Here’s a copy of a newsletter we sent today to all Hookmark customers because it contains an urgent update. In this newsletter: Urgent: Please update to Hookmark 7.02 David Sparks’ Robot Assistant Field Guide Clean My Links Automate Hookmark files with Hazel Tip: How to hide Hookmark window at launch TidBITS interview of me re […]
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Our software company is called CogSci Apps for a reason: our software is designed with cognitive science in mind. Following Donald Schön, we recognize that one cannot directly infer engineering (or psychotherapy) from science—but one can design better systems by using science as a guiding resource.
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If you’ve ever copied a link and noticed it looks like this… https://www.amazon.ca/Enshittification-Everything-Suddenly-Worse-About/dp/0374619328/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._SjOlLplb7Z0Rvscl1ZihXsKv3j5PVjTYExbZMJmZuDtJLCIavbyJiKbtQJUy3Xn0bNemqglamuZWtNQzFB2_Q.x7nWZNgrA7o7I-w9roq4O53Ys4E1Wx9KWxrJHyQb-aY&dib_tag=se&gad_source=1&hvadid=788657704505&hvdev=c&hvexpln=0&hvlocphy=9001509&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=17902577840324087743–&hvqmt=b&hvrand=17902577840324087743&hvtargid=kwd-2078990547242&hydadcr=22430_13682881&keywords=enshittification&mcid=82e56b35149932d7aa07352f600aa68d&qid=1768014783&sr=8-1 …you’ve seen link junk (also called URL cruft)—tracking parameters added by websites, advertisers, and social platforms. These parameters don’t help the reader. They exist to track you. They also: clutter your links break readability make URLs fragile leak information when you share
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Links are the connective tissue of knowledge work. But most of the links we copy and share today are… a mess. They’re bloated with tracking parameters, session tokens, referral junk, and opaque identifiers—what we might simply call URL cruft. This cruft makes links: harder to read less trustworthy less stable and frankly, less pleasant to
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Anybox is a flexible collection tool for macOS and iOS that helps you save and organize more than just links. From notes and snippets to files, images, and ideas-in-progress, Anybox is designed for capturing material as you encounter it and keeping it meaningfully retrievable later. With a fast, Apple-native interface and thoughtful organization features, it
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We recently hosted an office hours session on using Hookmark for lawyers and writers. Here is the recording of the session: In this session I showed the usefulness of Hookmark for lawyers. I demonstrated many Hookmark commands (e.g., Hook to New (file and folder), Copy Link, Hook to Copied Link, Copy As Universal Link) using
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