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Hook turns 3!

On July 10, 2019 Hook 1.0 emerged from public beta and officially launched. Hook has remained true to our original vision, as quoted in the original press release on PRMac: β€œDeep work requires quickly accessing documents from your Mac. Unfortunately, filing and searching are distracting, slow and effortful,” shares Luc Beaudoin, a cognitive scientist and …

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Much Ado About Hook: 2.0+; Smile Black Friday to Cyber Monday ; Apple Notes & Obsidian; Hook Liaisons; Surveys, MPU on Cognitive Productivity

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 …

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Accessibility and Automation Permissions

In order for Hookmark to communicate with any app, you need to grant it “accessibility permissions”. You need to give Hookmark permission to interact with that particular app. macOS restricts how applications can access and interact with the system and other applications. To create links between applications, Hookmark needs your authorization to communicate with them. …

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Take Deep Notes about Apple Books Using Outliners, Mind Mapping Apps, Task Managers, Spreadsheets, IDEs, and More

In reading about brilliant minds, like Charles Darwin, Richard Feynman, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, you have probably learned that they tend to read, a lot. And they read deeply. This was recently illustrated in the Netflix documentary, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates. To read deeply, we need to take notes. The …

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Use Hook with Time Tracking, Billing and Accounting Software

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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