Curio 31 Release Notes 📖

Improvements

• Organizer Sidebar Toolbar
  

  The default sidebar toolbar now includes the Add idea space button, as this is the logical place for it. If you've customized your toolbar you can manually ⌘-drag your existing Add button to this left sidebar toolbar area.

  Also added a workaround for an Apple bug where their toolbar system can move buttons from that sidebar toolbar to the toolbar's far-right overflow menu (!) if the Organizer sidebar is collapsed or resized too small.

  The Organizer toolbar button menu has been improved so you can easily jump to another section without having to show sections first. Note you now click and hold this button to show the Organizer button's popup menu as it's been reimplemented to use a native combo button introduced in macOS 13.

  Improved the Projects toolbar button menu so (1) the path is included in the listing, (2) you can hold Command and choose a file to reveal it in the Finder, just like Spotlight, and (3) broken aliases to old projects are no longer listed.

• Toolbar
  The toolbar buttons has been modernized to use new API's added in more recent macOS releases. Among other perks this fixes things like a disabled toolbar button image but its button label is enabled or vice versa (like with the Lock / Unlock buttons).
• Navigator Menu
  

  The navigator button in the inspector bar is used to quickly navigate to other Organizer idea spaces within your project. It has been updated so for small projects it shows an easier-to-navigate list with items indented to show hierarchy, and the active idea space is the pre-selected item in the menu. For larger projects with more than 30 items, the navigator will continue to use submenus but will now checkmark and bold the active idea space and its parent ancestors making it easier to navigate from your current location.

      

• Automatic Flag Size
  

  You can now set the adornment flag size so it will be automatically computed based on the figure's font size. If the font size changes, the flag size changes dynamically as well (it's pretty slick). All built-in styles now have an automatic flag size.

• Meta Pseudo Tags
  

  The Quick Find popover and Search shelf now support a slew of new dynamically applied pseudo tags like #meta/prioritized to find all figures with a priority, #meta/syncfile to find all figures with sync files, and much more!

  The Quick Find popover and Search shelf will now autocomplete when typing a #meta pseudo tag.

  And new friendly entries for these items have been added to Quick Find and Search's Meta Misc menu when you click the keyboard icon button.

  Relatedly, the #meta/notchecked has been tweaked so it's set when a figure's progress < 100 (instead of >0 and <100).

• Meta Tweaks
  

  The keyboard shortcuts for some meta elements have been tweaked:
  - Percent complete progress popover: P
  - Tags popover: M (for meta)
  - Percent complete: 1 (10%) ... 9 (90%) -> 0 (100%), press 0 again to reset to 0%
  - Priority: ⌥1 (very low) ->⌥5 (urgent) and ⌥0 is none
  - Rating: ⇧1 (★) -> ⇧5 (★★★★★) and ⇧0 is none
  - A new Resources context menu item (if your project has resources)
  - Plus a refreshed Meta context menu which shows those keyboard shortcuts:

  Clicking a figure's checkmark toggles the check of course. Option-clicking now shows a popup menu with the same steps specified via the Meta context menu's Percent Complete Steps option. Shift-Option-click if you want to see the mini popover which lets you set any value. That mini popover plus the inspector panel itself have both been updated to support Percent Complete Steps via their little steppers and a handy new popup menu button.

  And the Status task context menu has also been refreshed and now uses Percent Complete Steps as well.

  Plus the priority and ratings adornment menus, which appear if you simply click on the respective adornment, have also been refreshed to maintain consistent ordering of items: percent complete, priority, and rating are all ordered from low to high.

• Adornment Tooltips
  You can now enable or disable the display of specific adornment tooltips if you wish.
• Figure Context Menu Cleanup
  Cleaned up the context menu that appears when you right-click on a figure, including adding File (if applicable) and Arrange submenus. This context menu has been getting too long, especially on laptops, as Apple has been appending more Continuity items to context menus at run time, such as taking a photo with your iPhone, plus the Services menu item.
• Markdown Table Column Alignments
  Markdown left-center-right table alignments are now applied to a markdown table dragged into an idea space. They are also output when exported/synced to a markdown file.
• Markdown Headings
  The rendering of single-line text figure that begins with a "#" as a markdown heading can now be disabled allowing you to create a text figure that contains simply "# of guests" without triggering a markdown heading render.
• Markdown Export Notes Footnotes Format
  When exporting markdown, any included figure notes are now output in the very popular Obsidian (and Pandoc) inline footnote format by default instead of MultiMarkdown's format, but this can be customized in advanced settings.
• Markdown Export Notes Footnotes New Lines
  Related to the above, when exporting markdown figure notes as inline footnotes you can now customize how Curio replaces new lines. The default is now 3 spaces (instead of 1 space), which makes it possible to import footnotes into a figure's notes. You can also set the replacement to a single space, 2 spaces, ¶ (Option-7), ⏎, or anything else. If anything other than single space is used then it will be converted back into new lines during import or sync.
• Markdown Import Inline Footnotes
  Curio does not normally import footnotes by default. This is because notes lose rich text formatting when exported so if imported you will lose formatting. But if you use unformatted text for your notes then you can enable import/syncing.
• Inspector Bar Font Size Stepper
  

  The inspector bar's text controls now includes a font size stepper button so you can easily increase or decrease the font size for the selected figure.

• Inspector Shelf Font and Font Face Stepper
  On the text inspector shelf there's a new stepper for font (Helvetica, Times, ...) and for font face (regular, oblique, light, ...) so you can march through items. Those aren't on the inspector bar since they're less commonly needed.
• Smart Paste URL
  You can now copy an URL, like from the location bar of your browser, or an URL text string copied from anywhere, and paste it on selected text within a text figure and that text will turn into a link to that URL. In other words, you don't have to bring up the Link (⌘K) dialog first and paste the URL in there; just paste the URL directly on the selected text and the text will turn into a link to that URL.
• Natural Size
  

  When the Natural Size button is clicked or the N shortcut is pressed then the selected image will expand to its natural size, constrained by the edge of the idea space; holding Shift will allow the idea space to expand if necessary. However, for super large images, like from your iPhone, Curio normally caps the max size at 1500 width or height for performance. Now, you can hold Option and the full resolution image will be reloaded from disk, the image will resize to its full size, and the idea space will expand if necessary. This may come in handy if occasionally want to work with very large images at their full resolution.

• Project Library Auto Refresh
  In the Project library, when the scope is the current idea space or its tree, then the display of assets now refreshes based on whichever split view is active.
• Photoshop Big File Format
  The Kind popups in the Project and Local library now includes .psb (Photoshop Big) as a type of Photoshop file.
• Improved Arrow Key Navigation
  Lots of tweaks to better handle arrow keys to navigate around various collections in general and specifically for mind map's many arrangements.
• Organizer Context Menu
  Added Export As > Curio Project to the Organizer's right-click context menu.
• Missing Jump Destination
  Better error alert if a jump destination (figure or Organizer item) was not found.
• Table of Contents Speedup ⚡️
  Massive speedup when generating a table of contents list or mind map figure.
• Typing Speedup ⚡️
  Significant speedup when typing due to more optimized refilling of the File > Share, Format > Apply, and Insert > Stencil submenus.
• Image Figures Speedup ⚡️
  Significant speedup when navigating between idea spaces containing lots of images by keeping more image data in the project data cache for instantaneous initial renderings.
• Organizer Preview Size
  You can now override the default size for idea space previews shown in the Organizer.
• Organizer Show Sections/Filter
  You can now specify if the Organizer's sections area and/or filter area should be displayed on launch by default.
• Insert File / Attach File
  Minor change so Insert File and Attach File both auto-expand their dialogs upon opening to show the embed/alias/copy option.