Brainstorming Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Everything cool about Curio just got better

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 11th, 2012)

Curio, one of my long-time favorite brainstorming and project management applications, has received a massive update with version 8. If you've never seen Curio, it's a highly visual environment for collecting information, lists, mind maps, websites, PDFs, emails and much more into organized ...

Mindjet 9 for Mac due June 23, iPad/iPhone versions mid-June

by Michael Rose (Jun 1st, 2011)

If you're a mind mapping maven, you'll be happy to know that one of the premiere apps in the market (more than 1.8 million paying customers), Mindjet, is moving forward to a new Mac version of MindManager. Version 9 of MindManager is scheduled to ship on June 23, and will cost US$129 for ...

New Core version of Curio in the Mac App Store

by Brett Terpstra (May 16th, 2011)

We've mentioned the brainstorming, mind mapping, project managing notebook application Curio a few times before. The full version, Curio Professional, runs US$169.99, and the Standard version is $119.99, and both are well worth it in this blogger's opinion. Today, however, Curio announced a new ...

Notable iPad apps

by Brett Terpstra (May 16th, 2010)

The iPad is great for a lot of tasks, but one area of potential appeals to me more than any other: brainstorming and note taking. I'm not alone, judging from the outcropping of specialized apps for doing just this. I haven't had the time (or money) to hunt down and experiment with every note-taking ...

Curio 6.1 gets even more creative and productive

by Brett Terpstra (Oct 15th, 2009)

I wrote about Curio last year, and the past few months have brought quite a few additions to this creative brainstorming and productivity powerhouse. We already saw Evernote integration, and between the last two releases (6.0 and 6.1) Curio has added support for tables, "figure stencils," better ...

Friday Favorite: Curio

by Brett Terpstra (Dec 12th, 2008)

I've been looking for a project management solution for a long, long time. I've tried everything from homemade systems -- based on folders and Spotlight tagging -- to attempting to bend applications such as Bento to do what I really want: collect my notes, work-in-progress files, communications and ...

VoodooPad 4.0 provides WebDAV sync

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 18th, 2008)

VoodooPad got a major upgrade today; after an intense beta period, version 4.0 is live. For those of you not familiar, VoodooPad is a personal wiki, a brainstorming and note-taking tool and the ultimate "geek's notebook" (my term, not theirs). With the ability to import a variety of files and link ...

Curio 5.3 is out

by Brett Terpstra (Nov 18th, 2008)

I'm currently working on a piece detailing exactly why Zengobi's Curio has become a favorite of mine, especially in the area of project management and brainstorming, but also in general as a truly enjoyable-to-use application. In the meantime, though, I thought I'd better get an announcement out for ...

Curio Back to School special

by Brett Terpstra (Aug 27th, 2008)

If you're looking for a creative application to collect and organize notes, ideas and more, check out Curio. Curio provides a free-form interface for collecting pages which can contain notes, images, links to files, mind maps, sketches -- just about anything you'd need to get ideas and notes out of ...

MindNode - Free mind mapping for Leopard

by Jason Clarke (Apr 9th, 2008)

Mind mapping seems to be one of those things that you either get, or just don't. For those who do, there's a new player in town. MindNode is a free Leopard-only mind mapping application from Markus Müller, based in Austria. The application is by no means feature-rich; in fact, it's so simple ...