In a wedding planning guide, for example, one Idea Space can hold to-do lists, another the guest list, a third the seating chart, etc. You can also link a project to your Calendar and Reminders, even if they reside in iCloud. You can easily turn any project into a slideshow presentation, complete with customizable Core Image transition styles. In one handy window, it can search piles upon piles of Websites creative professionals may find useful, including font foundries and image libraries.
The levels of thought and care Zengobi put into this and every other Curio feature never failed to impress. Despite the many different buttons and options that surround every edge of the Curio window, the interface proves easy to learn. The friendly, comprehensive Getting Started walkthrough project helps considerably. Changes made to editable documents will be saved automatically when you switch to another item in the Organizer or when you close the project.
Renaming the title in the Organizer will rename the underlying file as well, if embedded. One important note is that these Organizer documents cannot be printed, exported, or presented from within Curio. The Organizer is simply acting as a binder to collect these documents in your project.
However, you can right-click on the item in the Organizer to open or reveal the file in the Finder using the context menu. As a note, the Add button on the toolbar can be used to insert a blank rich text document to the Organizer so you can quickly take notes.
A handy filter bar can be revealed by clicking on the little magnifying glass icon in the Organizer header. A small pane appears under the Organizer where you can filter the contents of the Organizer by one or more criteria:.
For instance, you can use the filter bar to show all idea spaces modified in the past 2 weeks; or all with a the label "Needs Client Approval"; or tagged with the "Important" tag; or with a title containing the word "lecture".
While a filter is active many Organizer options such as drag-and-drop moving are temporarily disabled until the filter is cleared. On a related note, the new right-click popup menu for Organizer items, and the new meta inspector popover for Organizer items, have been significantly improved to encourage the use of labels.
Hold down the Option key and click on an idea space or other Organizer item to open it in a split view on the right-side of the window. As a shortcut, Option-clicking on the splitter button in the Navigator Bar can also switch the split layout.
The splitter button is used to open up or close the secondary idea space split view. Option-click on this button to switch the secondary view between the side-by-side and above-below layouts.
The bookmarks popup button can be used to create bookmarks to easily jump to points within your project. You can either create a bookmark to an Organizer item such as an idea space, or you can create a bookmark figure. A bookmark figure is a positionable figure which is placed into the current idea space and is useful if you want to mark a specific location within an idea space.
Both bookmarks and bookmark figures can be named and assigned one of eight colors for quick identification. All bookmarks are listed in the bookmarks popup in the navigator bar and can either be sorted by name or color.
To remove a bookmark, choose Remove Bookmark from the bookmarks menu. To remove a bookmark figure, select it on the idea space and press Delete. The navigator is a popup display showing the complete hierarchy of the current section or project so you can select and instantly jump to another Organizer item.
In many cases you can leave the Organizer hidden and simply use the Navigator popup instead. If you hold Command down then the buttons change to indicate that clicking will move you to the first or last item in the Organizer. The new project inspector replaces the old project properties window and includes items such as print margins and a project password. You can replace the default project preview with an image of your choosing which will be used as the project thumbnail in the Finder, the Open Project Gallery window, and the Status shelf.
New in Curio 8 is a helpful actions popup menu next to the project image well. Here you will find quick access to popular textures and sample images via Google Image Search which you can copy and paste into the project image.
You will also find an option to apply a journal appearance overlay complete with black bookmark and curved corners. Previously Curio only supported a global schedule that had to be shared between all projects. This made it difficult to support home and work projects, for example.
Calendar and Reminder syncing has been greatly improved with support for iCloud calendars and reminders. This means you can create calendars all set up for iCloud syncing and Curio will simply populate them with task information. In Mountain Lion this process is a bit different since the new Calendar app handles events and the new Reminders app handles tasks. The names you enter will still have to be unique even though they are separate apps. You can either make project-specific calendars or a common calendars for all your Curio projects.
For example, you could create a Curio calendar and a Curio Reminders reminder list that you share with all your projects, or you can create project-specific Curio ProjectX and Curio ProjectX Tasks calendars. So, if you have an item called "Prepare budget" in the "Pepsi" project, the resulting exported item will be called "Pepsi - Prepare budget".
Using these controls you can step backwards or forwards through the PDF or enter a specific page to view. You can also enable annotations by selecting text in the PDF and clicking the new highlight, strikethrough, and underline buttons. These annotations are stored within the PDF document itself and visible in other apps such as Preview. PDF figures can be resized and repositioned while they are active without having to stop the annotation session. Selecting a WebView figure, or a web link stored directly in the Organizer, will reveal a new web surfing bar up in the inspector bar area so you can control your web browsing experience for that web view.
Double-clicking a WebView activates it and begins the web browsing session within the WebView until you stop browsing by clicking the button in the inspector bar. You can now have multiple live WebView active simultaneously, and these live views can be resized and repositioned without having to stop the browsing session. Curio makes it incredibly easy to grab a YouTube or Vimeo video and stick it into a WebView for easy streaming into your idea space.
A WebView of the correct size is then created, the embed URL is set, and the resulting WebView is placed on your idea space ready for viewing. Curio now allows you to quickly flip through a stack of figures, such as index cards, arranged on the idea space. Hold the Command-Option keys down and use your mouse scroll wheel to quickly scan through the stack of figures under the mouse pointer.
Curio first determines what is the stack by looking at all figures under the mouse pointer and expands that set to include all figures those figures themselves overlap. Then, based on the scroll wheel direction, will flip the figures in their z-order so items are rotated from top to bottom or bottom to top. Curio 8 sports a new media bar so the stop button to end the recording is easily accessible even if you wander off to another idea space while taking notes. Fill Colors Match Stroke — When checked the fill colors, including gradient colors, will change to match the specified stroke color.
Automatic Text Color — When checked the text color will automatically turn either black or white given the current fill color, even if a complex gradient fill is used. If you manually choose a specific fill color or text color then the appropriate automatic checkbox is unchecked for you. Curio has a new speech shape with an arrow which can be rotated around the figure via the Corners slider in the shape inspector popover.
Tagging is much easier with a new tag text entry field with auto completion and refreshed tag picker. Simply start typing the tag name of an existing tag then choose it from the completion list that appears, or continue typing and hit Enter to create an on-the-fly local project tag. The old, separate tag preferences window has been integrated into the tag display as well so you can add, modify, or remove global tag sets and tags via the actions popup menu in this inspector. Global tags have always supported image and hotkeys and now local project tags support them as well.
You can also easily drag multiple images from the Finder into the new tags panel to add image tags to an existing tag set. The Notes inspector now reveals a fantastic new detached rich text editor with formatting toolbar and ruler. Managing assigned resources is now much easier as you can now add new resources to your project directly within the meta inspector. You can even drag-and-drop contacts from the Apple Contacts app or Address Book app in Lion into the resources area to quickly add new resources.
If the due date is at midnight then the adornment reports the day before. For example, say in the date inspector for a figure you set the start date to June 6th at midnight and the due date to June 8th at midnight, thus it a 2-day duration. On a related note, we normally show date adornments with just the day and month but no year.
Notice that the Insert Sibling button can change depending on what modifier keys are held down on the keyboard. In the past, Curio had a system called "level styles" which was used to automatically apply styles to figures at a given hierarchical level.
This was supposed to make styles super-easy but instead became a pain to work with in practice. Yes, this means you can finally modify a figure — make it bold, change its color, etc.
The only exception to this rule is found in the Children tab shown in the screenshot above. Hopefully that makes sense. All that said, Curio will still intelligently style new objects added to your list. Likewise, dragging a figure from the idea space or the Finder into your list will cause that new item to adopt the style of its sibling. Rich text and plain text exporting of lists now include the prefix enumerator with the output.
Read the details above for more info. Curio mind maps now support boundaries. A boundary is a colored area that encloses a mind map parent figure and all of its children. Selecting a parent item on the mind map and turn on the Draw Branch As Boundary option in the mind map popover inspector and the boundary shading will be displayed.
The color of the boundary is automatically determined based on the color of the parent figure itself. Curio now supports much smarter snapping lines within collection figures which means mind map relationship lines are easier to draw.
However, the insert buttons can change depending on what modifier keys are held down on the keyboard, note the blue coloring and arrow changes when you press a modifier key.
It will no longer override cell styles unless you manually apply a new table style or force a style change via the new Cells tab.
The text background color well aka highlight color in the inspector bar now remembers the last used color even between launches. Hold the Shift key and that color well will show the previously-used color — we default it with a nice light-yellow color — then clicking the button will apply that color to the new selection. As always clicking the color well without holding Shift will show the normal color matrix so you can pick a standard color, and Option-clicking the color well will reveal the Apple Colors panel so you can choose any color.
Curio 8 supports a new smoothing algorithm to take care of the jaggies that used to appear when sketching. The canvas itself is still non-retina for maximum project compatibility between retina and non-retina devices and for reduced memory requirements. Curio is now using the standard OS X method to determine if window states should be saved and restored between launches.
You can change this option on-the-fly when quitting Curio by holding down the Option key when choosing Quit. Notice that the Quit menu item changes to either Quit and Close All Windows if window restoration is normally enabled by default, or Quit and Keep Windows if window restoration is normally disabled.
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