Hookmark Pal 1.0.4 and 1.1 Updates, Tinderbox 11, Carbon Copy Cloner, Discount Coupon and More

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Hookmark Pal 1.0.4 and 1.1: Expanding Your Linked Universe

We’ve been busy improving both Hookmark and Hookmark Pal.
Hookmark Pal 1.0.4 has been released, addressing a scrolling issue on some iOS 26 devices.

Shortly after 1.0.4, Hookmark Pal 1.1 will arrive with something special: support for the hook://contacts, hook://photos and hook://iCal URL schemes. This means that on your iPhone or iPad you’ll be able to open Contacts, Photos and Calendar entries you’ve bookmarked on Hookmark for Mac — or anywhere else.

The first time you use one of these links in Hookmark Pal, you’ll be prompted to install a Shortcuts automation to resolve the URLs. Once that’s done, your people, places, and memories will be just a tap away.

Keep up to date with Hookmark Pal from the App Store to help you link your digital life on mobile.

Mac Power Users #820: The Apple Productivity Suite

We are delighted to have sponsored Mac Power Users. At 0:37:34 into Episode #820: The Apple Productivity Suite Field Guide you’ll hear our ad. It was read by David Sparks, who is a long time Hookmark user. In fact, he hosted me on Mac Power Users way back in 2020 (episode 580), which remains relevant.

Tinderbox: Hookmark’s Partner of the Month

Tinderbox is Hookmark’s Partner of the Month for October.

Tinderbox is a powerful tool for notes, ideas, and visual thinking. It’s indispensable for researchers, writers, and knowledge workers making sense of complex information. The new Tinderbox 11 introduces an eye-catching Information City visualization and a bridge to conversational AI. Most intriguingly, AIs themselves can now take notes in Tinderbox.

That makes Tinderbox an even more natural companion for Hookmark, which links your evolving ideas across every app you use.

How Hookmark Integrates with Other Software

Hookmark connects information from link-friendly apps in two main ways:

  1. App integrations — letting you copy and hook links from any link-friendly app per the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. You can inspect or edit these integrations in the Scripts pane.
  2. Connected services — configured in the Services tab, which can automatically add and sync bookmarks to services such as Instapaper, Linkding, GoodLinks, and Pinboard.

In Hookmark 7.x, more services will be added — and it will be the first app to sync tags across multiple bookmarking apps.

New Integration: Unclutter Now Link-Friendly

Unclutter (by Eugene Krupnov, UJ.Labs) was our Partner of the Month in September. As part of that collaboration, Eugene made Unclutter link-friendly — and we followed up by adding integration scripts.

You can now use Hookmark to link to Unclutter’s files and notes directly.
Unclutter keeps your files, notes, and clipboard data close at hand — hidden until you summon it with a single gesture. You’ll need to ensure that Hookmark’s Context window is placed below the Unclutter window, otherwise Unclutter will occlude it.

Hook to New Tinderbox Note

Our integration with Tinderbox 11 now supports Hookmark’s Hook to New command — so you can create, hook, name, and store new Tinderbox notes in one action.

Calling Tinderbox Automators

Many Hookmark users are also Tinderbox experts. When I was guest Speaker at the October 25 Tinderbox Meetup, it became clear that our integrations could go even further.

Imagine a feature that previews images referenced by hook://file links — much like Marked 2 already does.

Or a script that visualizes in Tinderbox the network of items hooked to the current note. This could easily be done with a free graphing library such as Mermaid: “Faster, smarter diagramming for teams — with markdown-style code and AI.”

Any takers?

Carbon Copy Cloner and Other New Integrations

Hookmark can now be used with Carbon Copy Cloner which provides advanced backup and copying for macOS! This allows you to create and link detailed notes, in the app of your choice, about your backup tasks!

Hookmark has also added integration for MindNode Next (Setapp and standalone versions) and the App Store version of Spark Desktop.

If your Updates license is current, you’ll automatically receive these integration updates. See Hookmark’s Updates settings for details.

Beeper Becoming Link-Friendly

The Beeper CEO, Kishan Bagaria, has confirmed that Beeper will become a link-friendly Mac app later this year.
Kishan recognizes the kinship between Hookmark and Beeper — two apps that connect data from many sources. This commitment reflects the growing influence of the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking, which you can sign too.

Marked 3

Brett Terpstra will soon release version 3 of his famous markdown previewer: Marked – The Ultimate Markdown Preview and Converter. And of course it’s link-friendly! Brett published A quick look at Marked 3

What If Your App Isn’t Link-Friendly?

If one of your favorite apps still doesn’t support linking, you can help!
Contact its developer using this template.

We’re currently encouraging Readwise Reader and Raindrop.io to become link-friendly so users can connect their reading data to anything with a URL. You can let them know how much you’d enjoy using their app with Hookmark.

Using Hookmark with AI

From the first days of AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Hookmark has made it easy to link your AI conversations to what they’re about.

For example, when I asked ChatGPT about PopClip, I hooked the chat to PopClip’s website. Now each side of the link — the chat and the app — has a bookmark to the other.

Another great use case: hook a knowledge-dense PDF to your AI chat about it. When both are bookmarked, invoking Hookmark’s Context window (⌃H) on either one will often reveal the other in the “RELATED” section automatically.

You don’t need to be a cognitive scientist to appreciate the benefit — this is how we turn isolated chats into enduring knowledge links.

Cognitive Productivity with macOS

This month, I updated all the 85+ videos in Cognitive Productivity with macOS: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge. The resolution is now much better. I also made misc updates to the book, and I will keep updating it.

Here’s a discount coupon URL for 50% off that book on Leanpub.com, valid till Thanksgiving: https://leanpub.com/cognitive-productivity-macos/c/new-videos.

You can let me know what further updates you’d like to see to the book.

Recommended Reading

Mark Bernstein, developer of Tinderbox, recently reflected on a timeless design problem:
Designing Amiable Web Spaces: Lessons from Vienna’s Café Culture

“How can we design for amiability? This is not just a matter of choosing rounded typefaces and a cheerful pastel palette. I believe we may identify eight distinct issues that exert design forces in usefully amiable directions.”

To continue the conversation, join us in our amiable web space, the Hookmark Discourse Forum.

Thanks for reading,
Luc P. Beaudoin
CEO, CogSci Apps Corp.
I’m active on Substack, Medium, Mastodon (fediscience), and X.com.