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Overview

Curio is an intuitive, powerful, freeform notebook environment for macOS with all the integrated tools you need to take notes, brainstorm ideas, collect research, and organize your tasks and documents.

More information about Curio can be found here.

What’s New in Curio 27

The detailed Curio 27 release notes are here.

• Full Height Organizer Sidebar. Curio's Organizer abides by Apple's sidebar guidelines with a true, full height sidebar extending up into the title bar area, matching all of Apple's other apps.
• Organizer Meta Flags Column. A new meta flags column will automatically appear on the right-side of the Organizer if you associate certain meta attributes with your Organizer items including label color, notes, and tags (with images). Clicking a flag will allow you to change the label, edit notes, or change the tag association.
• Organizer Numbering Column. ou can reveal an Organizer column which shows the numbering of the items in the Organizer. This feature, plus the Organizer > Go to Organizer Item Number menu item, is useful when you would like others to jump to a specific idea space or Organizer item in a shared project, for example.
• Organizer Filter Rewrite. The Organizer filter panel has been completely rewritten to adopt the same query language and internal query engine used by the Search shelf and Quick Find popover. This permits much more sophisticated queries including date ranges, boolean logic, and other advanced query parameters.
• Organizer Smart Filters. Organizer filter queries can now be saved as dynamic Smart Filters, which constantly update themselves as you work in your project.
• Pinned Organizer Items. You can pin an Organizer item via its right-click context menu so it will appear in the bundled Pinned Smart Filter. Pinned is always displayed at the very top of the list of Smart Filters so you can quickly see and access your pinned idea spaces and other Organizer items.
• Organizer Title ⇄ Figure Text. Use the Info inspector to give a text figure an identifier of {%IdeaSpaceTitle} and that figure's content and the idea space's Organizer title will automatically stay in sync regardless of which one you change.
• Cross Project Tags. Curio now supports global, cross project tags. These look like local project tags but can be used across all your projects. While tags in tag sets have always been cross project, like #gtd/action, this new feature allows you to create global tags, like #personal and #vacation, that you can use across your projects without sticking them in custom tag sets.
• Figure Placeholder Text. Using the text inspector, you can now enter placeholder text for a text figure which is displayed if the content of the figure is empty.
• Figure Navigation via Tab Key. If a figure is selected, you can now use the Tab or Shift-Tab keys to select the next or previous figure on the idea space. If editing a figure, you can press Control-Tab and Control-Shift-Tab to jump between editable figures.
• Sleuth Perplexity AI, Perplexity LLaMa, and Claude AI. The Sleuth window and Sleuth shelf sidebar now include Perplexity and Claude's AI sites so you can use their extraordinarily powerful research assistants from within the Curio environment.
• Feature improvements based on customer feedback.
• Fixes for reported issues.
• Technical improvements and performance optimizations.

The Curio Workflow

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.

And your project can include a daily journal for meetings or class notes, all neatly organized and sorted automatically.

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.

Requirements

Curio 27 is built as a universal app and runs on macOS 12 Monterey through macOS 14 Sonoma on Apple silicon or Intel.

Availability

Curio is available as a traditional license with one year of free major and minor updates when purchased from the Zengobi website. It is also available either by monthly or yearly subscription from the Mac App Store.

Traditional License Pricing

Curio is available here as a traditional license from Zengobi’s website.

• Curio 27 Professional is $119.99 ($89.99 for academia); upgrades are $79.99 ($59.99 for academia).
• Curio 27 Standard is $89.99 ($69.99 for academia); upgrades are $59.99 ($49.99 for academia).

All prices listed are US dollar. Crossgrades, discounted upgrades and multi-user volume discounts are also available. Information detailing what features are available in the Professional and Standard editions can be found here.

Includes One Year of Free Updates

All traditional new and renewal licenses include one year of free major and minor updates including new features, enhancements, and macOS compatibility updates. At any time after that period of free updates ends, an upgrade license can be purchased and Curio will update itself to the latest release and resume another year of free updates.

Trials

Launching Curio will begin a 2 week trial with all Professional features fully enabled and includes the bundled Welcome to Curio project which automatically opens on first launch and provides a guided tour and sample gallery.

If the trial expires without purchasing a license, Curio can be used with the Standard feature set to explore the Welcome to Curio project and to create and edit your own projects each with up to 5 idea spaces. Larger projects are opened read-only for viewing, exporting, and printing.

Frequently Asked Questions

See our Curio Traditional Licenses FAQ for more details.

Subscription Pricing

Curio is available here as a subscription from Apple’s Mac App Store.

• Curio Professional subscription is $7 per month billed annually or $8 billed monthly.
• Curio Standard subscription is $5 per month billed annually or $6 billed monthly.

All prices listed are US dollar. Information detailing what features are available in the Professional and Standard editions can be found here.

Trials

Without a subscription you can use Curio with the Standard feature set to explore the bundled Welcome to Curio project, which opens automatically on first launch, and to create and edit your own projects each with up to 5 idea spaces. Larger projects are opened read-only for viewing, exporting, and printing.

Then, when you’re ready to dive in and create larger projects or work with Professional’s features, start a 2 week free trial by subscribing to a Standard or Professional monthly or yearly plan from within Curio, which instantly unlocks the appropriate features.

If the subscription expires without renewal, Curio can be used with the Standard feature set to explore the Welcome to Curio project and to create and edit your own projects each with up to 5 idea spaces. Larger projects are opened read-only for viewing, exporting, and printing.

Updates

All future major and minor updates are included and will be installed behind the scenes automatically and securely by macOS.

Frequently Asked Questions

See our Curio Subscriptions FAQ for more details.

Contact

Please contact us if you have any questions.