Author name: Luc Beaudoin

Luc P. Beaudoin Co-founder, CogSci Apps Corp. My Cognitive Productivity books.

Long Live Link-friendly Apps! Celebrating the Three-year Anniversary of the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking

If you are like many knowledge workers, on a typical day you access over dozens of information resources. If you have to use search or navigate through folders to get to them, you’re taking a big hit on productivity. It’s much easier to access a resource by clicking on a contextually placed link than it […]

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How to Paste Links in Apple Mail With the Title, Not Just the URL

Have you ever tried to paste a well-formatted link (one that has both a title and a URL) into Apple Mail and been frustrated that it shows up only as a URL? Well you are not alone! Ever since macOS 14, Apple Mail has had a bug in it, or maybe a new stultifying “feature”,

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Link Your Zotero PDFs to Almost Anything, with Hookmark

Productive academics treat their PDF database as a treasure trove for writing their own papers, giving lectures, and learning. The hidden friction in using a PDF is the effort required to find information about the PDF that is scattered across different apps and locations, such as Notes, Tasks, web pages, emails and files. Hookmark solves

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About Hookmark’s Badge

We recently introduced a Hookmark badge, which attaches to the current window. This is useful when onboarding because Hookmark’s context window is otherwise available only from a keyboard shortcut or through the menu bar window. Without the badge, some new users might be confused about how to get to the Context window. The badge is

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Hookmark 6.4 with Badge, Finder Services, Work-around for Apple Mail’s bug, and more

Hookmark Version 6.4 (6099; Integration v. 340) is now available for download. NEW: A badge icon is available which attaches itself to the right edge of the window (sometimes it’s a bit off). Clicking it reveals a few commands. It can be shown and hidden via the General Preferences pane (and elsewhere). NEW: We’ve added

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Navigating the contextual network of information of HOOKED and INDIRECTLY HOOKED items

When you get in the habit of hooking items together, Hookmark accumulates a growing network of information resources. You can navigate this network to your heart’s content. Hookmark’s context window offers two different contextual ways to access this network. You can use the built-in navigator; or the INDIRECTLY HOOKED section. Let’s suppose you have the

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