Nic Milo has done a good job of explaining how to link your thinking within Obsidian. What to my knowledge he has yet to cover is how to link your Obsidian notes to content outside Obsidian. Without Hookmark you can only link your Obsidian notes to each other. Sure you can paste links to web pages in your Obsidian notes. But you can’t paste links to your notes in web pages. Nor can you link other information — like PDFs, tasks and emails — to or from your Obsidian notes.
Hookmark removes all these barriers. With Hookmark you can bidirectionally link your Obsidian notes to anything that has a URL (including custom URL schemes created by Hookmark): not just web pages, but emails, files, tasks, calendar entries, and so much more.
- instantly create and hook new Obsidian notes to what they are about, using the
Hook to New > Obsidiancommand. This command also pastes a link to the source right in your Obsidian note, giving you two different ways to navigate back to the source (the hook and the in-line link). - hook your existing notes to just about anything, using the
Copy LinkandHook to Copied Linkcommands together. - create .hookmark files (anywhere in Finder) that link to your Obsidian note
- search all your Obsidian bookmarks
Once you get the hang of Hook to New, you’ll find yourself creating and using more notes in Obsidian.