Curio for Free

I’m a very visual thinker so when I came across a program called Curio I was naturally drawn to it. What is Curio? From the virtual tour that you get with the download, “Curio is like a single notebook for a project that holds everything: the goals of the project, various web sites you should check out, rough sketches, text notes, and list outlines. You place these items either helter-skelter on a page or along a nicely aligned grid; whatever fit your mood. Now take that notebook and make it so each page can be humongous, you can have an unlimited number of them, and they can be grouped into as many levels as you want and color coded for quick lookup. Then toss in the ability to drag in files from your desktop — where the file can be remembered as an alias that can be tracked as it moves around your system or actually embedded within the project. Make it so images and multimedia can play live on the page. Then finish it off with sophisticated searching, archiving, and sharing. Add in a dossier feature which gives you the questions to ask yourself or your client as you begin each project to accurately define the project’s goals. And a sleuth feature which handles the drudgery of searching web sites for research and inspiration.” That’s it in a nutshell.

Sounded great to me last week but, the only thing was that the basic version costs $39 and my personal software budget for this year is depleted so I was thinking that was a nice idea but can’t afford it. Today I noticed that Curio basic is being offered for free. Actually you fill out some information and they send you a license via email so in a way you are trading your info for the software. I signed up coz I’m curious to see how it work and with all the time wasting I have to do I knew that the initial 15-day license wasn’t going to work for me. The offer ends on August 7th so if you are interested hop on over there and fill out the form. Anyway Curio is a Universal Binary for native compatibility on Intel Macs, while still maintaining perfect compatibility with PowerPC Macs running 10.3.9 or above. From my brief exploration of the software, I wish they had a version for Windows so I can use this for work. Unfortunately my work environment is strictly PC based.