Curio

“Lists in compositions, side by side with text boxes, like dogs and cats living together without being a sign of the end times!

Right now, I'm planning a story with short lists of what happens in each subdivision of the story. Those lists are in the left column of a composition. The right column holds synced text figures with notes about people, places, and things. Text boxes spanning both columns delimit the story subdivisions.

Whatever else Curio is, it is unquestionably the world's strongest outlining tool, ever.

Now I just learned I can paste a synced text figure into the body of an index card, producing collapsable synced figures in a composition, saving real estate as needed. Is there no end to these new powers?”

— Curio owner since 2019

“Curio is one of only a handful of keystone apps in my daily workflow. Whether it be to develop lecture notes, brainstorm ideas, or administer the big picture of my GTD life, Curio is the point guard in the team of tools that I use.

It is truly the most flexible idea board that I have found to pull information together in a variety of ways: mind maps, lists, notecards, and pictures are my go-to displays. Put those together on pin boards or stacks, then give them tags, priorities, and scheduling dates. Wow!

Folks may say, when you have a hammer, everything is a nail. I would say, when you have Curio, you have every tool you might need to put an idea together from start to end. It fits everything.

And the support is top-notch, whether via direct email or through the forums.”

— Curio owner since 2010

“As a professor, I need a way to gather and organize the various materials for my classes in one place; Curio offers the best solution for doing so. I begin with the Templates feature to map out the format for common documents I use for class: lecture notes, essay prompts, group projects, reading notes. Next, I use the Organizer panel to create folders for each type of document as well as for class texts. I then begin to populate the folders. Curio's gracefully manages a wide variety of sources, including YouTube videos, webpages, PDF files, as well as images.

Once the materials are in place, I shift my attention to creating the content for the class—writing assignments, drafting notes, preparing schedules. Here again, Curio shines and allows me to house the necessary text documents, spreadsheets, and presentations within Curio itself. Many programs that attempt to be all things to all people do nothing very well; using them requires compromises and kludges. Curio is that rare exception: a program that does most things and that does all of them much better than one could hope; using it encourages clarity and elegance.”

— Curio owner since 2008

“I have used Curio to run my practice as a freelance lawyer for the last 7 years and have become totally dependent upon it to organise the hundreds of pages of documents which I need to come to grips with on a daily basis.

In my experience, Curio provides the only viable way in which to organise, navigate and cross-link between PDF documents and it has allowed me to run an entirely "electronic" practice, both outside and inside the court room. No other software program has come close.

I am thrilled by the continued commitment of Zengobi to refine and expand upon the capabilities of this wonderful program.”

— Curio owner since 2011

“I use Curio to manage my major projects, and it is an amazing note taking, organization, research, and presentation program, by far the best I have ever used.

The whiteboard idea space format offers an amazing variety of tools to layout information, in lists, mind maps, photo galleries, diagrams and much more. I am a visual person and Curio meets my needs perfectly.”

— Curio owner since 2011