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| Free | Standard | ProProfessional | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notebook Environment | |||
| Project notebook environment with intuitive freeform idea spaces. | |||
| Maximum number of idea spaces per project notebook. | 5 max | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Rich text figures with support for bundled and custom figure styles. | |||
| Embedded and aliased files, images, PDF’s, audio, videos, Mail messages, web links, web preview cards, and live web views. | |||
| Markdown rendering with rich text, emoji, images, lists, block quotes, and code blocks. | |||
| Custom idea space templates and figure stencils plus a handy Stencils shelf. | |||
| Hierarchical Organizer sections for independent divisions in larger projects. | |||
| Integrated Journal for a project diary, meeting notes, or class notes. | |||
| Follow Figures and Bundle Figures for lightweight figure groupings. | |||
| Automatic project backups for peace of mind. | |||
| Bundled appearance themes to change the look of your Curio interface. | |||
| Custom app icons for sustainers to enjoy. | |||
| Collections | |||
| Mind mapping with left, right, top-down, and org chart arrangements; branch boundary shading; relationship lines; date calculations. | |||
| Lists from simple to-do’s to complex hierarchical lists, numbered or bulleted, checkboxes, level styles, date calculations. | |||
| Albums of photos or documents, such as PDFs, with optional captions. | |||
| Index cards for organizing your notes. | |||
| Tables with headers and footers. | |||
| Pinboards for freeform groupings. | |||
| Stacks for Kanban-style task tracking. | |||
| Table of Contents list or mind map. | |||
| Focus mode to help you concentrate on specific figures or branches. | |||
| Meta | |||
| Figure meta including checkmarks; percent complete; local project tags, cross project tags, and nested tag sets; start, due, duration, done, plus smart date calculations; priorities; ratings; resources; notes; custom click actions. | |||
| Inline #tags and @resources. | |||
| Organizer meta flags column. | |||
| Status bar to view and edit figure meta data. | |||
| Search and Quick Find to quickly find and jump to idea spaces and figures with simple or complex queries including regular expressions and boolean logic. | |||
| Query-based Organizer Filters, dynamic Smart Filters, and Pinned Organizer Items. | |||
| Multimedia and PDFs | |||
| Create and embed audio and video recordings. | |||
| Embed YouTube and Vimeo videos. | |||
| Resample image to optimize format, compression, dimensions, and/or DPI. | |||
| Brush and pen sketching with support for iPad+Apple Pencil via Sidecar. | |||
| Integrated equation editor for LaTeX, AsciiMath, or MathML rendering. | |||
| Spread PDF to spread the pages of a PDF across multiple idea spaces for inline annotations and note-taking alongside the PDF page. | |||
| Flowcharting | |||
| 36 flowcharting shapes for idea graphs, diagrams, and prototyping. | |||
| Sticky lines with several arrowhead styles; straight, curved, or orthogonal. | |||
| Research | |||
| Sleuth window and Sleuth sidebar shelf for integrated Internet research, including ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and Perplexity AI. | |||
| Import / Export | |||
| Import/export as text, image, PDF, HTML, CSV, OPML, and 3rd party mind map formats. | |||
| Extensive markdown export and import. | |||
| PDF Mirror live export of your project as a PDF to any specified location, including synced cloud services. | |||
| PDF Table of Contents in exports. | |||
| Sync tasks to Calendar & Reminders. | |||
| Local library shelf to easily list, find, preview, open, and drag in files anywhere on your Mac or within custom scope folders, including support for DEVONthink items. | |||
| Evernote integration for quick access to your notes in the cloud. | |||
| TaskPaper import and export and OmniOutliner Pro OPML import. | |||
| Works with Curiota: our free, always available menu bar app for quickly jotting down ideas, taking notes, or collecting files when inspiration strikes. | |||
| Power User Functionality | |||
| Synced figure instances where one or more copies of figures can share content and meta (transclusion) across an entire project. | |||
| File-backed text figures display the content of embedded or aliased rich text or markdown files, located anywhere on disk, as editable text figures. | |||
| 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. | |||
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. |
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| Master figure styles & stencils, master idea space styles & 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 figure data allows custom keys and formatted values to be associated with your project figures and available for search queries. | |||
| Custom variables for use throughout your project for dynamic text replacements. | |||
| Custom sharing actions to export data to other apps via 3rd party app 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. | |||
| Project password for project security. | |||