Curio 11

Become enlightened.

Curio is an intuitive, freeform notebook environment with all the integrated tools you need to take notes, brainstorm ideas, collect research, and organize your tasks and documents. A single, incredibly powerful application where you can be more productive and focus on getting things done. And, with Curio 11, new tools and features are at your fingertips so you can truly master your productivity.

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Curio 11 requires macOS Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra.
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What can Curio do for you?

In Curio, create a project to represent a real-world project that you’re working on. Next fill it with everything related to that project including notes, images, PDF’s, documents, web links, multimedia, and much, much more.

You can place this information anywhere on Curio’s freeform idea spaces. Or use Curio’s integrated mind maps, lists, tables, index cards, albums, pinboards, and stacks to organize your data into powerful collections.

Anything placed into Curio can be associated with meta data such as tags, flags, checkboxes, priorities, ratings, resources, and start/due dates and durations for easy searching and task management.

The key point is that everything related to your project is stored, managed, and tracked within a single project file using a single, well-integrated application. You’re not juggling a mess of files scattered about your hard disk with a disparate suite of apps.

We invite you to join the thousands of customers around the world who use Curio for information gathering, brainstorming, and creative exploration. Download Curio and begin your 2-week trial with our bundled Welcome to Curio guided tour, documentation, and sample gallery to learn how you can be more productive with Curio.

Who Can Use Curio?

With thousands of customers we have an incredibly diverse audience.

Writers brainstorm plot and character development Students take notes, annotate handouts, and collect research Parents organize the next family vacation Scientists gather lab data results and images Web Developers collect ideas and create site prototypes Videographers plan shots and scenes Teachers demonstrate how to collect notes, images, and videos Product Managers gather competitor images, features, and notes Gardeners lay out the spring garden Project Leads track tasks, timelines, and feature checklists Programmers plan new product features, sketch prototypes, and track competitors Entrepreneurs mind map ideas and plan new companies Musicians develop song lyrics and collect inspirations Professors create and present lesson plans and assignments

What will you do with Curio?

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Integrated Collections

All included with Curio.

Mind Maps

Full-featured mind mapping with styles, arrangements, boundaries, and more.

Lists

From simple styled lists to complex hierarchical lists, numbered or bulleted.

Albums

Create styled collections of photos or documents with optional captions.

Index Cards

Index and note cards are perfect for organizing and shuffling ideas.

Tables

Styled tables with full support for row and column headers and footers.

Pinboards

Made for brainstorming sessions, collect ideas into freeform groupings.

Stacks

Track your tasks, Kanban-style, either manually or automatically sorted.

Curio Pricing

Choose the productivity features you need.

Core
Buy US$59.99
Core includes all of these great features:
  • Freeform notebook environment with our incredibly flexible place anything anywhere idea spaces
  • Rich text figures with support for bundled and personal figure styles
  • Documents and multimedia embedded and aliased files, images, PDF's, audio, videos, Mail messages, web links, and web views
  • Integrated collections including mind maps, lists, tables, index cards, albums, pinboards, and stacks
  • Flowcharting shapes for idea graphs, diagrams, and prototyping
  • Sticky lines with styles & arrowheads; straight, curved, or orthogonal
  • Record audio and video notes
  • Screen capture snapshots
  • Searchable meta checkmarks, percent complete, start/due/duration with date calculations, tags, priorities, ratings, resources, notes, actions
  • Import/Export as text, image, PDF, HTML, CSV, OPML, and popular 3rd party mind map formats
Standard
Buy US$99.99
Standard takes Core and adds:
  • Reusable templates and stencils, plus the Stencils shelf for quick access
  • Brushes and pens allow freeform sketching with pressure-sensitive graphics tablet support
  • Evernote integration for quick access to your notes in the cloud
  • Sleuth and the new Sleuth shelf for easy, one-click Internet research
  • Organizer sections for independent divisions in larger projects
  • Sync tasks to Calendar & Reminders
  • PDF mirror maintains an up-to-date, live export of your project in PDF form
  • Spread PDF instantly spreads the pages of a PDF across multiple idea spaces for notes and annotations
ProfessionalMost Popular!
Buy US$139.99
Academia US$89.99
Professional takes Standard and adds:
  • Master figure styles & stencils, master idea space styles & templates, for dynamic updates throughout a project
  • Status shelf for easy cross-project task tracking at a glance
  • Presentation mode with transitions, for quick sharing with a group
  • Advanced project options including project password, automatic project backups, external project library
  • External repositories for sharing styles, stencils, and templates with workplace colleagues
🚀 Upgrade Pricing
Existing customers can purchase a discounted upgrade for US$29.99 to US$109.99.

Customers who previously purchased Curio 8, 9, or 10 from our online store essentially have a Professional edition of Curio since all features are available to you in that release. With Curio 11, we now offer lower-priced editions and upgrades for those that don't need some of the more advanced features, like we had prior to Curio 8.

👥 Multiple Licenses
Volume buyers should contact us to learn about multi-user discounts.

Curio’s license agreement allows you to use a single license key on multiple machines, such as a home and work Mac. However, if you have multiple users that want to use Curio, then a discounted volume license should be purchased.

Download and Installation

Curio 11 requires macOS Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra.

  1. Start by downloading Curio then drag Curio from your browser’s Downloads folder to your Applications folder to install.
  2. Launch Curio to begin your 2-week trial with all Professional features fully enabled and available. Our bundled Welcome to Curio guided tour will automatically open showcasing Curio’s major features. It also includes the complete user documentation and a gorgeous sample gallery showing off what you can create in Curio.
  3. Purchase and enter a Professional, Standard, or Core license key based on the features you need and Curio’s interface will dynamically change to reflect that edition’s features. You can even start with one edition then move up to a more feature-rich edition by purchasing a crossgrade license.

Once the trial expires, Curio will enter into a simplified Reader mode, allowing you to continue using Curio for read-only browsing, printing, presenting, and exporting of Curio project files and contents. At any time you can still purchase and enter a license key to enable functionality. Friends and colleagues that don't own Curio can take advantage of Reader mode to view projects you share with them.

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Discounts on new licenses are available for qualifying staff, faculty, and students of accredited educational organizations.

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“I have yet to review a better, friendlier, or more powerful tool for taking on any project under the sun.”

— Macworld

“Taken together, Curio is one fast-loading, responsive package with fantastic potential and tons of flexibility.”

— MacLife

What’s New in Curio 11?

An amazing suite of new functionality so you can be even more productive.

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  1. Master Styles ›

    A figure or idea space style private to a project that, when changed, is reflected to all uses of the style throughout the project. For instance, tweak the coloring or font for a heading figure style and every use of that style is instantly updated.

  2. Master Figure Stencils ›

    Like master styles but for stencils. Create a figure stencil — perhaps for a website prototype or a gardening or floorplan element — and then modify attributes of that master stencil to instantly broadcast those changes everywhere.

  3. Master Idea Space Templates ›

    The ultimate. Create a master idea space template, styled as you wish with figure content including boilerplate items. Then use that master to create idea spaces. Change anything on a master and all uses refresh. You can even base a master on another master for nested inheritance.

  4. Automatic Backups ›

    Let Curio automatically handle periodic backups of your projects, as well as its support and personal repository folders.

  5. External Project Asset Library ›

    Curio can now store a project’s assets in an external folder which sits alongside the project file which allows Spotlight to search your project’s asset library.

  6. Sleuth Shelf ›

    A mini Sleuth readily accessible in the shelf for quickly finding images, definitions, or inspiration.

  7. Stencils Shelf ›

    You can now view and manage collection stencils in the Stencils shelf such as mind map and index card stencils. In addition, Pro users can see their master figure stencils.

  8. Organizer Trash ›

    A project Trash which holds deleted Organizer idea spaces and other items until you close the project which allows for quick and easy recovery from accidental deletions.

  9. Organizer Archive ›

    A special section in the Organizer for long-term storage of idea spaces, with optimized searching and memory management.

  10. Auto Layout ›

    Set figures so they dynamically move and resize themselves when the idea space dimensions change.

  11. Search Scope ›

    The Search shelf can now search within a specific section or section hierarchy, an idea space or idea space hierarchy, or the new Archive and Trash sections.

  12. Library Scope ›

    The Library shelf can now display assets within a specific section or section hierarchy, an idea space or idea space hierarchy, or the new Archive and Trash sections.

  1. New Project File Format ›

    Curio 11’s new project file format is more compact, more efficient, more robust, and more compatible with sync services such as Dropbox. Please note that older versions of Curio cannot open this new file format.

  2. Finder Tags for Project Categories ›

    Project categories that you create in Curio are now automatically mapped to Finder tags. This allows Finder searching and organization of categorized projects.

  3. Shape Enhancements ›

    Vastly improved multipoint orthogonal line drawing, plus better left/right arrow shapes.

  4. Text Enhancements ›

    New typeface popup for choosing a specific weight, a font size stepper for quicker size changes, and a handy capitalization popup that will transform text into various capitalization schemes right before rendering.

  5. Mind Map Enhancements ›

    Support for the new iThoughts v4 file format, plus support for MindNode’s zip file format.

  6. List Enhancements ›

    More flexible line spacing options, a new line prefix style, and smarter paste as list.

  7. Print Enhancements ›

    Change page orientation on the fly in the Print dialog and a new Fit with Auto Expand option for better scaling of large idea spaces.

  8. Work Schedule Enhancements ›

    Easier access to work schedule options plus new internationalization support for automatic date calculations.

  9. Project Milestone Enhancements ›

    Improved ability to search a project for changes based on specified project milestones.

  10. Hyperlink Enhancements ›

    Curio now supports more convenient in-project relative hyperlinks, plus other new hyperlink features.

  11. Versioned Support Folders ›

    New versioned application support and personal repository folders establishes a more robust and protected structure for major version upgrades.

  12. New Welcome Project and Docs ›

    Curio now includes a fantastic new Welcome to Curio project with a revised guided tour to Curio’s major features, the complete user manual, and sample gallery.

  13. Plus Much, Much More ›

    Numerous other improvements including code updates and updated 3rd party frameworks.

Check out our video gallery to see the new features in action!

View Curio 11’s detailed release notes ›

Purchase an upgrade to Curio 11 Pro, Standard, or Core

Upgrade prices range from US$29.99 to US$109.99.

Curio 11 requires macOS Yosemite, El Capitan, or Sierra.
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But wait...there’s more!

Some of the new features added since Curio 11’s initial release.

  • DEVONthink Pro Office ›

    Use Sleuth or the Sleuth shelf to search your DEVONthink Pro Office databases and drag links into your idea spaces.

  • Huge Performance Optimizations ›

    Several major improvements have been made, particularly for those power users with large projects. Plus several drawing improvments for faster rendering.

  • Sleuth: YouTube/Vimeo ›

    Use Sleuth or the Sleuth shelf to search YouTube or Vimeo and drag resulting videos directly into your idea space.

  • New Shortcuts ›

    New shortcuts to set focus, perform quicker text highlighting, bring a figure to the front, and more.

Plus oodles of other tweaks, fixes, and improvements!

Read the details in the Curio 11.1, Curio 11.2, and Curio 11.3 release notes.

Works with Curiota

Curiota is our free, out of the way, always available, menu bar app that allows you to quickly jot down ideas or take notes when inspiration strikes.

Curiota also supports macOS Services, the macOS Share button, Save PDF to Curiota, a browser bookmarklet, and even AppleScript so you can easily send information from anywhere into Curiota.

It can be used even if you don’t own Curio. However, combined with Curio you have a powerhouse combination since you can view, search, and access all your collected Curiota data from within Curio.

Learn more or download Curiota from the Apple Mac App Store.

Download Curiota from the Mac App Store

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