Tips and Tricks
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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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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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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2021-05-08 Update: Hook now also provides deep linking for Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. See linkable apps. However, Hook aside, we recommend PDFpenPro and Skim for reading in depth (“delving”). PDFs are used to capture some of the most important, and best, information we all work with. If you’re a knowledge worker, an attorney, an
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Some students and professors are heading “back to school”. With Covid, learning with technology has become more important than ever. So today, Smile published an original article of mine: Technology-Enhanced Learning: 6 Ways to Master New Info. Back-to-School with tech for Students by @LucCogZest. Triply relevant to Professors 😉 (since profs are students, researchers &
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The easiest way to initially learn how to use Hook is probably by using its menu bar icon. To link items together, just drag and drop them onto Hook’s menu bar icon: either in one fell swoop (for mesh linking), or one item followed by one or more items. Works with files, web browser addresses,
