Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

Tips and Apps for Mastering Knowledge: Back to School for Some Students and Professors

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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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New Screencast on Linking Items Together by Dragging and Dropping them onto Hook’s Menu Bar Icon

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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,

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Keyboard Maestro Macros and Hook app

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Several Hook users have written forum & blog posts about using Hook with Keyboard Maestro.

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How to Turn a TaskPaper File into a Project Information Hub

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TaskPaper, the plain-text ToDo app for Mac, reminds of me of Hook. It’s extremely nimble, easy to use, and yet amazingly powerful. Because its format is conventional plain text, you can also easily work with TaskPaper files using your favorite editors. But I love PlainText; so > 99% of the time, I use that app

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Browse All Your Hook Bookmarks with Alfred — It’s a Great Launcher App for Your Mac

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Alfred by Running with Crayons is a fantastic launcher for macOS. Using the Alfred workflow created by CogSci Apps, you can retrieve all your Hook bookmarks with Alfred.

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Use Hook with Time Tracking, Billing and Accounting Software

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One of the many benefits of Hook is that it complements your time-tracking and billing systems. It enables you to include links to documents (and other items) that make your time sheets and invoices more meaningful to your clients, bookkeepers, and yourself. As I’ve long maintained on the CogZest blog, time-tracking is important for productivity.

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