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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One of the great joys we have at CogSci Apps is interacting with leading developers who, by making their software’s data linkable via automation and an apt user interface, show that they value what David Sparks calls contextual computing and Seth Godin calls minimizing mode switching. Keep reading to learn about Hook’s integrations with Craft,
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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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As you likely know, in November CogSci Apps released Hook 2.0 – 2.0.3. Hook has become a truly universal automatic, contextual bookmarking app. It has long been known that note-taking is an essential way to extend your memory and understanding. One of the major benefits of Hook is to enable you to create notes (in
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By now you are likely aware that we recently released Hook 2.0. In this post, we round up the improvements, provide a Black Friday discount coupon code, and look to the future Gifting or recommending Hook productivity? 30%… If you’d like to gift Hook licenses to yourself or others, until end of Monday you may
