We all know the feeling: you’ve stepped away from a project—maybe for a few hours, maybe for weeks—and now you’re ready to dive back in. But where exactly do you start?
With Hookmark, picking up where you left off is frictionless. Here are five quick ways to resume your work, each leveraging Hookmark’s powerful bookmarking and linking features:
1. Use the Recent Tab in the Bookmarks Window
Hookmark automatically tracks everything you’ve recently interacted with. Just open the Bookmarks window and click the Recent tab. There’s a good chance the file, web page, or note you need is right at the top. It’s like a breadcrumb trail for your mind.
2. Check Your Pinned Bookmarks in the Bookmarks window
Pinned bookmarks are perfect for key resources you return to regularly—your project brief, a main document, or a central folder. Keep them pinned in Hookmark and resume work with a single click. It’s like leaving tools out on your workbench, ready to use.
3. Search by Tags in the Bookmarks window
Tag your project resources with a common label (e.g., projectX). Later, just search tag:projectX in the Bookmarks window to view everything you’ve linked under that tag. This gives you a project-centric view that cuts across apps and file types.
4. Start from Any Resource That’s Hooked
Hookmark’s magic lies in its bidirectional links, called “hooks”. If you’ve hooked related items together—say, a PDF to a note, or a web article to a task—you can resume work from any one of them. Open any linked resource, invoke Hookmark, and follow the links to re-enter your project’s context.
Hooks can instantly be created with the Hook to New command, Hook to Copied Link, the menu bar window or other means.
5. Use Hookmark’s Search to Find What You’re Looking For
Can’t recall where you saved the file? Or it’s too much trouble to navigate to it or to search with Spotlight? Use the Hookmark window’s universal search bar) to type part of a title or address (e.g., a containing folder). You’ll find bookmarks, tags, and linked items—even across different apps. It’s a superpowered “Where was I?” tool.
By combining these strategies, Hookmark helps you re-enter flow with minimal cognitive overhead. The more you use Hookmark to link and organize your work, the easier it is to resume it later—whether that’s after a coffee break or a sabbatical.
The signal-to-noise ratio is lower in Hookmark than in any other search tool for the Mac (e.g., launchers, Spotlight, etc.). Hookmark’s database accumulates the most relevant information, not junk.
Want to see this in action? Try pinning your current project folder, tagging the key resources, or creating some hooks. Next time you return, you’ll thank yourself.
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