Tips and Tricks
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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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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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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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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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
Why flag emails when you can copy links to them instead? Read More »
Hookmark Pro users can customize how Hookmark interacts with any given app by editing the appropriate integration script in the Scripts tab, which is in Hookmark’s settings (“preferences”). Integration scripts can be written in AppleScript or JavaScript. Our script editor is very rudimentary. These scripts can be written and edited in Apple’s script editor. However,
