Hookmark 7.2: Smarter PDF Links, Office Hours, Tips and What’s Coming Soon

Today’s newsletter:

Dear Hookmark newsletter subscriber,

I’m writing to announce Hookmark 7.2—and to share a preview of where Hookmark is heading.

Our vision is for Hookmark to become more than a personal linking tool.
We want it to become the best way to navigate your personal knowledge
graph: not only the explicit links you’ve created, but also the rich web
of relationships that already exist among your documents, emails, web
pages, tasks, notes, and bookmarks.

In this letter:

• Hookmark 7.2
• Hookmark 7.3 and Beyond
• Announcing Cotypist for Mac
• Hookmark for Academics and Other
• We are hiring!
• 💡 Tip: Link to earlier emails
• 💡 Tip: Use Hookmark’s Finder Services

Hookmark 7.2

Hookmark 7.2 makes it easier to discover related information, work with
multiple items at once, and connect more of your favorite apps.

In Hookmark Version 7.2 (6635; Integration v. 420):

• When you invoke Hookmark in a PDF, the RELATED section of the
  Context window can now show related links embedded in the PDF, such
  as its home page based on the document’s DOI or footer.
• The Context window now supports multi-selection.
• Added support for Octarine and Apple Maps.
• Updated integration with the latest versions of BusyCal and
  Capacities.
• Plus several other improvements.

See the Hookmark 7.2 Release Notes.

Hookmark 7.3 and Beyond

Tags are incredibly useful, but they’re fragmented across apps. Hookmark
aims to change that by synchronizing its tags with Finder tags, Pinboard
tags, DEVONthink tags, and more (please let us know which apps you’d
like Hookmark to sync with). Hookmark will also gain the ability to
import bookmarks from Pinboard and other bookmarking services.

We’re also investing heavily in the RELATED section of Hookmark’s
Context window (⌥⌘R). Our goal is to help you discover information
related to what you’re working on—even when you never explicitly
linked it in Hookmark. In the near term, we’ll focus on surfacing web
pages related to the current PDF, such as papers that cite it or are
cited by it.

Hookmark 7.3 will deepen its integration with the excellent Bookends reference manager. It will also provide more features.

If there are tagging enhancements, RELATED improvements, or other
capabilities you’d like to see, we’d love to hear from you

Announcing Cotypist for Mac

Cotypist has launched! It enables you to type as fast as you can think.
Cotypist predicts your next words in every Mac app — on your Mac, not in the cloud. Press Tab to accept. Eerily good at picking up on what you’re about to write.

Check it out.

Hookmark for Academics and Other Researchers

We have explained the value proposition of Hookmark for academics here. If you are an academic we would appreciate referrals to the relevant offices at your institution, such as its research commons or learning commons.

We would also appreciate testimonials. Just reply to this email.

Thank you!

We are hiring!

Do you love Hookmark and understand academic workflows or legal workflows?

We are looking for a Hookmark Sales Manager, with a focus on academic sales and sales to legal professionals.

Office Hours July 13 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM

You are cordially invited to join me for Hookmark Office hours on Monday July 13 from 11:00AM to 12:00PM. We will discuss using Hookmark for academics and with AI. I will also invite you to ask me questions about Hookmark.
Join Zoom Meeting @ https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5655357876?pwd=djZlRFEydlNrQTNXNGlwVjFkTG10QT09&omn=87195400889.

💡 Tip: Link to earlier emails

When replying to an email, you can insert a hook://email link to an
earlier message. Clicking the link takes the recipient directly to that
email (provided they’re using Hookmark, including the free edition).

I often use a TextExpander abbreviation in the P.S. section immediately after the pasted link:

my TextExpander abbreviation is: <email
the ship is: [← Hookmark link to prior email]

That way the recipient knows what you’re linking to.

💡 Tip: Use Hookmark’s Finder Services

We recently retired Hookmark’s Finder extension because Apple’s Finder
extension framework has proven unreliable. Instead:

1. Control-click one or more files in Finder.
2. Choose Services.
3. Select Hookmark.
4. Choose the Hookmark command you want.

Available commands include:

• Hookmark: Copy As Markdown Link(s)
• Hookmark: Copy Link(s)
• Hookmark: Hook Selected Files Together
• Hookmark: Hook to Copied Link(s)
• Hookmark: Show Hookmark Context Window

These are very quick ways of using Hookmark’s commands on one or more files.

Thank you

Thank you for using Hookmark.

If you haven’t already, please update to Hookmark 7.2—and enjoy your
summer!

Luc P. Beaudoin
Co-founder, CogSci Apps Corp.

P.S. Please follow us:

• Substack, LinkedIn, Mastodon, and/or X.com.
• Checkout our Hookmark videos
• my e-books: Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective and Cognitive Productivity with macOS: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge.