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We created Curio: an amazingly cool note-taking, brainstorming, and mind mapping app for the Mac.

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Curio 33 bento with markdown LaTeX equations, Mermaid diagrams, language code blocks, markdown callouts, async link previews, markdown horizontal rules, smarter file importing, oodles of requested tweaks and fixes.

Curio 33 bento with markdown LaTeX equations, Mermaid diagrams, language code blocks, markdown callouts, async link previews, markdown horizontal rules, smarter file importing, oodles of requested tweaks and fixes.

Welcome to Curio 33 with markdown math equations (finally!), Mermaid diagrams, language-specific syntax coloring, markdown callouts & horizontal rules, async link previews, smarter file importing, and so much more! zengobi.com

12.01.2026 17:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Black Friday sale! Save 20% with BLACKFRIDAY2025 coupon code through Dec 1, 2025.

Black Friday sale! Save 20% with BLACKFRIDAY2025 coupon code through Dec 1, 2025.

After stuffing yourself with turkey take a break with Curio 32! New customers can save 20% on traditional licenses with the BLACKFRIDAY2025 coupon. Sale ends after Cyber Monday (Dec 1st). πŸ¦ƒ Purchases includes a year of free updates. Psst: Curio 33 is in beta! zengobi.com

24.11.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Curio 32 feature bento

Curio 32 feature bento

Curio 32 is here with new matrix composition, multiple windows for the same project, right-down and tree mind map layouts, numeric text formatting, placeholder figures, Home idea space, 'on open' customization, custom Organizer icons, additional Sleuth AI support, and much more! zengobi.com

21.08.2025 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Accolades to Curio for Creating Graphics in Science and Engineering

Accolades to Curio for Creating Graphics in Science and Engineering

Forums post: "Accolades to Curio for Creating Graphics in Science and Engineering". Thrilled that Curio was so helpful in producing this paper. πŸ”¬ forums.zengobi.com/t/accolades-...

26.02.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Colored capsules for meta tags.

Colored capsules for meta tags.

Text gradient coloring example.

Text gradient coloring example.

Plus text gradient coloring and tag set capsule colors, plus so much more in this feature backed release. Loads of customer requested enhancements and fixes as well. Learn more at zengobi.com!

10.02.2025 15:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Fun SVG images of an emoji, briefcase, atom, library, snowflake, and more.

Fun SVG images of an emoji, briefcase, atom, library, snowflake, and more.

Curio now supports SVG image figures! Simply drag in an .svg file or paste a raw text SVG and a scalable, vector-based image will be rendered.

10.02.2025 14:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And here's a list syncing to a OPML file. Sync file is pretty flexible: Text figures can sync with md files; list, mind map, and stack collections can sync with lists in md, opml, or taskpaper files; table collections can sync with tables in md, csv, or tsv files.

10.02.2025 14:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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And a table syncing with an external CSV file.

10.02.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here's a mind map live syncing with an external markdown file located in an Obsidian iCloud-hosted vault which is also being edited using both Obsidian and BBEdit. Notice changes from any will be instantly reflected in the others.

10.02.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Bento box of Curio 31's new features including sync files, text gradients, mind map line widths, more meta, SVG images, markup images, tag capsules, faster typing, markdown enhancements, and more!

Bento box of Curio 31's new features including sync files, text gradients, mind map line widths, more meta, SVG images, markup images, tag capsules, faster typing, markdown enhancements, and more!

Introducing Curio 31! New features include figure sync files (sync lists, mind maps, tables, etc, to external cloud-synced files for live editing anywhere), SVG image support (for custom libraries of shapes and images), text gradients, markup image, tag capsule colors, and more! zengobi.com

10.02.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Happy Curio notebook sitting in a winter wonderland

Happy Curio notebook sitting in a winter wonderland

2024 has been a fantastic year for Curio with 3 major releases (Curio's 28, 29, and 30) packed with amazing new features! 2025 will be another productive year so cheers to all! πŸ₯‚Read more in our 2024 Wrap Up post: forums.zengobi.com/t/2024-wrap-...

02.01.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You're too kind. It's an honor to be on your list. Thank you, Brett!

26.12.2024 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
What's New in Curio 30
YouTube video by Zengobi What's New in Curio 30

Here's a quick 3-minute overview video showing off some of the big new features. youtu.be/sHVaGmCRH0w

09.10.2024 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing Curio 30 with markdown checklists and tables, inline equations, composition row styling, smart paste, smarter curved lines, diamond arrowheads, table alt row colors, plus much much more! zengobi.com

09.10.2024 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Curio 29 Release Notes

Learn all about Curio 29 at our website. Traditional licenses include a year of free updates, or choose a convenient monthly or yearly subscription from the Mac App Store. www.zengobi.com/curio/releas...

14.06.2024 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And there's much more in Curio 29 including new and updated templates & stencils, better Obsidian & DEVONthink support, drawing optimizations, plus loads of other feature enhancements and fixes.

14.06.2024 12:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Want more? Curio 29's 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.

14.06.2024 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This new capability makes it easy to track frequently used scope folders such as an Obsidian vault or iCloud-synced folder. Plus when you double-click a markdown file located within an Obsidian vault hierarchy, the vault and file will be opened within Obsidian.

14.06.2024 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
New Local library browse mode.

New Local library browse mode.

What else is new? The Local library in Curio 29 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.

14.06.2024 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The new composition inspector where you can specify row, column, and figure gap; a separator style and color; and a specific width for certain columns.

The new composition inspector where you can specify row, column, and figure gap; a separator style and color; and a specific width for certain columns.

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. You can also enable row separators of various styles.

14.06.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Composition figure drag-and-drop
Curio 29's new composition collection figure allows you to organize and arrange regular figures like text, images, and web links as well as collection figures like lists, mind maps, stacks, and tables. A composition starts with one or more rows, each row is made up of one or more columns, each column is made up of one or more stacked figures. Rows are completely independent so one could have just one column, another three columns, and another five columns. It's all up to you. Easily drag-and-drop figures around to insert new rows, columns, or an item within a column. When you release, the composition takes care of resizing and laying everything out. This video demonstrates the guide lines that appear so you can see where the item will be placed. Composition figure drag-and-drop

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. As you drag in a figure, guides let you know if it would insert as a new row, new column, or new item within a column. youtu.be/ANu3Na8TmQI?...

14.06.2024 12:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Composition figure with multiple rows, some with multiple columns, containing a mix of images, text, lists, mind maps, tables, and stacks.

Composition figure with multiple rows, some with multiple columns, containing a mix of images, text, lists, mind maps, tables, and stacks.

Curio 29 is here with compositions, our most powerful collection figure! What makes it unique is that it can contain not only regular figures like text, images, and files, but other collections like lists, tables, mind maps, stacks, and index cards.

14.06.2024 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Life after iThoughts - BrettTerpstra.com So a lot of us are wondering what to do now that Toketaware has announced the sunsetting of the iThoughts mind mapping app for Mac and iOS. It s very sad to see it go, but I expect the current

Some words from @ttscoff on the sunsetting of iThoughts, using MindNode, and a kind Curio shout-out (thanks!) brettterpstra.com/2024/04/28/l...

30.04.2024 13:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Curio 1.0 from 2004

Screenshot of Curio 1.0 from 2004

Happy 20th Birthday Curio! πŸ₯³ Check out some early pics on our website and read a bit of history. To celebrate, new traditional licenses are 20% off through the end of February. No coupon needed. Go Curio! forums.zengobi.com/t/happy-20th...

23.02.2024 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Introducing Curio 28 with a very popular request: [[wikilinks]] and backlinks! Plus a powerful jump creation popup, resizable shelf, new query options, more markdown, more export, and dozens of other of improvements, fixes, and performance updates! 🀯https://www.zengobi.com/curio/releasenotes/?v=28

07.02.2024 17:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

2023 Year in Review! A brief look back at our busy year with Curio's 24, 25, 26, and 27. And we have loads more planned for 2024! forums.zengobi.com/t/2023-year-...

27.12.2023 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0