Hookmark 6.12 (6436; Integration v. 398) has been released with new ways to add and automate bookmarks across your knowledge tools.
You can now add new bookmarks to Hookmark via a dedicated dialog box, and optionally configure Hookmark to automatically create a corresponding bookmark in DEVONthink for every new web bookmark you add to Hookmark.
Hookmark is now compatible with more apps, and we’ve fine-tuned some existing integrations. You can find the full list of enhancements and bug fixes in the release notes.
https://hookproductivity.com
To better understand the mental processes involved in falling asleep, Luc P. Beaudoin proposes the Somnolent Information-Processing (SIP) theory, which will soon appear in The Cambridge Handbook of Sleep Theories and Models.* Simply put, this theory helps explain how our minds decide it’s safe and appropriate to fall asleep, and why certain mental habits can get in the way.
We live and work in a world of fragments: notes in one app, PDFs in another, emails, web pages, tasks, meeting agendas—each siloed in its own container. What ties them together? Links.
But not all links are created equal.
We have URLs, app links, deep links—but these are partial, inconsistent, and often fragile. What’s missing is a unifying concept—something that captures what we want links to do across our digital workflows.
That’s where the concept of omni-links comes in. ...
macOS supports automation and deep linking — but Apple’s own apps (like Messages, Podcasts, and Notes) still lack basic “Copy Link” features and public APIs. This article critiques Apple’s stance, explains what’s possible with tools like Hookmark, and calls for broader support of the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking.
The background for Hook's is cognitive science / education tech R&D I and my co-founders had been doing 2001 (2003, 2006)- 2009 at SFU called gStudy and nStudy (www.sfu.ca/~lpb/tr/2009-Luc_P_Beaudoin-Phil_Winne-nStudy.pdf). We had been designing and implementing personal learning environment for Phil Winne's Learning Kit project at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The core concept I contributed from the beginning of my design was "linking anything to anything" within the system and web (cf. Ted Nelson and Douglas Englebart). We were implementing / incorporating tools in the PLE (note-taking, mind maps, web browser, flashcards, etc.) My Tundra-related insight that led to Hook was that instead of re-inventing the wheel (note-taking, mind maps, etc.) in a big PLE, I could allow users to use best of breed apps and simply connect all their resources with a nimble piece of software. So with Hook, users can use whatever software they like (e.g., for Note taking Bear, Obsidian, BBEdit, Apple Notes, whatever). Hook would serve the links, connect the items, and allow users to navigate in a popup window they invoke within the context of their favorite apps.
Last year I published a chapter , [Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/346734020_A_Manifes...), in the Future of Text book, to support the ideal of all apps being linkable. I guess I should post separately about that as we are looking for co-signatories (many are joining) for a variant of that document. People can email support@cogsciapps.com if they are interested in it.
We've found many Mac developers were happy to add a linking API to their apps. E.g., in the latest release I mentioned, Flexibits added an API for its Fantastical; Merlin Wizards is adding one for its Merlin Project (in Sept), and Ngoc Luu added one for GoodLinks.
If an app does not have an API, Hook tries to use UI scripting to get the link. That's how it works with Slack and Notion. We've requested that Notion and Slack provide a client side API to make their apps "truly linkable" more robust. If anyone wants that, they might want to do the same.
(Hook innovated in so many ways ( https://hookproductivity.com/help/general/features ) that I had expected it would be discussed on Hacker News out of the gate in 2019; but I didn't want to be the one to mention it of course. My OP was my first one here. )
Something like that. For the remote case, currently the leaf node of filename on remote system needs to match initially. For `hook://file/` URLs outside the user's database (i.e., apart from the hooks) Hook defaults to revealing file in Finder rather than opening. That can be changed in General prefs (https://hookproductivity.com/help/preferences/general/ ) If there are multiple matches, they are shown. We tweak the algorithm from time to time.
You can now add new bookmarks to Hookmark via a dedicated dialog box, and optionally configure Hookmark to automatically create a corresponding bookmark in DEVONthink for every new web bookmark you add to Hookmark.
Hookmark is now compatible with more apps, and we’ve fine-tuned some existing integrations. You can find the full list of enhancements and bug fixes in the release notes. https://hookproductivity.com