Elsewhere, we explained how to link two items by dropping one item at a time on the menu bar icon. You can also: Drop one item followed by multiple items. This links the first single item to the second set of items. See the next section. Drag and drop several items onto the menu bar […]
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You can easily hook (link) items together by dragging and dropping them onto Hookmark’s menu bar icon. Here we describe how to hook (link) items together by dropping one item at a time on the menu bar icon. Drag a file onto the Hookmark menu bar icon. The drop zone will split into two, revealing
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In the title bar’s Action ☰ button menu, you will find the Make Hookmark File command. Hookmark files are plain text files with the “.hookmark” filename extension. They can contain any valid address (“URI”), whether or not the address is a hook:// URL. For instance, you can insert a link to a website (such as
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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
The Copy Link command copies a link to the current item (file, document, web page, whatever). “Current” means the item that was selected or open in the frontmost active window when you invoked Hookmark. The Copy Link command is available from the Action menu of the Hookmark window. Or you can control-click on the title
Hookmark operates on files and other types of items in many of your favorite apps. It works on files in the Finder, files that are open (for example, in Pages, Word or Preview), web pages in a browser, emails in mail apps, tasks in OmniFocus and Things, and other types of content. Using Hookmark is
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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Alfred by Running with Crayons is a fantastic launcher for macOS. Using the Alfred workflow created by CogSci Apps, you can retrieve all your Hook bookmarks with Alfred.
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