Front Matter Podcast on Hook and Cognitive Productivity with macOS
I was interviewed by Len Epp on the Leanpub Front Matter Podcast. Leanpub is the main bookstore on which my first two Cognitive Productivity books were published.
SFU, Lifehacker, Mac Generation and LinkedIn Articles Regarding Hook
Yesterday, SFU Communications published an “Issues & Experts” article about Hook: New app designed to ‘hook’ together users’ digital lives – University Communications – Simon Fraser University On LinkedIn, I followed up with an article that summarizes the problems that Hook is designed to solve, how it solves them, and the expected benefits of solving …
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Hook Productivity with nvALT and Marked 2 apps by Brett Terpstra
Markdown streamlines my writing. And Markdown apps like Marked 2 and nvALT, both by Brett Terpstra, supercharge my Markdown workflows. I use Marked 2 to preview every significant document I write in Markdown — including my blog posts. I use nvALT on a daily basis to write notes on my Mac that sync on iOS. …
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MailMate: Powerful, Flexible, Efficient, Standards Compliant, Secure and Markdown Enabled IMAP Email Client for Your Mac
MailMate delivers the benefits of Markdown to your email workflows, and much more. (Check out the MailMate website). What’s more, MailMate works perfectly with Hook. Not only can you link Markdown messages to any resource using the Hook productivity window or menu bar icon. Because MailMate fully supports Markdown, you can also insert Markdown links …
About “Copy as Link”
Here’s a Discourse forum tip regarding Why pasting after “Copy as Link” sometimes yield the copied TITLE rather than the copied ADDRESS”. the short answer is that the receiving app decides what to do with the copy/paste buffer. 99% of apps will take the address (URL) ; but not all apps treat the PasteBoard as …
Learning Hook Is Like Switching from Touch ID to Face ID iPhones
Welcome to the Hook Productivity blog! There’s a little dance that you learn to get around iPhones that lack a Home button. Similarly, when you learn to use Hook, you learn a new “dance” to navigate around resources—i.e., content on your Mac, in the cloud, in a VCS (version control system, like Git), or on …
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