Hookmark offers a very handy command called Hook to New which enables users to instantly create, hook, tag and name a new item. If the new item is a file, it can have a template. On the Notes Preferences Tab you can: Choose where new notes are stored by default. Select the specific templates that […]
Instead of binge reading in Apple News, use Hookmark to bookmark the current article. Only return to it later if you need to. You can also use Hookmark’s uniform gesture to copy a link to the current article. Then paste it anywhere. Apple News is a mobile app and news aggregator developed by Apple Inc. Users
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Curio is a very versatile cognitive tool developed by Zengobi Inc. It enables you to aggregate a large variety of information in one place, so that you can load it into your ‘consciousness’ (or working memory). This blog post shows you how Curio and Hook can be used together to research and create productively. Overview
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When you call Copy Link on a linkable item in a given app, Hookmark returns a link consisting of the item’s name and an address (URL) to access that item. Hookmark will use the custom scheme for the app, shown in its Scripts preferences pane, or the default script (also shown in that pane). This
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With the “Hook to New Note” menu, you can simultaneously create, link, name and store a new file or object. Examples of objects are: tasks in OmniFocus or CulturedCode Things, and documents in Drafts or Bear. The Preferences > Notes tab is where you configure the behavior of the Hook to New menus. We refer
Hookmark provides the world’s easiest, most flexible, general, elegant and only way to create notes about anything that are linked to just about anything (in the app of your choice)! Before Hookmark, people had practically given up on taking notes about their sources (web pages, PDFs, emails, spreadsheets, videos etc.). Why? Because without Hookmark, it’s
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
NotePlan NotePlan brings Markdown and other hypertext functions to your calendar and planning notes. What’s more, the latest NotePlan update, released last week, contains an AppleScript application programming interface (API) that enables users to automatically link its notes! As described below, when you invoke Hook in NotePlan, Hook uses this API. This means you can
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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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EagleFiler is an excellent personal information manager that enables you to import and collect notes, e-mails, and web pages on your Mac, and search them instantly. EagleFiler is developed by C-Command Software, a company led by Michael Tsai. We recently updated Hook integration scripts to work even better with EagleFiler. This document showcases using Hook
