Curio 29 Release Notes 📖

Improvements

Composition Collection

Introducing composition, Curio's most powerful collection figure. Unlike other collections, this über collection is designed to contain and organize other collections!

This means normal figures like text, images, and files plus collection figures like lists, tables, stacks, mind maps can all exist within a composition collection. Easily create a mixed composition like the one shown below, or create a simple composition like a kanban board with multiple stacks arranged side-by-side in columns.

A composition is made up of one or more independent rows, with each row having one or more columns, and each column having one or more stacked figures.

You can control the gaps between rows, columns, and figures, and optionally control the width of specific columns. Resize the width of the composition and the columns resize and adjust their contained figures.

Drag or insert any type of figure into a composition, handy guides let you know if dropping would insert a new row, new column, or new item within a column.

And of course a composition is just a figure so you can create an idea space with any number of compositions plus any other figures you wish for an incredibly rich and organized work environment.

Local Library Browser

The Local library shelf now supports a browse mode, in addition to its Spotlight search mode. When browsing the search, scope, and other popups act as a file filters as you navigate through the file hierarchy. This new capability makes it easy to track frequently used scope folders such as an Obsidian vault or iCloud-synced folder.

You can use a # prefix to search for Finder tags either in browse or search mode.

When you double-click a markdown file located within an Obsidian vault hierarchy, the vault and file will be opened within Obsidian instead of opening the file in a generic text editor.

Sleuth: Copilot, Poe, Groq, Kagi

Sleuth now includes several new AI services including Microsoft's Copilot, Quora's Poe, and Groq. Plus the Kagi privacy-focused, subscriber-only search engine.

Copy Search Results as Figures

The Search shelf's share button menu now has an option to copy the results as figures. You can then paste them elsewhere in your project or even paste them as synced figure references so changes made to these copies will sync to their originals.

Save Template/Stencil Gallery Tag

When saving an idea space template or a figure stencil you can now associate an optional gallery tag for the masters and/or personal libraries with the item.

Composition Stencils

Several bundled composition stencils are included. (More on the way...)

Updated Templates and Stencils

Several of the bundled idea space templates and figure stencils were tweaked and updated.

More Improvements

• Better Obsidian File Support
  Double-clicking an alias to a markdown file located within an Obsidian vault or Option-double-clicking a text figure which is file-backed with an alias to a markdown file within an Obsidian vault, will now construct and launch an obsidian:// link to open that vault with Obsidian and navigate to that file.
• Better DEVONthink Support
  Within the Local Library shelf you can now drag DEVONthink results into an idea space and instead of getting a link you get the embedded metadata entry itself with a nice display name. With this change it means you can select the DEVONthink asset figure on the idea space and press Spacebar to see a Quick Look preview, and double-clicking still reveals the entry in the DEVONthink app.
• Side Resize
  Inspired by Marc Edwards's fantastic overview of interaction hit zones, Curio figures that have side resizing handles can now be resized from anywhere on the side of the figure, not just where the grab handles are. Limitation: this is only for unrotated figures, rotated figures still resize via the handles.
• Table Drag Resize Last Column/Row
  You can now easily resize the last column and last row in a table by dragging its column or row divider along the edge of the figure. The result is the table itself resizes to to accommodate the new column or row size.
• Local Library Files within iCloud Drive Package Files
  The Local library shelf now filters out files that are within file packages, like .rtfd and .curio files. The Spotlight API isn't supposed to return files within packages but apparently macOS has a bug (at least on macOS Sonoma) where Spotlight is indexing files within packages if located on iCloud Drive.
• Selection Glow
  Made some tweaks to the selection glow algorithm so (a) you can now see the figure border lines through the glow, (b) it glows outside the pen width so always visible, and (c) it's now on by default but you can still customize via Selection Glow advanced setting.
• Organizer Duplicate
  In the Organizer if a parent node is expanded then duplicating it will now create a duplicate of just the selected node (not its children) as a sibling of itself. If you copy/paste instead then the copy will appear as a first child. This mimics Keynote's behavior. Also if the parent node is collapsed then duplicate or copy/paste will create a copy of the node including its children as a sibling of the node.
• Tag Adornments
  Tag adornments are now ordered in the same order as the tag sets and tags themselves are ordered in the tag inspector (instead of alphabetically).
• Menu Items Rearranged
  To follow Apple's convention, Curio's View and Format main menus have been shifted in their ordering. The Insert menu has been tidied up by bringing all the various collection types into a new Collections submenu.
• Improved Figure Jump Highlighting
  When jumping to another figure which happens to be already visible on the screen then the window no longer scrolls and repositions to center it. Instead the figure is simply highlighted.
• Sleuth Download
  Sleuth and Sleuth shelf now support downloading files in these scenarios:
  1. A clicked on link is using an HTML anchor download attribute which indicates the link URL should be downloaded and not displayed in the browser which is handy for images.
  2. A clicked on link has a file extension that could be displayed in the browser but it's in our special extensions list so we'll download it. Tthis lists includes pdf,csv,md,zip and can be customized with the Sleuth Download Extensions setting.
  3. The clicked on link can't be displayed in the browser so will trigger a download automatically.
  Oddly, the right-click Download Linked File and Download Image menu items don't initiate a download for whatever reason and I can't seem to do anything to workaround this.