Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

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

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

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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Hook Enables You to Connect Todoist to your Work and Life

Todoist is a task manager that’s available on the Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, and elsewhere. Many people appreciate the app’s simplicity and true cross-platform availability. Its functionality lies somewhere between a simple task manager and a full-fledged project manager, with features including shared projects, comments, notifications, task assignments, subtasks, tags, the ability to attach

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Hook Solves Your BIGGEST PDF PAIN-Point

A professional’s most important information is often in PDF format: legal documents, peer-reviewed journal articles, memos, and so much more. However, before Hook, there were four huge problems with PDFs that share one thing in common. they tended to get scattered on your Mac, which meant you needed to file them in order to find

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Can Professors Learn to Read Better?

Whether you are a researcher, writer or student, odds are you’re hardly as good a reader as you can be. The reason is that information technology has made it harder to read for mastery. I demonstrated these problems (and solutions to them) in my two Cognitive Productivity books. Here, I will focus on two specific

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Hook Can Help You Navigate Your Social Media Posts

Social media use cases for Hook abound. Here’s one Smile Software published a blog post written by CogSci Apps co-founder, Luc P. Beaudoin: Creating Deep Links With Hook: A Worked Example – PDFpen Luc shared that link in a brief LinkedIn blog post. Those posts refer to a web page containing “extras” (a .zip file):

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