Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

How to Paste Links in Apple Mail With the Title, Not Just the URL

Have you ever tried to paste a well-formatted link (one that has both a title and a URL) into Apple Mail and been frustrated that it shows up only as a URL? Well you are not alone! Ever since macOS 14, Apple Mail has had a bug in it, or maybe a new stultifying “feature”, […]

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About Hookmark’s Badge

We recently introduced a Hookmark badge, which attaches to the current window. This is useful when onboarding because Hookmark’s context window is otherwise available only from a keyboard shortcut or through the menu bar window. Without the badge, some new users might be confused about how to get to the Context window. The badge is

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

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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Hookmark’s file links

You wouldn’t want to live with web links, so why should you be without links to files? One of Hookmark’s key sets of features is its adaptive file links, which are praised considerably. These links help users satisfy the 2s rule of cognitive productivity. We’ve explained these concepts in a recent forum topic. The details

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💡 Understanding hooks: easy for some, initially more difficult for others

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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Why flag emails when you can copy links to them instead?

You probably know that Hookmark enable you to create links to email messages. But do you know that those links can be consumed in the free version of Hookmark, Hookmark basic. In fact Hookmark Basic (free tier) can consume any hook:// link including hook://file/ links and hook://email/ links. If there’s an important email message you

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