Curio 30 Release Notes 📖

New Features

Inline Markdown Checklists

You can now create inline markdown checklists where list items prefixed with - [ ] and - [x] are rendered as ☐ and ☑, respectively. You can even click to toggle the rendered checkmarks and the underlying syntax will change.

These inline checklists can also be used within any text figure including within collections like mind map nodes and table cells which is a very popular request.

For Pro users, this also works with markdown checklists within aliased file-backed text figures so you can have synced todo lists across platforms and apps.

Check out the Format > Markdown submenu discussed below which can convert selected lines of text into a bulleted or numbered markdown list.

Also, as a shortcut, you can begin a new line with x or [] and press space and it will be replaced with - [ ], likewise begin with [x] and press space to get - [x].

Since they aren't true native figures these checklist items won't appear in the Status shelf or sync to Calendar, but if you need that functionality you can still drop or paste a markdown list into Curio and convert it into a native Curio list figure containing individual checked or unchecked native text figures.

Inline Markdown Tables

You can now create inline tables with support for column alignments.

Check out the Format > Markdown submenu discussed below which can convert selected tab-delimited lines of text into a markdown table (where columns are indicated via tabs). Makes it much easier to create markdown tables!

Curio Pro users can also define a global or project master markdown style sheet for cells, alternating rows, header row, footer row, left column, and right column. Here's an example with alignment and styles.

Note you can still drop or paste a markdown table into Curio and convert it into a native Curio table figure containing individual text figures.

Markdown Submenu

A new handy submenu under Format > Markdown makes it easy to select text and convert into a bulleted list, numbered list, checklist, block quote, or code block.

It can also convert selected tab-delimited lines of text into a markdown table (where columns are indicated via tabs) and if already a markdown table then it will convert it back into tab-delimited lines of text.

Note that many of the keyboard shortcuts are the same as Apple's Notes app.

Inline Equations

You can now use the standard Insert > Equation (⌃⌘E) interface to insert an inline equation into a text figure as a scalable PDF image.

The size and baseline offset of the inline equation are based on the font size of the surrounding text. If you modify the figure's text size the equation will scale its size and baseline to match automatically. Here's an example text figure with two inline equations:

When editing the text figure you can double-click an inline equation to edit its equation and update its image.

Note existing markdown equation syntax within a text figure is not rendered on-the-fly. Curio's equation editor has to be used to create the equation image, akin to the equation editor workflow in Pages and Keynote.

When exporting as rich text the baseline-aligned images are included. When exporting as markdown, the raw equation syntax is output so your favorite markdown editor can render it on-the-fly.

Composition Row Styling

For composition rows, you can now specify a fill color; top, bottom, left, and right border color and thickness; and whether a separator is the full width of the composition figure. You can also use the new actions button menu to copy, paste, and clear row styles. This is a useful way to emphasize specific rows.

More New Features

• Smart Paste
  

  Like Apple's Notes and Microsoft's Word, Curio now supports a smarter paste by default. Now when pasting into a Curio text figure, any pasted rich text will match the surrounding text style including font, font size, and text color while still transferring specific attributes (links, bold, italics, strikethrough, baseline, attachments, superscript). This is a definite step up from pasting as plain text as you would lose all of those attributes.

  You can still use Paste As > Rich Text if you want all the attributes. You can also customize or disable smart paste via advanced settings.

• Smarter Curved Lines
  

  Previously a connection line between two figures required at least one user-defined midpoint to create a smoothly curved line. Now, even with no midpoints, Curio will internally create the midpoints necessary to render an elegant, swoopy curved line, all automatically.

• Idea Graph Curved Lines Default
  

  Thanks to the above change, the default for all idea graph connecting lines is now curved, instead of straight. Although this can be changed back to straight lines if you wish.

• Curved Lines Default
  Relatedly, lines drawn outside of idea graphs are still drawn as straight lines by default, although you can now tweak an advanced setting to make them curved.
• Diamond Line Arrowhead
  

  You can now choose a diamond arrowhead for lines. UML diagrams use the diamond symbol to indicate Aggregation when unfilled and Composition when filled. Relatedly, the arrowheads in the inspector are rendered more clearly and a very subtle line-to-arrowhead centering issue was fixed.

• Table Alternating Row Color
  

  Table figures now support a custom alternating row color.

• Export Mind Map Markdown As Headings
  

  When exporting a mind map collection figure, the export as markdown dialog will have an additional option allowing you to specify that markdown # headings should be used for the first x hierarchical levels. This feature mimics export functionality found in the venerable iThoughts app. Please see the docs for an example.

• Organizer Tags ⇄ Figure Text
  

  Use the Info inspector to give a text figure an identifier of {%IdeaSpaceTagNames} and that figure's content and the idea space's associated tags will automatically stay in sync regardless of which one you change.

  By editing the figure and using the normal hashtag syntax you can associate existing tags (#Context/Home), add new tags to existing tag sets (#gtd/late), use or add project local tags (#finally), and remove tags simply by backspacing over them, and all changes will be reflected to the idea space.

  This is a handy companion to our existing support for the {%IdeaSpaceTitle} identifier which can sync with the idea space's title. You can see both in use in the screenshot below.