Hookmark Pal Help

The main functions available in Hookmark Pal (companion for iPhone and iPad) are described here.

Four views

Hookmark Pal offers four main views. They are the

  • All view, which is a searchable list of all your bookmarks.
  • Focus view,
  • Pinned view, which shows your pinned bookmarks, and the
  • Tags view, which shows your tags.

The All, Pinned and Tags view are analogous to the corresponding Bookmark window views in Hookmark for Mac.

The Focused view is analogous to the Context window in Hookmark for Mac.

Focus view and the focus (clipboard) button

When you tap on the Focus view tab, you will see whatever link Hookmark Pal is currently focused on. Hookmark Pal will show you all the items that are “hooked” (bidirectionally linked) to the focus (link).

To focus on a particular link, either long-press on an existing link in Hookmark Pal and choose the focus command, or

  1. copy a link to the clipboard (you can do this from within Hookmark Pal by long-pressing on a link and choosing the Copy option; or from outside Hookmark as you normally would, such as from Safari using the Share sheet to copy the link)
  2. tap on the clipboard icon in the top right corner. This is known as the “focus” button”. When you tap on that, Hookmark Pal will check to see if there is a link in the clipboard and if so it will focus on that link. This means that it will show you whatever is hooked to that URL.

The clipboard icon is also known as the Focus on Link in Clipboard icon.

Link actions

Hookmark Pal shows you links.

  1. To rename a link, tap in the title of a link.
  2. to activate a link, tap on the URL part of a link.
  3. to access other commands by name, long press on a link. You’ll see: Focus, Copy, Hook to Copied Link, Share, Pin or Unpin, Tag, Delete and Select.
  4. to access these commands by icon, swipe left on a link.

Sync button

The cloud icon in the top right corner of the app’s home screen is to force iCloud synchronization. Normally users can ignore this button.

Be sure to enable sync in Hookmark’s Settings on any Mac whose links you want to see in Hookmark Pal.

What links are shown

With sync enabled on Mac and iPhone or iPad, Hookmark Pal shows all links from Hookmark for Mac except for hook://file/ links. These are not shown on the Pal side due to sandboxing restrictions in iOS and iPadOS.

Adding bookmarks to Hookmark

You can add bookmarks to Hookmark by using share sheets in other apps. For example, in Safari on a web page you want to bookmark in Hookmark Pal, click the share button, and then select Hookmark Pal from the list of apps.

Normally, most of the bookmarks in Hookmark Pal will come from Hookmark for Mac.

Usage examples and more help

There are some usage examples and additional help on the Hookmark Pal for iPhone and iPad home page.