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Deep PDF Links Take You Right Where You Need to Focus

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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Using Hookmark with the Free Skim PDF Reader app: Deep Links!

Hookmark enables you to link PDF files to and from anything that is also linkable. Hookmark supports many PDF readers, including the excellent, free PDF reader Skim, available on Sourceforge.io. Hookmark treats PDFs similarly to other files, except you can create “deep links” that point to specific locations in a document. Click on the link

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What’s a Link-Friendly App and Why Does Being Linkable Matter?

Here at CogSci Apps, we believe that all apps should make it extremely easy for users to get (copy) and open hyperlinks to the data they present or manage. In other words, all apps that deal with resources should be truly linkable. A hyperlink specifies the name and address [URL] of a resource. We believe

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MPU Covers Hook, Many Great Linkable Apps and More

David Sparks (@MacSparky) and Stephen Hackett (@ismh) produced another entertaining and insightful episode of Mac Power Users (#549). They interviewed master Mac coder, Brett Terpstra (@ttscoff). In sum: three very productive people talked about software that supports their productivity and hobbies — including Hook! Episode 549: @ttscoff returns to the show to talk about the Touch

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Curio a Cognitive Tool for Researchers and Creatives

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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Principles That Determine the URL Scheme Returned by `Copy Link` for a Given App

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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