Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Clean My Links™: Make Every Link You Share Better

Links are the connective tissue of knowledge work. But most of the links we copy and share today are… a mess. They’re bloated with tracking parameters, session tokens, referral junk, and opaque identifiers—what we might simply call URL cruft. This cruft makes links: harder to read less trustworthy less stable and frankly, less pleasant to […]

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Recording of Office Hours on Using Hookmark for Lawyers

We recently hosted an office hours session on using Hookmark for lawyers and writers. Here is the recording of the session: In this session I showed the usefulness of Hookmark for lawyers. I demonstrated many Hookmark commands (e.g., Hook to New (file and folder), Copy Link, Hook to Copied Link, Copy As Universal Link) using

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Developers Lose Time to Lost Context—Hookmark Fixes That

I’m always surprised when I learn that a software developer is aware of Hookmark but does not use it. It suggests I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining the value proposition to developers, because surely it is a huge one. I therefore enlisted ChatGPT to help pressure-test the explanation below against real developer

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5 Easy Ways to Resume Working on a Project with Hookmark

We all know the feeling: you’ve stepped away from a project—maybe for a few hours, maybe for weeks—and now you’re ready to dive back in. But where exactly do you start? With Hookmark, picking up where you left off is frictionless. Here are five quick ways to resume your work, each leveraging Hookmark’s powerful bookmarking

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Protect Your Long Web Form Inputs with Hookmark

Never Lose Your Long Web Form Input Again — Hookmark to the Rescue Have you ever poured 20 minutes into a thoughtful message on a webpage — a customer support form, a job application, or a forum post — only to lose it all because your browser crashed, your session timed out, or you accidentally

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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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