Curio is a feature-rich Mac utility created by the Zengobi company to help you complete a wide variety of tasks. You can use this program to keep track of your work ideas, make project plans, manage daily assignments, create quality presentations, and so much more.
The tool gives you access to various instructions and a very comprehensive help manual to help you get to know how Curio works and how to immediately complete tasks. You can choose between various project themes, insert different elements into your work (images, tables, mind maps, text, etc.), and many others.
In addition, Curio provides you with a built-in search tool called Sleuth that helps you immediately find and download images from the web. You can use the fetched content as a project element.
Once you finish polishing your project, you can either share it online, print it directly from the program's interface or export it to various file formats.
On the homepage of the developer, it says the product is perfect for writers, parents, students, web developers, teachers, etc. In my opinion, I don't think a student or a teacher would pay this much for a program just to make presentations or take notes. You can find cheaper solutions for completing basic tasks, like organizing your study material or putting together a decent presentation.
You can choose between 3 license types. The core is the least-feature-rich and the cheapest, while the Professional edition gives you access to a wide variety of advantages and costs twice as much as the aforementioned version.
So, it's up to you to decide, based on your budget and requirements, which is the perfect edition for you. They all bring you various useful features, are very simple to work with and offer you quality results.
v8.0 [Oct 12, 2012]
- Curio 8 requires OS X 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion!
- Curio 8 has a brand new file format. Once a project is converted to Curio 8 it cannot be opened with earlier versions of Curio!
- A number of features, like Dossier and Flashlight, have been removed from Curio 8.
- You will need to reboot after installing Curio 8 to completely uninstall the old CurioService helper app. You will also need to use our new bookmarklet JavaScript.New:
- New User interface: You'll love the simplified and modernized user interface with detachable inspector popovers. The entire UI was rebuilt and redesigned from scratch for ease of use.
- Insert Popover: A new, incredibly simple method for inserting figures, lists, mind maps, index cards, WebViews, new audio/video recordings, Google Docs, and much, much more.
- Insert YouTube and Vimeo Videos: Curio now makes it super easy to insert a streaming YouTube or Vimeo video directly into your idea space.
- Live PDF Views and Annotations: Edit PDF's live within the idea space with support for annotations and markup.
- Mind Map Boundaries: Curio mind maps now support colored boundary areas that enclose a parent figure and all of its children.
- Easier List, Mind Map, and Table Styling: The method for customizing collection styles is now much, much easier to manage and control.
- Calendar and Reminder Syncing: Calendar and Reminder syncing has been greatly improved with support for iCloud-based calendars and reminders, and sharing existing calendars.
- Made for Lion and Mountain Lion: Curio now requires Mac OS X 10.7.4 or above. Major portions of Curio have been completely rebuilt to take full advantage of the newest Apple OS X releases, including native full screen & autosave support.
- Retina Ready: High-resolution images for the user interface are included so Curio 8 looks gorgeous on retina displays.
- Easy Sharing: The new Share button is a fantastic, easy-to-use method for sharing your Curio creations with others.
- Organizer Documents: Drag text, image, and PDF files or weblinks directly to the Organizer allowing full-window viewing and editing. The Organizer therefore becomes a more versatile binder of notes and documents.
- Organizer Filter Bar: Quickly filter the Organizer based on last modified date, label, tag, or title.
- Idea Space Split View: With a single click you can now view more than one idea space at once either side-by-side or above-below.
- Figure Stacks: A new mouse-wheel technique makes flipping through dozens of index cards incredibly fast and easy.
- Faster and More Robust Code: Tons of internal refactoring and rewriting have made Curio faster, more optimized, and much more robust.
- More Robust File Format: No more monolithic asset library containing all data. Instead individual asset files provide a more robust solution, allows for Dropbox browsing of previews.
- Shared Repositories: A powerful, extensible repository system allows you to share templates, styles, stencils, color swatches, and Sleuth modules, through network shares or Dropbox.
- Evernote Enhancements: Curio has adopted Evernote's OAuth authentication, which will be required on November 1st, 2012 for all 3rd party access, and their latest API for more robust access.
- Improved Audio/Video Recording: Curio now uses Apple's new AV Foundation framework to provide robust audio and video recording features.
- Feature Set Clean-Up: Please note some features, like Dossier and Flashlight, have been removed to tidy Curio 8's feature set.
- Curio = Curio: No more Core, Standard, or Pro editions. This simplifies purchasing, support, and development, and guarantees you have all the great features at your fingertips.
