Author name: Luc Beaudoin

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

Truely linking your Obsidian-based thinking to anything that has a URL by using Hookmark

Nic Milo has done a good job of explaining how to link your thinking within Obsidian. What to my knowledge he has yet to cover is how to link your Obsidian notes to content outside Obsidian. Without Hookmark you can only link your Obsidian notes to each other. Sure you can paste links to web […]

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Interviewed by Jorge Arango on The Informed Life Podcast

The Informed Life Podcast explores how people organize information to get things done. Information is key to deciding and acting. I was interviewed by Jorge Arango about Hookmark on that podcast. The interview was published yesterday. Show notes: In this conversation, we discuss the origins and philosophy of Hookmark, the concept of ubiquitous linking and

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Survey results: statistics about launcher usage (Launchbar vs. Raycast vs. Alfred) by Hookmark users

Launchers — LaunchBar, Alfred, and Raycast — are amongst the most popular productivity utilities for macOS. Have you ever wondered which launcher is the most popular? We don’t know the definitive truth about this. However, we did a survey in which we asked Hookmark users several questions regarding their use of launchers. 1. Launcher usage

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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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