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Bookends: The Most Link-Friendly, Interoperable Reference Management Software on Earth

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I’m not only CEO of CogSci Apps Corp. I am also an adjunct professor of Cognitive Science and of Education at Simon Fraser University. I write academic papers and books. As such, I rely heavily on reference management software. When Readcube transitioned from Papers3 to Papers 2020, I realized I had to ditch the Papers …

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Quickly Insert Links in your Markdown Documents with Brett Terpstra’s SearchLink — Our Partner of the Month

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Hook is great for quickly copying and using links to almost anything. But what if you often need to insert links in your Markdown documents to webpages that you haven’t even visited yet? Or, you’ve bookmarked something (in Hook or a web browser) and want to insert a link to it directly in your Markdown …

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Great Timing! Instantly Navigate Between Your Time-tracking Projects and DEVONthink, Scrivener, Daylite and Other Information

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Time is our most precious resource. To ensure we are using our time wisely, we need to monitor how we spend it. Unfortunately, the human mind quickly forgets what it was doing. We can easily overestimate or underestimate the amount of time we spend doing certain things. So it’s essential to use technology to track …

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Hook on MacStories “Find Without Searching”

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MacStories is a daily publication about all things Apple that attracts millions of readers every month. We rely on MacStories too I myself (Luc P. Beaudoin) subscribe to “Club MacStories”. I look forward to their weekly email because it always contains thoughtful insights relevant to the Apple ecosystem in which I am a passionate participant. …

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Deep PDF Links Take You Right Where You Need to Focus

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2021-05-08 Update: Hook now also provides deep linking for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. See linkable apps. However, Hook aside, we recommend PDFpenPro and Skim for reading in depth (“delving”). PDFs are used to capture some of the most important, and best, information we all work with. If you’re a knowledge worker, an attorney, an …

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Take Deep Notes about Apple Books Using Outliners, Mind Mapping Apps, Task Managers, Spreadsheets, IDEs, and More

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In reading about brilliant minds, like Charles Darwin, Richard Feynman, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, you have probably learned that they tend to read, a lot. And they read deeply. This was recently illustrated in the Netflix documentary, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates. To read deeply, we need to take notes. The …

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