I wrote a review on this site for the disappointing Yojimbo, describing what I thought it would do, but didn't. Someone suggested I try out Curio, as they thought it was what I was looking for, and they were absolutely correct.

I'm often working on projects with lots of separate components (image files, sound files, quicktimes, pdfs, word docs, emails, kitchen sinks) filed all over the place.

Curio allows me to gather everything I need together in one place. Beyond that, it allows me to freely add/subtract notes, instructions, doodles, and other markings to help me remember what I'm supposed to be doing with all these odds and ends. And beyond that (and here's where it gets really good) Curio allows me to publish all of my odds and ends, notes, and whatever else to the web in one click. So co-workers can know what I know, and have the same files that I have, simply by pasting a link into a browser.

In the past month, I've use Curio through three separate projects, with stellar results. And, it's quickly changed the way things are done around here, for the better.

The program seems to run solidly for me, although, I have a co-worker that has been complaining of bugs when attempting to alter text. So in all fairness, I thought I should report that, even though I personally hadn't had a problem. Hopefully, with updates (or preference trashing) that should rectify itself. This co-worker is in a different state, so I haven't had a hands-on look at the problem.

But, despite some technical problems some co-workers may be having. There are zero operational problems, because Curio is extremely easy to use, and even the least tech savvy folks can figure it out within a few minutes of playing around with it. Drag, drop, draw, type. Not much of a learning curve. And, with the aforementioned web publishing, I can share my progress with anyone who can operate a browser, i.e. everyone.

So, Curio proves to be a very powerful way of getting everything (and everyone) together. And, it's amazingly free form and un-rigid way of operating, means that everyone can use that power however they may like, and without manuals and tutorials. It's worked for me, and if you've read this far, I'm pretty sure it will work for you too.