Pleasant and Thought-Provoking

Pleasant and Thought-Provoking

A Huge Source of Distraction and How to Avoid It

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

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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Using Hook & OmniOutliner as a Contact Management System: Link a Contact to Meeting Minutes & More

Hook has always included a template mechanism and OmniOutliner templates allowing you to Hook to New > OmniOutliner documents. Hook 3.0, released Monday takes the Hook to New feature to an entirely new level. Hook 3.0 supports Hook to New > folders. This allows you to replicate, hook, mesh link, rename and tag an entire

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Hook Can Help You Navigate Your Social Media Posts

Social media use cases for Hook abound. Here’s one Smile Software published a blog post written by CogSci Apps co-founder, Luc P. Beaudoin: Creating Deep Links With Hook: A Worked Example – PDFpen Luc shared that link in a brief LinkedIn blog post. Those posts refer to a web page containing “extras” (a .zip file):

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Hook 1, 2, 3 Basic Concepts to Link Your Digital Life

Are you new to Hook? Or are you a seasoned Hook user? Whoever you are, this blog post will help you understand and explain three of Hook’s most beneficial innovations. Thanks to Hook, with one uniform gesture, you can obtain a link to almost any resource; you can address and access essential information that is

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