The Gear ⚙️ menu is available from the Hookmark context window. To access it, click on the Gear button or type ⌃G. Whereas the Action menu is selection-sensitive, the Gear ⚙️ button menu contains global commands that don’t depend on the selection.
The Gear ⚙️ button menu can also be accessed from the menu bar icon and the Bookmarks window.
Main part of the Gear ⚙️ button menu
The main part of the Gear ⚙️ button menu contains:
- Find ⌘F. Searches within the context window (hooked, indirectly hooked and pinned links).
- Search All Bookmarks ⌥⌘F: this invokes the Bookmark window and searches within it.
- Open Bookmarks Window: opens the Bookmark window
- Help menu: includes a link to the keyboard shortcuts.
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Quick Overview
Focus on Link in Clipboarddescribed below- View menu.
- Advanced.
- About Hookmark ⌘’.
- Quit Hookmark ⌘Q
Focus on Link in Clipboard
This very handy command sets the title bar to whatever URL is in the clipboard, so you can reveal it in Finder (if it’s a file), see what it’s hooked to, get a multi-format version of it into the clipboard, etc. See Focus on Link in Clipboard for more information.
View menu in Gear ⚙️ button menu
This menu contains:
- Show/Hide Quick Look ⌘Y: Shows the Quick Look (gives you a preview of the selection).
- Show/Hide Indirectly Hooked
- Expand/collapse Indirectly Hooked section.
- Show/Hide Related
- Expand/Collapse Related
Open Action ☰ button menu ⌃M (The main interaction point).
Open Gear ⚙️ button menu ⌃G (this menu)
Show Hookmark menu bar window
Advanced Gear ⚙️ button menu
The advanced section of the Gear ⚙️ button menu contains the following commands.
The first three items deal with automation:
- Shortcuts… leads to our Shortcuts page, from where you can download Shortcuts to install.
- [AppleScripts…] leads to our AppleScripts page, from where you can download AppleScripts to install.
- Launcher extensions… leads to our Launcher page, from where you can download launcher extensions to install (for Alfred and LaunchBar).
Check for App Updates and Update Scripts...This checks for updates to the Hookmark app and it updates Hookmark’s integration scripts if there are updates available. This can also be configured to be done automatically.
- Copy a New Unique ID (⌘U) (Pro features).
- Copy a Search Link from Clipboard (⇧⌘S)
Copy a Search Link from Clipboard and Copy a New Unique ID (Pro features)
Suppose you want to refer to many files that contain some text, or that match some other Spotlight criteria. For example, you might want to refer to all files that contain “Foo bar baz”. For this purpose, you can use the Copy a Search Link from Clipboard command. Just select the text you want to search and press ⇧⌘S. You’ll get this search link: hook://search/?q=Foo%20bar%20baz, which you can paste anywhere. You can try it now.
See this help page for more information.
5.3. Export and Import of link data (Advanced feature)
Hookmark’s Advance Gear menu contains Export and Import menu items. These items are provided as one of several alternative means of backing up and restoring Hookmark links. For more information see this web page. See also instructions on migrating Hookmark between Macs.
In the unlikely event that Hookmark data become corrupted, you can import previously exported links. This process may detect and remove inconsistent data. You can also use the export/import buttons to compact the Hookmark link database. When you export Hookmark links, Hookmark does not include links to files that are not currently mounted / reachable. This effectively purges links to files that have been deleted or on media that you no longer use. However, this leads to the following caution.