March 2021

Hook Solves Your BIGGEST PDF PAIN-Point

A professional’s most important information is often in PDF format: legal documents, peer-reviewed journal articles, memos, and so much more. However, before Hook, there were four huge problems with PDFs that share one thing in common. they tended to get scattered on your Mac, which meant you needed to file them in order to find […]

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Can Professors Learn to Read Better?

Whether you are a researcher, writer or student, odds are you’re hardly as good a reader as you can be. The reason is that information technology has made it harder to read for mastery. I demonstrated these problems (and solutions to them) in my two Cognitive Productivity books. Here, I will focus on two specific

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Hook Can Help You Navigate Your Social Media Posts

Social media use cases for Hook abound. Here’s one Smile Software published a blog post written by CogSci Apps co-founder, Luc P. Beaudoin: Creating Deep Links With Hook: A Worked Example – PDFpen Luc shared that link in a brief LinkedIn blog post. Those posts refer to a web page containing “extras” (a .zip file):

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Hook Update: Craft, GoodTask, PDF software, Screencasts

One of the great joys we have at CogSci Apps is interacting with leading developers who, by making their software’s data linkable via automation and an apt user interface, show that they value what David Sparks calls contextual computing and Seth Godin calls minimizing mode switching. Keep reading to learn about Hook’s integrations with Craft,

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