Curio: notes, ideas, mind map
macOS / Productivité
--- WHAT IS CURIO? ---
Curio is a flexible, freeform notebook for capturing notes, brainstorming ideas, collecting research, and organizing tasks and documents—together in one place.
--- WHY CURIO? ---
• Powerful when you need it: freeform idea spaces plus mind maps, tables, cards, pinboards, and more—built into one workflow. Ideal for power-users, researchers, writers, and planners.
• Local-first: your projects live on your Mac, so you can work offline and keep control of your data.
• No lock-in: export/print options and flexible import tools make it easy to keep your information usable.
--- THE CURIO WORKFLOW ---
• Create a Project to represent a real-world project you’re working on, then fill it with everything related to it: notes, images, PDFs, documents, web links, multimedia, and more.
• Arrange anything on Curio’s freeform idea spaces, or organize content into integrated collections like mind maps, lists, tables, index cards, albums, pinboards, stacks, and Kanban boards.
• Add metadata such as tags, flags, checkboxes, priorities, ratings, resources, and start/due dates for fast searching and task tracking.
• The key idea: your project’s information is stored, managed, and tracked inside a single project file in one well-integrated app—so you’re not juggling scattered files across multiple apps.
--- PRICING ---
Curio is free to download. Without a subscription you can explore the bundled Welcome to Curio project and create/edit your own projects with up to 5 idea spaces each. Larger projects open read-only for viewing, exporting, and printing.
When you’re ready to create larger projects, start a 2-week free trial from within Curio by subscribing to a Standard or Professional monthly or yearly plan.
Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase (or at the end of the trial). Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel in your Mac App Store account settings.
--- STANDARD VS. PROFESSIONAL ---
Both Standard and Professional include core features like:
• Freeform idea spaces and rich text, document, image, and PDF figures
• Markdown support, focus mode, mind maps, lists, tables, cards, albums, pinboards, stacks, and Kanban
• Shapes, lines, pens/brushes, equation editor, templates, and stencils
• Audio/video recording, search, tags, checklists, and date-based task tracking
• Import/export options, PDF exporting, powerful PDF importing (including Spread PDF), and Calendar/Reminders syncing
• Integrated research browser with support for AI services like ChatGPT and Gemini
Professional adds advanced capabilities such as:
• Mermaid diagrams and syntax-highlighted code blocks
• Synced figure instances, file-backed text figures, sync file figures, layers, and cross references
• Status task tracking, query-based collections, master styles/templates, and presentation mode
• Custom figure data, variables, sharing actions, appearance themes, regular expressions, project password, and more
--- CHECK IT OUT! ---
Join thousands of customers worldwide who use Curio for information gathering, brainstorming, and creative exploration. Download Curio and explore the bundled Welcome project, documentation, and sample gallery to see what’s possible.
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Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
Curio 33.0.1 fixes issues with markdown rendering, search performance, list item resize handles, and index card collapse widgets.
Curio 33 has lots of great new features including:
- Markdown Math Equations. One of our most popular requests is finally here! You can now enter math equations directly into Curio's markdown text figures! Block equations ($$⏎...⏎$$), inline equations (\(...\), $...$), and math code blocks (```math⏎...⏎```) are all supported.
- Equation Editor. The Insert > Equation editor with live preview has been completely rewritten to use our new MathJax subsystem. This means MathJax v3 (up from v2), additional bundled packages like mhchem and physics, support for offline rendering, accurate baseline calculations directly from the renderer, and no workarounds necessary to handle a mix of Retina and non-Retina monitors.
- Mermaid Figures [Pro]. Curio Pro now supports Mermaid, a popular and extensible diagramming format! You can drag in Mermaid files or Paste As > Mermaid Diagram to instantly see a rendered diagram. The generated PDF image has a transparent background and will resize, zoom, and print perfectly.
- Mermaid Markdown Code Blocks [Pro]. Curio Pro expands its markdown support with the ability to render Mermaid code blocks! You can construct your Mermaid code block with either backticks (```mermaid⏎...⏎```) or tildes (~~~mermaid⏎...⏎~~~).
- Mermaid Organizer Documents [Pro]. Curio Pro also supports Mermaid files in the Organizer!
- Markdown Language Code Blocks [Pro]. Curio Pro now supports language-specific syntax coloring within ```language⏎...⏎``` or ~~~language⏎...⏎~~~ code blocks, where language is the language of your code block. Curio uses the popular Highlight library for syntax coloring.
- Markdown Horizontal Rules. Curio now supports markdown horizontal rules via the CommonMark-standard ***, ---, or ___ syntax.
- Markdown Block Quotes and Callouts. Markdown block quotes now support callouts! Plus they have been significantly enhanced with support for padding, border, and inserted blank lines before/after the block.
Plus some major improvements:
- Smarter Importing. Major rewrite of import code to classify groups of similar dropped files so we can support a use for all similar files in this drop checkbox. If Option held when dropping, indicating aliases to files, then you can also choose the file-sync direction (bidirectional, export only, import only).
- Select Options. It's now much easier to select only figures or only scribbles. Just click and hold on the select tool to choose a specific option. No more magic modifier key incantations.
- Glow Options. Sometimes it's hard to tweak your figure borders and colors and make minor positioning adjustments when selection glows and grab handles are in the way. Now you can tap W to toggle off glow and ⇧W to toggle off handles making it easier to see what you're doing while the figures remain selected. Tap the keys again to toggle them back on. These are temporary overrides just for the current idea space viewing.
- Async URL Figure Meta and Previews. When dragging an URL into Curio all website meta data, including icon and preview images, are now loaded asynchronously (in the background) using a hybrid of Apple's native LinkPresentation framework plus a custom website OpenGraph description parser, instead of synchronously retrieving and parsing all meta info using custom code.
- Better Backups. If you've enabled Curio's built-in automatic backups, Curio will now store a zipped version of your project, instead of a simple copy, in the specified Backups folder.
Plus:
- A ton of requested feature enhancements.
- A bunch of bug fixes.
- Technical updates.
Some notes for upgraders:
- As the toolbar is getting a bit long for laptops it has been simplified with just an Insert button. Right-click on the toolbar and choose Customize Toolbar if you'd like to re-add specific collection buttons such as list, mind map, table, etc.
