Curio provides the most flexible and powerful environment for gathering and shaping your ideas. No other product on the market has the features and the intuitive interface to promote creative exploration.

Unlike notebook-style applications, Curio lets you place anything anywhere on the page.

Curio lets your mind run wild with an unlimited number of creative idea spaces. Create freeform collages of text snippets, images, movies, and sounds. Grab URL's, images, and text from the web, or files and documents off your hard disk.

Need to sketch out an idea? Curio's amazing brushes and pens allow you to create dazzling drawings and quick doodles anywhere on the page.

Tablet users will find creative nirvana as many of the brushes are pressure-senstive, changing their color saturation and brush size on-the-fly as you press harder on the tablet.

Here are some key features of "Curio Pro":

· Surround your ideas with Curio's flowcharting and mind mapping shapes!
· Curio's group, text, and asset figures can be framed with rectangles, rounded rectangles, octagons, hexagons, trapezoids, brackets, vertical brackets, triangles, diamonds, semicircles, ovals, and clouds.
· Many shapes can be further customized turning brackets into parentheses and clouds into super-bumpy clouds.
· Create outline lists and check lists! Any type of figure can be in a list: text, assets, images, movies, bookmarks ... anything!
· Figures can be easily rearranged and indented (via tab and shift-tab or via drag and drop within the list). You can also apply an optional outline style for creating various types of bulleted and numbered lists. Combined with the flags, checkboxes, and ratings (all described below) you can easily create Top 10 lists and To Do lists.
· With Curio's advanced grid you have control over the vertical and horizontal grid snapping.
· Curio now includes new grid styles such as notebook, college-ruled, legal, quadrille, and engineering papers.
· When using one of the notebook-style grids, text line height is automatically set to match grid height to complete the notebook paper look.
· Figures within Curio can be tagged with one or more built-in graphical flags to make certain items stand out. A checkbox flag can also be added which can be checked and unchecked. And rating stars can be displayed to quickly see the top-rated items. Fill an idea space with new company names or logos and, with a quick click, flag them so the winners are separated from the losers.
· Have you ever wanted to create a quick embedded TextEdit document or Photoshop drawing while brainstorming in Curio? To do this in the past you've had to leave Curio, launch the other application, do your work, save the file, drag that file into your Curio project marking it as embedded, then delete the original file. Whew! But no longer! Now you can easily create an embedded document for any application. Curio comes bundled with several default templates for TextEdit, Photoshop, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and others, and you can easily add your own document files as templates.
· The Curio paint brushes and pens will change their brush size and color saturation with pressure while you're scribbling on a tablet. The opacity stays set to the value specified in the Inspector. This combines the best of Apple InkPad (size and saturation change with pressure) and Adobe Photoshop (opacity can be set for a brush). It now feels much more like you're scribbling on a real-world sketchbook!
· The Library has been integrated into the main project window as a separate collapsible pane. Searching via the toolbar's search field now updates the Organizer, current idea space, and Library panes. You can also display additional sortable columns including date created, date modified, date added (to Curio), rating, preview image, whether the asset has an associated note, use count, and size in bytes. The Library can also show you where an asset is used in your project and allow you to quickly open an associated idea space. It's awesome!
· Sleuth comes pre-loaded with tons of amazing reference sites, photo archives, quote services, font foundries, and other fun sites. But what if you have a particular site that you want to search that Sleuth didn't include?
· No problem! Drag and drop a search result page from Safari or other browser and Sleuth will fill in the details automatically. For search sites that use POST you'll need to do some digging on your own to find out what's needed but Sleuth's interface makes it easy to set up the Sleuth site once you have that info.
· The Dossier component of Curio contains an incredible collection of customizable question and answer templates to help you get started on your project. Choose Creative Brief for your graphic or print design needs, Video Production for your next video project, and Product Plan when planning a new product, service, or company.
· Other templates include Screenplay for your cinematic aspirations, Science Experiments for classroom lessons, and Essay for your creative writing assignments.
· You can publish your project, or just selected idea spaces, to your .Mac iDisk to share with anyone! Your idea spaces are exported using Curio's wonderful HTML exporter (see below) then uploaded to your iDisk. In fact, multiple projects can be published simultaneously in the background while you continue working with Curio.
· Curio will make sure only changed idea spaces and assets are exported since your last publish to maximize efficiency.
· You can export your Curio idea spaces as PDF's, TIFF's, PNG's, JPG's, or even HTML. The HTML support is simply amazing: idea spaces are exported as images along with all assets associated with those idea spaces. Asset figures found on the rendered idea space can be clicked on to instantly download documents, movies, and songs, loading them within the browser if appropriate. Web URLs and jump markers also work as you would expect taking you to the web site or idea space. Check out our Feature Tour sample Curio document exported as an HTML project.

Limitations:

· 15 days trial period. After the trial period you can view and print your projects but you will no longer be able to save, export or publish.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Notable Tweaks:
· Added new "Create alias to file instead of embedding" checkbox in the Insert > File dialog which does the same thing as holding down Option when dragging a file in from the Finder.

Notable Fixes:
· Using spacebar to collapse a list or mind map will now keep the immediate first-level children visible so you notice the collection is collapsed.
· Fixed issue where an Untitled but autosaved project document could be accidentally closed without saving if you open another project in a new window.
· Fixed a bug where showing the Library or searching may hang due to underlying asset aliases which couldn't be resolved.
· Fixed issue where the shelf system could crash when switching between projects.
· Gesture support is now tied to a new preference setting and is off by default. If you try to enable it then we warn you if you are running a gesture-enhancement utility which could interfere with our undo stack.
· Fixed a bug where you could call Spread PDF with no PDFs on the idea space, w...