Author name: Luc Beaudoin

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

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

Tips and Tricks / /

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

Showcases / /

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

Announcements / /

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

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking / /

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

Announcements / /

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

Announcements, Showcases / /

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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