Pleasant and Thought-Provoking

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking

How Hookmark Supercharges Deep Work: A Tool for Cal Newport Fans

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking, Productivity / /

If you’re a fan of Cal Newport’s concept of Deep Work—the ability to focus without distraction on cognitively demanding tasks—you already know the importance of protecting attention, minimizing context-switching, and organizing your digital life to support flow. But applying these principles in a modern knowledge-work environment can be tough. That’s where Hookmark comes in. Hookmark […]

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

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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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💡 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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A Huge Source of Distraction and How to Avoid It

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Last month, I published my first post on Medium, an anniversary piece: Do Deeper Work Thanks to The Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. Being able to rapidly access information is a hallmark of expertise enabled by various brain mechanisms underlying human consciousness. For example, chess experts can rapidly (as in within seconds) encode the exact configurations

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Hooked on the Copy Link Habit

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Can you imagine working on your Mac without Copy and Paste? Nor can we. But guess what. There’s another command that is just as important; it’s Copy Link, which gives you a link to the currently selected or open resource. You can paste the link anywhere you like, so that you can quickly get back

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Learn OmniFocus: On Living a Fulfilling & Productive Life With OmniFocus and Complementary Apps & Services

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking, Showcases / /

Learn OmniFocus is a unique company founded by Tim Stringer, who has been providing OmniFocus coaching, consulting and training to people all over the world since 2010. While OmniFocus is the common software denominator of Learn OmniFocus, Learn OmniFocus reaches well beyond its eponymous app. Learn OmniFocus hosts a community of members who value Tim’s

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