Curio 27 Release Notes 📖

New Features

Full Height Organizer Sidebar

Curio's Organizer finally 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. (This took a surprising amount of work!)

One key impact of this change is the removal of the old Organizer header buttons. Instead, like in Keynote and Notes, Curio's sidebar toolbar button is now used to toggle on the display of specific sidebar items, like viewing sections or the filter.

Some tips: click directly on the toolbar button's icon to instantly toggle the sidebar, click its arrow to see the menu of display options, Option-click to instantly toggle sections, Shift-click to instantly toggle masters.

👉 If your toolbar has been customized then you may need to View > Customize Toolbar and re-drag the latest standard toolbar back to your toolbar to set it up with the new layout. You can then customize that refreshed toolbar.

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.

You can toggle the display of the flags column via the View > Show/Hide Organizer Meta Flags menu item.

Organizer Numbering Column

You 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.

You can toggle the display of the numbering column via the View > Show/Hide Organizer Numbering menu item.

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.

In addition, for compatibility with the new full height sidebar layout, described above, the Organizer filter has been repositioned to the bottom of the Organizer.

If the filter is not visible, press ⌥⌘F (Edit > Organizer Filter) and the filter will reveal itself, you can do a filter query, then press ⌥⌘F to clear and autohide the filter. Otherwise if the filter was already visible then ⌥⌘F simply brings focus to the filter's search field.

Organizer Smart Filters

Organizer filter queries can now be saved as dynamic Smart Filters, which constantly update themselves as you work in your project.

A Smart Filter can be saved only for the current project, or be made available in all projects. Alongside each Smart Filter is the count of found items, allowing you to see at a glance how many items match that criteria.

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.

In all the places where you can type a tag, Curio's autocompletion will match global cross project tags and local project tags, as well as tags in your global tag sets, all automatically.

You can even create a cross project tag on the fly by giving Curio a bit of a hint: a / prefix. In the tags inspector or tags mini inspector type /newtag to create a new cross platform tag whereas typing newtag would create a local project tag. In the status bar or as inline text in a text figure you enter tags as hashtags, so to create a new global tag you'd type #/newtag. After the new global tag is created you can use it as #newtag like normal.

In the tags inspector you can drag a local project tag to a cross project tag (or tag set) to promote it. All figures which were associated with the previously local tag are now associated with the global tag. Note you can't do the reverse, dragging a global tag to a local tag.

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 (you can also enable just using Tab/Shift-Tab even when editing if you wish).

Sleuth Perplexity AI and Perplexity LLaMa

The Sleuth window and Sleuth shelf sidebar now bundle the Perplexity AI and Perplexity LLaMa AI services.

Sleuth Claude AI

The Sleuth window and Sleuth shelf sidebar now bundle the Claude AI AI service.

Curio Referral Program

For those with a traditional license, not a Mac App Store subscription, you can now refer friends to Curio and once they make a purchase we can extend both your license and your friend's license with additional bonus months of free updates. More info via the new Curio > Referral Program menu or zengobi.com/referral.