Curiota is intended to help you keep notes and organize files. Its main advantage is that it uses an open database format to store all the collected information, which makes it extremely compatible with many other tools.
The application can run unobtrusively from the Menu Bar, so it will not disturb you while you are doing something else. In fact, it integrates so perfectly into your workflow that you can simply drag a text snippet or a file and drop it onto its icon to store in your database. Moreover, you can set the tool to start along with the system.
Curiota organizes notes in collections. In this respect, you can create as many as you want to. The app requires picking a location for them, and, it is good to hear that not only local directories but also Cloud folders are supported (iCloud and Dropbox).
A note can contain not only text but also images, hyperlinks and files. To edit your notes, there is a built-in editor. Although it is good that rich-text formatting is supported, you need to learn a series of keyboard shortcuts to use this feature as there are no buttons to help you. Files, in turn, can be equally organized into folders, and they can be of any type.
Regrettably, Curiota’s built-in system to organize and find contents is not very friendly, which is why its integration with Spotlight is very appreciated. So, to find anything stored in Curiota, you can use Spotlight’s search box.
All in all, Curiota is a great tool that lets you store anything you may need for that project you are working on. In this regard, it is great that it also integrates with Curio, a powerful tool by the same developer. It is also good news that it supports scripting, which allows you to automate some operations a little further. Fortunately, this product is free to get from the Mac Store.
v3.4 [Nov 4, 2022]
Better Support for Plain Text File Notes (Including Markdown)
- By default Curiota supports rich text (rtf, rtfd) documents for its notes.
- This release adds much better plain text note functionality.
- You can now create a Curiota note and give it a title which includes a plain text extension, like "Class Notes.md" or "Snippets.m" or "Vacation.txt", etc.
- The resulting note file will have that same specified name.
- Curiota will recognize that this is a plain text note and configure its editor accordingly (no fonts, colors, bold, etc).
- You can rename the file via the note editor's title field.
- You can Option-drag these note files from Curiota's Library directly into Curio Pro (or use Curio's Local library shelf) to create a synced file-backed text figure so that changes made in either app will sync to the other!
Curiota Share Extension Improvements
- The Curiota Share extension now supports an optional title field.
- As described above, if you specify a title with a plain text file extension, like "Notes.md", then the resulting note will be stored as plain text, instead of rich text, with that given file name.
Other Changes
- Now bundling the latest MASShortcut (way up from 2.3.2) for better shortcut reliability.
