Feature Roundup

Curio has scores of features that you can use to maximize your productivity!

Here’s a central index of all of Curio’s key features with links to details elsewhere in the documentation, separated by our Standard and Professional editions.

Curio Standard

• Freeform idea space notebook environment.
• Rich text figures with support for bundled and personal figure styles.
• Embedded and aliased files, images, PDF’s, audio, videos, Mail messages, web links, and web views.
• Mind mapping with styles, arrangements, boundaries, date roll-ups.
• Lists from simple styled to complex hierarchical lists, numbered or bulleted.
• Albums of photos or documents, such as PDFs, with optional captions.
• Index cards for organizing ideas.
• Tables with headers and footers.
• Pinboards for freeform groupings.
• Stacks for Kanban-style task tracking.
• Flowcharting shapes for idea graphs, diagrams, and prototyping.
• Sticky lines with arrowhead styles; straight, curved, or orthogonal.
• Record audio and video notes, insert YouTube/Vimeo videos.
• Markdown rendering plus extensive markdown import and export.
• Idea space templates and figure stencils plus Stencils shelf for quick access.
• Figure meta including checkmarks; percent complete; tags; start, due, duration, done, plus smart date calculations; priorities; ratings; resources; notes; plus custom click actions.
• Inline #tags and @resources.
• Status bar to view/edit figure meta data.
• Search and Quick Find to find and jump to idea spaces and figures with simple or sophisticated queries.
• Resample image to optimize format, compression, dimensions, and/or DPI.
• Brush and pen sketching with support for iPad+Apple Pencil via Sidecar.
• Import/Export as text, image, PDF, HTML, CSV, OPML, and popular 3rd party mind map formats.
• Custom app icons, a fun new perk for sustainers to enjoy.
• Organizer sections for independent divisions in larger projects.
• Journal templates and section for auto-sorted daily meetings or classes.
• Integrated equation editor for LaTeX, AsciiMath, or MathML rendering.
• Spread PDF to spread the pages of a PDF across multiple idea spaces.
• PDF Mirror live export of your project.
• PDF Table of Contents in exports.
• Table of Contents list or mind map.
• Sync tasks to Calendar and Reminders.
• Focus mode to help you concentrate on specific figures or branches.
• Bundled appearance themes to change the look of your Curio interface.
• Sleuth window and Sleuth shelf for easy, one-click Internet research.
• Evernote integration for quick access to your notes in the cloud.
• TaskPaper import and export and OmniOutliner Pro OPML import.
• Automatic project backups.

Curio Professional

• Synced figure instances where copies of figures across a project share content and meta (transclusion).
• File-backed text figures display the content of embedded or aliased rich text or markdown files as text figures.
• Query-based collections allow you to create list, mind map, or stack collections that contain the dynamic results of a query, like due<2w or #active.
• Figure layers allow for more flexible layouts and arrangements.
• Cross references, with custom types like Agree and Evidence, can be created between figures, idea spaces, and web locations for more organized research.
• Status shelf for easy cross-project task tracking at a glance.
• Master figure styles and stencils, master idea space styles and templates, and master markdown styles for dynamic updates throughout a project.
• Presentation mode for group brainstorming sessions, plus Present in Window for remote window sharing.
• Custom variables for use throughout your projects.
• Custom figure data allows custom keys and formatted values to be associated with your project figures.
• Custom sharing actions to export to other apps via URL schemes.
• Custom appearance themes to fine-tune the look of your Curio interface.
• Custom project backup settings.
• External project library to support Spotlight searching of project assets.
• External repositories for sharing styles, stencils, and templates with colleagues.
• Regular expressions support when searching in the Search shelf.
• Project password for project security.