Productivity
Hookmark is a powerful bookmarking and linking tool, but it doesn’t need to do everything. Other utilities can complement it in useful ways. In a new Substack article, I explain how I use text expansion software (in my case, TextExpander) to access hundreds, perhaps more than a thousand, web links through a personal system of
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Many web links contain unnecessary tracking parameters and other clutter. These make URLs longer, harder to read, and potentially less private. Hookmark’s free Clean My Links feature automatically removes unnecessary information from web URLs, making them cleaner, easier to share, and more suitable for long-term use. In a new Substack article I explained why URL
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AI chats are very useful, but they’re even more useful when they are connected to the things they are about. Otherwise, it is too much trouble later to get back to them. Have you noticed that? We’ve just published a 4-minute video on How to Keep Useful AI Conversations at Your Fingertips: This screencasts shows
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Find Anything Later with Hookmark Search Links Most links point to something that already exists—a file, a note, a webpage, or an email. Hookmark can do something different. It can create a link to a search. Instead of linking to one item, it links to whatever matches your search whenever you open it. That means
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If you’ve ever copied a link and noticed it looks like this… https://www.amazon.ca/Enshittification-Everything-Suddenly-Worse-About/dp/0374619328/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._SjOlLplb7Z0Rvscl1ZihXsKv3j5PVjTYExbZMJmZuDtJLCIavbyJiKbtQJUy3Xn0bNemqglamuZWtNQzFB2_Q.x7nWZNgrA7o7I-w9roq4O53Ys4E1Wx9KWxrJHyQb-aY&dib_tag=se&gad_source=1&hvadid=788657704505&hvdev=c&hvexpln=0&hvlocphy=9001509&hvnetw=g&hvocijid=17902577840324087743–&hvqmt=b&hvrand=17902577840324087743&hvtargid=kwd-2078990547242&hydadcr=22430_13682881&keywords=enshittification&mcid=82e56b35149932d7aa07352f600aa68d&qid=1768014783&sr=8-1 …you’ve seen link junk (also called URL cruft)—tracking parameters added by websites, advertisers, and social platforms. These parameters don’t help the reader. They exist to track you. They also: clutter your links break readability make URLs fragile leak information when you share
The Best Ways to Clean Tracking Junk from URLs (2026 Guide) Read More »
Intro (blog context) I often write to CEOs of macOS app development companies to encourage them to make their software link-friendly. I’ve decided to start sharing some of these emails on this blog so that the broader community—developers, power users, and productivity thinkers—can join the conversation and help move the ecosystem forward. Below is a
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