Hook 3.8: Shortcuts, New Advanced Preference Pane, and Agenda 15 Integration Updates

Announcements, Releases, Showcases / By / September 29, 2022

Following very helpful feedback from beta testers (thank you!), we recently released Hook 3.8. Hook Pro users can now create Apple Shortcuts to automatically connect and navigate their most important information! For example, you can create new items and hook them together; focus on particular bookmarks; retrieve all your bookmarks; filter out the bookmarks for …

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Quickly Insert Links in your Markdown Documents with Brett Terpstra’s SearchLink — Our Partner of the Month

Productivity, Showcases, Uncategorized / By / September 23, 2022

Hook is great for quickly copying and using links to almost anything. But what if you often need to insert links in your Markdown documents to webpages that you haven’t even visited yet? Or, you’ve bookmarked something (in Hook or a web browser) and want to insert a link to it directly in your Markdown …

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Fastmarks by Retina Studio is our Partner of the Month! Search and Open Your Bookmarks Fast

Hook Discussed on the Web, Showcases / By / September 13, 2022

My main professional goal is to help smart people become more effective information processors. More generally, I help them become more effective people by way of their technology-enabled information processing. This is the purpose of cognitive productivity. An essential aspect of cognitive productivity is being able to rapidly re-access helpful information.

How Could You More Efficiently Access Your Contacts? Enter Daylite and Hook

Announcements, Showcases / By / July 31, 2022

Last year I blogged about Using Hook & OmniOutliner as a Contact Management System. I wrote: So, we’ve included in Hook’s ‘built-in templates’ folder a folder called Contact info & meetings – OmniOutliner which turns OmniOutliner into one of the world’s most versatile and user friendly contact management systems. (We also have a plain text …

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Hook turns 3!

Announcements / By / August 1, 2022

On July 10, 2019 Hook 1.0 emerged from public beta and officially launched. Hook has remained true to our original vision, as quoted in the original press release on PRMac: “Deep work requires quickly accessing documents from your Mac. Unfortunately, filing and searching are distracting, slow and effortful,” shares Luc Beaudoin, a cognitive scientist and …

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ThoughtAsylum: Hook automation with Obsidian, Keyboard Maestro and Obsidian

Hook Discussed on the Web / By / June 7, 2022

Bloggers and Youtubers have produced a lot of content about Hook. Lately Stephen Millard @sylumer tweeted about a few of his posts about using Hook with Apple Shortcuts, Keyboard Maestro and Obsidian I have more than a few automations 🤓😉, and I do like to try and document them as much as possible in @obsdmd. …

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