Author name: Luc Beaudoin

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

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

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking, Tips and Tricks / /

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?

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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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💡 Script Debugger, our Partner of the Month of April, is ideal for editing Hookmark’s Integration Scripts

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Hookmark Pro users can customize how Hookmark interacts with any given app by editing the appropriate integration script in the Scripts tab, which is in Hookmark’s settings (“preferences”). Integration scripts can be written in AppleScript or JavaScript. Our script editor is very rudimentary. These scripts can be written and edited in Apple’s script editor. However,

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💡 Tip: How to Copy Quotes and Deep Links to PDFs in DEVONthink (and other apps)

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If you are a knowledge worker (lawyer, academic, etc.) then you work deeply with a ton of PDF files. You often need to refer to specific locations of a PDF file. Hookmark has you covered. Hookmark makes it very easy to get a deep link to a specific PDF location in DEVONthink (and other apps),

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Mimestream is Hookmark’s Partner of the Month of March

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We are delighted that Mimestream 1.3, just released, adds compatibility with Hookmark! That means Mimestream is now a linkable app, conforming to the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. So it’s with great pleasure that we announce that Mimestream is Hookmark’s Partner of the Month of March 2024. Mimestream is a native macOS email client for Gmail:

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Hookmark Extends and Accelerates Your Consciousness: In accordance with Merlin Donald’s Theory of Consciousness

Cognitive Science, Hookmark Discussed on the Web / /

CogSci Apps inventions, including Hookmark, are based on cognitive science. Hookmark is partially based on the Multiple Component Convergence theory of Consciousness developed by Canadian cognitive neuroscientist, Merlin Donald (@ Queens University). The basis for this is explained in some detail by me on medium.com In a nutshell, the ability to rapidly load information into

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