Launching with a Hyper key chord and then dismissing with the Hyper key is nice flow. It also serves as an escape key when pressed and released (as opposed to using it as a modifier in a chord with other keys). Hyper – Karabiner Elements maps my Caps Lock key to Cmd+Ctl+Opt+Shift. I’m a text and information worker, and these are some of my tools. My workflow is very plain text and Markdown heavy. That is a fast as invoking Alfred, typing hm and then the item I am searching for.This lists some of the hotkeys and applications that constitute my core productivity flow on macOS. Only recently I’ve realised that I can search all Hook bookmarks, as Hook contains lots of relevant links from across all work items, which I achieve via Alfred Workflow for Hook - this gets an occasional use when I am looking for something I’ve hooked somewhere. I used to creates hooks via the Hook context window, but I now use the keyboard shortcuts to Copy Link and Hook to Copied Link, as it’s a lot quicker, and using these shortcuts helped me to actually understand and use Hook a lot better. Hook speeds up navigation between items that are related to each particular work item, so I’m using it “as intended” in this sense. My secondary use is to quickly bounce between OmniFocus (from either Projects or Tasks), Obsidian (markdown files used for reference/notes) and JIRA (hooked to a work item’s URL where I can leaves comments for my team). My main use of Hook is to quickly grab URLs to share with other members in my team, or to paste into Obsidian. My work is all in the humanities, so Word docs are essentially the default expectation for my field, whether track changes for my work as an editor, or final submissions to journals and presses, so I gave up fighting against Word years ago. Before Hook, I used the deep links of DevonThink/Scrivener to stay organized, but Hook is useful for broadening that proposition beyond those two apps. Ultimately, I was using the hierarchy of index cards more as a shorthand for outlining than I was for re-organizing sections of prose. Transclusion in Obsidian/markdown offers some similarities. What I did find useful was the “scrivenings” - basically index cards, represented in a folder hierarchy, that could be re-ordered, but in the main window could be presented as continuous text. One real issue for me was footnotes: Scrivener just wasn’t able to insert/number/renumber, and display (which required a side pane, if I recall) in ways that worked for me, and it wasn’t worth the fuss. For my current book project, I’m using Obsidian vaults (themselves indexed into DevonThink) for the middle step, and Hook is proving very helpful at making the DT/Obsidian connections meaningfully visible, so I don’t miss things as I move half-baked prose into Scrivener is crazily complex, which in some ways is useful, and in other ways I found burdensome/unnecessary. I’d organize thoughts and materials with Scrivener in ways that made argumentative/narrative sense for each project. I don’t trust Zotero, either, so when writing I copy and paste citations manually using Alfred workflows (for a while I tried Raycast, but am now back to Alfred again).įor my last few articles, I used Scrivener as sort of a middle step between the “stuff” that got ingested wholesale into DevonThink and the final written product I would compose in Word.

The new Zotero 6 PDF reader isn’t doing it for me (yet), so I use Preview or the DevonThink reader for highlights and annotations, which are preserved across devices (and occasionally PDF Viewer on iOS). I use Zotero, and sync my library of PDFs via Box. I created BTT Touch Bar shortcuts for DevonThink copy page link and copy item link, which helped with the specificity of interconnection I find increasingly important, and have added a “Hook” item to the TouchBar as well, which just invokes the Hook contextual window. More broadly, I’m using BetterTouchTool as a way to nudge myself into remembering that Hook exists. Which is to say, there’s quite a bit of redundancy/duplication in how I’m using Hook. I got in the habit of manually running the AppleScript to tag DevonThink items with the “hook” tag before the menubar indicator arrived, so I’m still doing that. So, I find myself copying deep links to various documents, and then pasting those links into various DevonThink documents, and then also “hooking” them to each other. I think my biggest issue is that I don’t trust Hook.

Back to the broad use questions, I’m still working out a workflow with Hook.

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