Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Connect your Fantastical Calendar Dates to What they are About

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Fantastical is a powerful calendar app developed by by Flexibits. Important meetings are typically related to your projects, contacts and other information on your Mac. So you need to be able to quickly navigate between that information, without searching. Use Hook to connect your calendar entries to: Project information (e.g., in Merlin Project, OmniFocus or […]

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New Command: Focus on Copied Link ⌃⇧⌘L

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A cool link manipulating feature you probably didn’t know about : Focus on Copied Link ⌃⇧⌘L. We introduced it earlier this year but had not documented it. In a nutshell: if you’ve copied a link from any app (including Hook), you can focus Hook onto it. Then you can use all of Hook’s features on

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Discover Hook with this New ScreenCastsOnline Video

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ScreenCastsOnline is a large and growing library of high quality video tutorials that help customers learn about great software, including Hook productivity, to do more and better work with their Apple devices! ScreenCastsOnline first covered Hook when Hook was still in private beta May 2019. Since then Hook has changed a lot. This week, ScreenCastsOnline

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Use Case: Curating and Aggregating Links to WWDC 2021 Apple Developer Videos

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Here I’d simply like to share a use case of Hook. I was planning a series of WWDC 2021 videos I’d like to watch and share with my team here at CogSci Apps Corp. So I accessed the main videos page: WWDC 2021 – Videos – Apple Developer. I used Hook to Copy Link of

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How to Create Systematically and Stay “in the Zone” using OmniFocus, OmniOutliner, OmniGraffle and Hook

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Do you create many documents, presentations, videos or other content? If so, you probably use templates, or at least should use templates. Templates enable you to work more efficiently, systematically, and reflectively. Hook 3.0 introduces yet another “world first” feature. This one enables you to instantly create documents based on your templates — in any

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Using Hook & OmniOutliner as a Contact Management System: Link a Contact to Meeting Minutes & More

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Hook has always included a template mechanism and OmniOutliner templates allowing you to Hook to New > OmniOutliner documents. Hook 3.0, released Monday takes the Hook to New feature to an entirely new level. Hook 3.0 supports Hook to New > folders. This allows you to replicate, hook, mesh link, rename and tag an entire

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