Curio 26 Release Notes 📖

Improvements

Export Images Separately

When exporting selected figures as PNG or JPG you have the option of exporting them as separate images such as “Result 1”, “Result 2”, “Result 3”. The string numbering format can be customized.

Copy As > Markdown Link

You can now copy a figure or Organizer item as a markdown link, of the form [title](link). You can customize how brackets within titles and parentheses within links are optionally escaped to support your preferred markdown renderer.

More Improvements

• Query Group None
  A collection figure query can now include group:none to force no grouping which is handy if you want to override the automatic grouping normally applied to list figure queries.
• ⇧⏯️ Key Shortcut
  You can now hold Shift and press the ⏯ key on your keyboard as a shortcut to the media bar's play/pause button. That modifier can be customized. We didn't want to override ⏯ with no modifier because that could interfere with your music player app.
• ⏎ Key Shortcut
  Selecting a figure and pressing the ⏎ (Return) key will attempt to, in order, (1) edit the selected figure's text or caption, (2) activate a selected video or PDF figure shown as preview, or (3) activate a live web view.
• ⇧⏎ Key Shortcut
  Same as the above but doesn't attempt to edit the title/caption so immediately attempts to activate or play the selected figure. Can also play an audio-only figure in icon mode (where just ⏎ would rename).
• ⎋ Key Shortcut
  Selecting a figure and pressing the ⎋ (Escape) key will attempt to, in order, (1) stop editing the selected figure's text or caption, (2) stop and deactivate a selected video, audio, PDF figure, or live web view (if the web site's not capturing keystrokes), or (3) cancel an active Search query.
• Edit Text
  In addition to the ⏎ and ⇧⏎ key shortcuts described above, there's a new handy Edit Text entry at the top of the right-click context menu for figures that could be tricky to edit such as a figure that's entirely a hyperlink, or a figure with an action, etc.
• Video Figure Previews
  Multiple instances of the same video figure now support proper per-instance previews thus allowing per-instance start times and poster images.
• Header and Footer Variables
  Support for additional variables: SectionTitle, RootSectionTitle, FolderTitle, RootFolderTitle.
• Organizer > Previous/Next Section
  New Organizer menu items to go to the previous or next section, which can be handy if you want to assigned keyboard shortcuts to these options via System Settings > Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Sleuth Cleanup
  Tweaked bundled Sleuth sites Urban Dictionary and Creative Commons (now called OpenVerse) and removed Fonts, FontHaus, MyFonts, SoundDogs, Answers, Smithsonian National Zoo, Greatest Quotations, Biography, Encyclopedia.
• Copy As > Hyperlink Includes Title
  You can tell Curio to not include the auto-generated title for a hyperlink so only the URL is placed on the clipboard.
• Export Rich List Uses Multi Tabs
  When you copy a hierarchical collection, like a list or mind map, as rich text Curio will now use one or more tabs to indicate the hierarchical level of each line item. In the past, Curio would always output a single tab and adjust each item's rich text ruler indention distance instead. This change can be reversed if you wish.
• Notes Font
  You can now set the default font and font size for new figure notes. Existing note formatting is not changed.
• Selection Glow Colors
  Documented the various selection glow colors in one spot for easier reference.
• Smarter Idea Graph Click Handling
  Connected idea graph figures are now created on the click release, the click down, assuming you don't move the mouse. That way you can hold Command and click-drag to rubber band-select figures without inadvertently creating a connected figure.
• Markdown Small Caps Style
  You can specify font-smallcaps:1 in your master markdown style file to render the font in small caps. Only a few fonts, like Avenir Next and SF Pro support true small caps. See the docs for more details.
• More Help Buttons
  The Library shelf tabs, the Status shelf, and the Sleuth window all now have help buttons which jump directly to the documentation explaining how to use the feature.