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Discover Hook with this New ScreenCastsOnline Video

ScreenCastsOnline is a large and growing library of high quality video tutorials that help customers learn about great software, including Hook productivity, to do more and better work with their Apple devices! ScreenCastsOnline first covered Hook when Hook was still in private beta May 2019. Since then Hook has changed a lot. This week, ScreenCastsOnline …

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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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Deep PDF Links Take You Right Where You Need to Focus

2021-05-08 Update: Hook now also provides deep linking for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. See linkable apps. However, Hook aside, we recommend PDFpenPro and Skim for reading in depth (“delving”). PDFs are used to capture some of the most important, and best, information we all work with. If you’re a knowledge worker, an attorney, an …

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Much Ado About Hook: 2.0+; Smile Black Friday to Cyber Monday ; Apple Notes & Obsidian; Hook Liaisons; Surveys, MPU on Cognitive Productivity

By now you are likely aware that we recently released Hook 2.0. In this post, we round up the improvements, provide a Black Friday discount coupon code, and look to the future Gifting or recommending Hook productivity? 30%… If you’d like to gift Hook licenses to yourself or others, until end of Monday you may …

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Hook Mac App: Version 1.1.1, and Its Past, Present and Future

We recently released version 1.1 of the Hook cognitive productivity app for macOS, which delivers a number of enhancements and fixes. In particular, Hook now has a “welcome board” to help you get started with it. We followed this up with version 1.1.1. That is two updates in less 3 weeks since the official 1.0 …

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