While you can drop images, movie clips, pdfs, and other files into the scrapbook (basically a snippet library spanning curio documents), but you can't throw anythng you draw with the basic shape tools and so forth into the scrapbook. In other words, you have to either redraw objects every time you want them (styling them, etc), or you can go to somewhere else in your document where you remember having created a similar graphic and copy and paste it (time waster). What's more, the ability to group objects and other items is terrible indeed. There is no cropping or compositing functionality eiither, basic functionalities that are offered by Apple's Development Framework Kit.

Speaking of which, Curio also misses the mark big time by not utilizing the simple elegance of Apple's system wide Font Window and Color Palette exclusively. They try and add some of their own control over certain attributes in their own exceptionally lame and lacking inspector. Try using OmniGraffle's inspectors which offer precision control over formatting and so forth, along with integrating it all with the well-known system wide font and color interface standard; then jump over to Curio and you'll feel like a right footed punter kicking with your left.

The graphics are terrible, lists are bulky and aesthetically old and tired, the overall experience has the blocky, 2D feel of a Windows 95 application. Not alot of thought was put into workflow either.

I also tried turnnig on mini-mode in order to quickly drag and drop images into a project from Safari while surfing (because the integrated Sleuth search utility is very, very lame and borderline worthless), and while it was nice to be able to quickly drag and drop urls and images to the little boxed window which I placed over on my second monitor, like most apps, I maximized it expecting it to enlarge back to the position I had it before on the main display, but instead it clumsily enlarged itself to my smaller, second monitor, where the mini-mode had been positioned. It can't even remember window preferences.

This application is FILLED with little nagging disappointments like that, and they add up fast! I knew it was time to dump this clunker as soon as I found myself going back and forth between OmniGraffle and Curio waaaay too often. I'd head to OmniGraffle to throw together a list and/or some outlines, and other object/chart type graphics, because Curio's are so awful.

Do yourself a favor, pass on this one and never look back. Ever!