Curio 8.5.1 important fix!

I'm terribly sorry to report that there was a bug in yesterday's Curio 8.5 release that may move Scrapbook asset items to your Trash.

If you're currently running 8.5 then just do a Curio > Check for Updates to grab the latest 8.5.1 release which fixes this issue. Otherwise you can download Curio 8.5.1 directly from here.

You can recover any Scrapbook assets out of the Trash and drag them back to the 8.5.1's Scrapbook. Again, I'm sincerely very sorry for this issue.

Update
If you use Time Machine or another backup system then you can also recover your Scrapbook file more directly, as follows.
  1. Go into the Finder.
  2. Hold the Option key down and click the Go menu then choose the Library menu item.
  3. Within the window that appears go into the Application Support folder, then Curio, then Repository, then Libraries.
  4. Select the Scrapbook.curio project and activate Time Machine to grab a version of that file from Sunday (i.e. before you installed 8.5).
  5. Click Restore within Time Machine to bring back that older version of Scrapbook.curio.

Curio 8.5

Curio 8.5 just tiptoed out the door. While it has a handful of new features the main thing is a huge list of robustness tweaks and fixes. Basically every bug or stability issue reported to Zengobi has been addressed in this release.

On the feature front, table fanatics will really enjoy Curio 8.5's incredibly cool support for new drop options when dragging items into Curio tables. Curio can now place the dropped items in a single column (adding rows as needed), a single row (adding columns as needed), or spread across and down (adding rows as needed).

Also, if you use standard OS X text lists (via the Lists popup on the ruler) within table cells you're going to enjoy Curio 8.5's smarter support for the tab key. If you are editing a list then tab and shift-tab will indent or outdent the current text list item. Otherwise, if a non-list cell is being edited then tab and shift-tab will move to the next or previous cell, as expected.

Lastly, something I've been meaning to add for ages, is support for moving files directly into Curio.

Normally when you insert a file into Curio, a copy of the original file is made and stored within the Curio project package. By holding down the Option key you have been able to store an alias to the original file instead.

Now you can move a file directly into Curio by holding the Command key while dragging a file into the idea space, the project library, or the Scrapbook library. The Insert > File dialog has also been updated to support moving in addition to copying and aliasing. Slick stuff.

The oft-forgotten Help menu is now a lot more useful. It now includes links to the video tutorials on YouTube, to the Zengobi Forums, and to the Curio 8 Advanced Settings page. As well as a handy "Ask Support" item to quickly send questions to Zengobi Support.

Check out the incredibly complete release notes for all the details and enjoy!

Request: Your project statistics

I have an open request to all Curio 8 customers out there who really love Curio and want to help me understand how you use Curio in your own projects.

Take two or three of your best, most representative projects and choose the File > Mail As > Project Statistics menu item for each of those projects and send those stats to me (I think everyone knows my email address).

You can preview the email before sending it but, don't worry, the stats don't include any private data from your projects. It just lists things like how many sections, idea spaces, videos, PDF's, and mind maps you have, the common sizes of your idea spaces, if you use scribbles and Calendar syncing, etc.

I really appreciate it as it will give me a good idea about how everyone uses Curio which, in turn, helps me determine future directions and feature sets.

Getting the latest Dropbox app

After reading another review of the overhauled Dropbox 2.0 I became perplexed why my Dropbox hadn't updated yet. I was still back on an older 1.6.x version with the older interface, even though Dropbox is supposed to auto-update.

To determine what version you're running:
  • With 1.x, click on the Dropbox icon in your menu bar and choose Preferences > Account. 
  • With 2.x, hold down the Option key and click on the Dropbox icon in your menu bar and choose Preferences > Account.
I went to Dropbox's download site and manually downloaded and installed the latest which is 2.0.6, at the time of this writing.

I know many Curio customers use Dropbox and it looks like lots of bugs have been fixed recently, so if you're not on 2.0.6 then make sure to grab the latest version.

On a related note, Curio 8.4.1 and above support a new, much easier technique for syncing your Curio application support folder across multiple machines using Dropbox.

Curio 8 mind map tips video

Check out this new video tutorial which goes over some useful mind map tips in Curio 8.

One thing I forgot to point out regarding Manual Child Coloring versus Automatic Child Coloring is that manual is a one-time operation. It copies the colors of the parent down to its children just that one time. If you change the parent's colors the children won't update themselves. However, with automatic coloring the children will dynamically update themselves any time the parent's coloring changes in any way.

Enjoy!


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