an idea space, but can be changed if you’re trying to mark a specific date of entry for note-taking or research purposes.

These new dates can be used for sorting in lists, mind maps, and stacks, plus used as search criteria in the Search shelf.

Plus Much More

• Faster access to figure stencils via the new Insert > Stencils menu.
• The Status shelf gains a new sorting popup, plus several display improvements.
• Lists now allow you to specify a start number.
• Take and import pictures from your iOS device directly into Curio thanks to macOS Continuity Camera support.
• Index cards can now autosize to their contents.
• Several new arrowheads have been added for entity relationship and crow’s foot notation diagrams.
• Figure enhancements include support for independently locking content, position, or both!
• More integrated Curiota support.
• Idea spaces pick up a new dotted grid style.
• Within idea spaces, you can now more easily insert space above or to the left.
• Major performance and technical improvements.
• Major code updates to better support Apple’s latest macOS releases.
• Plus dozens of other miscellaneous optimizations, tweaks, and fixes.
• View Curio 13’s release notes for all the details!