Curio 24 Release Notes 📖

Improvements

Arrange > Convert Into > Index Card

Selected non-collection figures on the idea space can be transformed into index cards (one card per selected figure). If the converted figure is an asset figure (such as a file-backed text figure or image figure) then the default title for the index card is the underlying asset's file name at the time of the conversion.

Asset Figure Default Stylings

The handling of default styles for asset figures have been significantly refactored to address several concerns when displayed as icon mode or preview mode.

Asset figures displayed as icons will now share the same Document Icon default style. Images and asset figures displayed in preview mode will share the Image Figure default style, although you can still define your own default style for specific image subtypes: PDF Image and Equation. All of these default styles can be changed via the Format > Set As Default Style menu.

Now if you switch back and forth between icon and preview, via right-click Show As Icon or Show As Preview, the appropriate default styling can now be applied automatically. This fixes a long-standing issue where a preview styling was still applied even if switched to icon mode (and vice versa).

And, for advanced users, you can optionally configure Curio so that you can change the default icon and/or preview styling for specific file extensions.

More Improvements

• Custom App Icons
  

  We added a couple of new custom app icons: Climate Stripes and Pride.

• Automatic Project Backups
  

  Curio's automatic project backups can now backup projects located in any folder, not just those in the specified Projects folder.

• Markdown YAML Front Matter
  Curio's markdown renderer now ignores any YAML front matter at the beginning of your markdown.
• Master Markdown Style: line-height
  You can now specify a line height (in points) in your master markdown style file via line-height.
• Default Icon vs Preview State
  When you right-click on an asset figure, like a PDF figure, to toggle between icon and preview modes, Curio will now remember the new state as the default state when new files of that type are dragged in.
• Album Style Arrangement
  Saving album styles now includes the album row vs column arrangement setting. When applying a style, Curio will only force that arrangement on an empty album. If the album contains content then it won't override the arrangment. This is what we do for mind map arrangements, as well. That way you don't need dozens of identical styles that only differ in arrangement and you can apply stylings (colors, fonts, spacing, etc) without overriding the arrangement of an existing album.
• Automatic Evernote Tags
  The Evernote Assign Notebook Tag and Evernote Assign Note Tags advanced preferences are now off by default so you have more control over your tags.
• Option-Dragging Files Into Curio
  If Option-dragging files into Curio, including markdown files, the alert will indicate "as file alias" so it's more clear that an alias will be created.
• Smarter URL Titles
  When pasting or dragging in an URL since Curio is now opening the page to retrieve OpenGraph meta tags it will use the given og:title or the HTML page's title as the figure's title instead of just the URL.
• Smarter Image Export Filename
  Smarter default file name when exporting a figure as image instead of always showing Untitled.
• Styles with Captions
  If you save a new custom style for a figure with captions enabled then it will remember that state and enable captions when applying the style to other figures.
• Customizing Connected Lines
  You can now override the default Connected Line Width and Connected Line Scale via advanced preferences.
• Automatic Lock Files
  Now checking for ~/Library/CloudStorage/ for automatic lock file creation since all modern (macOS 12.3 Monterey and greater) sync services like iCloud, Dropbox, etc, have to use that folder as their root.
• Asset Figure Default Title Font
  Changed the default font for asset figures in icon mode from Gil Sans to Helvetica, so it matches the general text figure default.