Author name: Luc Beaudoin

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

BBEdit from Bare Bones Software, Partner for the Month of August, a Powerful Link-friendly HTML and text Editor for macOS

BBEdit is a powerful text and code editor specifically for macOS, developed by Bare Bones Software. Since its release in 1992, it has become a favorite among web developers, writers, and software engineers. We use it daily here at CogSci Apps. BBEdit is a link-friendly app, so it is fully compatible with Hookmark. Rich Siegel […]

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Productivity Suite from the Omni Group, July’s Partner for the Month, a Perfect Fit for Linking with Hookmark

Ken Case, CEO of The Omni Group, was an original signatory of the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. So it’s no surprise that The Omni Group apps — OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle and OmniPlan— are linkable. The Omni Group has long been a role model for us here at CogSci Apps Corp. (since even before we incorporated).

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DEVONthink is Hookmark’s partner of the month of June

DEVONthink is a powerful knowledge management tool that complements Hookmark very well. DEVONthink can work with information in its database and it can index folders on the Finder. DEVONthink has a famously powerful search tool. For instance, it enables you to search for items containing text that is near other text. Information in DEVONthink’s database

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Hookmark’s file links

You wouldn’t want to live with web links, so why should you be without links to files? One of Hookmark’s key sets of features is its adaptive file links, which are praised considerably. These links help users satisfy the 2s rule of cognitive productivity. We’ve explained these concepts in a recent forum topic. The details

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💡 Understanding hooks: easy for some, initially more difficult for others

I find it fascinating that given two equally intelligent, technically minded people, one of them will immediately understand the concept of “hook”. In contrast, the other one will take a while to understand it. What makes understanding hooks difficult for some? hooks are created and shown in an ephemeral popup window; unlike products with similar

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Why flag emails when you can copy links to them instead?

You probably know that Hookmark enable you to create links to email messages. But do you know that those links can be consumed in the free version of Hookmark, Hookmark basic. In fact Hookmark Basic (free tier) can consume any hook:// link including hook://file/ links and hook://email/ links. If there’s an important email message you

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