The very essence of Hookmark is interoperability, its purpose being to help you access, connect and bookmark information from all your favorite apps and online sites. Hookmark’s key feature is Copy Link. It allows a uniform user gesture to create links to the information in your favorite apps. Hookmark Pro supports AppleScript / JavaScript automation. That […]
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There are several ways to backup Hookmark data and restore it on the same or different Macs. Some rules: Make sure that the Mac to which you are restoring Hookmark’s Application Support folder , i.e., ~/Library/Application Support/com.cogsciapps.hook uses a version of Hookmark that is the same or newer than the source Mac. Before backing up
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This page explains how Hookmark communicates (“integrates”) with other apps to link their items to each other and to other apps’ items. It also explains how you can customize these integrations. There is a list of examples below. How Hookmark works with your favorite apps When Hookmark is invoked in the context of an app
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There are two ways to sync Hookmark’s data: Through iCloud. By using a folder of your choice. Benefits of Hookmark link syncing CogSci Apps felt no need to reinvent the wheel. Instead of building a completely new syncing service, it lets you choose your own sync service and storage medium. After you configure and enable
This document first provides the background to Hookmark’s script editor. Then it describes the script editor itself. The Scripts tab contains scripts that control how Hookmark interacts with your favorite apps, linking them together. The Scripts tab is a Hookmark Pro feature. It is not shown in Standard mode of Hookmark. Many apps work with
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
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
