I still miss the workflow part and thought I'd look into today's alternatives. Please feel free to add your uses here, and/or ask questions about them.I'm installing my new MacBook and came to think of Quicksilver - a workhorse some 15 years ago, sent away once Spotlight entered into my life. There I used OmniOutliner documents as examples. The use of templates folder is also described in Cognitive Productivity with macOS: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge. Those are all components of cognitive productivity. The goals are (a) make use of helpful related information, to maintain/improve the quality of your writing (and more generally: creating) (b) be able to access it quickly (for the efficiency side) (c) to stay in the zone. Anything that can help you quickly access related information is potentially useful for keeping you in the zone. Of course, you can name this folder whatever you want, and also include aliases and. hooks files can point to web pages, files and anything that has a URL. A “hooks” folder has a more general intent, because. I’m sure that many people already use the type of system I described, and that their template folder includes an “aliases” folder. Here I note: it useful for such folders to contain a “hooks” folder. Recently requested that Hook’s template system be extended to enable users to store folders in their Hook template folders. I’ve been using such folders for most of my writing for years. I write a lot of papers, blog posts, functional specs and chapters. It shows how useful it is to create new documents based on a template folder. I recently wrote a blog post containing a screencast on using Hook with TaskPaper: How to Turn a TaskPaper File into a Project Information Hub – Hook. For writers and other creatives: Include a “hooks” folder in your documentation template folders Having said that, Hook 2.0, around the corner, provides a search function, which further extends the scope of Hook beyond contextual information-retrieval. hook file, you’ll be able to reach the target via them. As long as the search tool (spotlight, LaunchBar, Alfred, HoudahSpot, etc.) can find your. E.g., if LaunchBar or Spotlight are not indexing your OmniFocus projects/tasks, CulturedCode Things tasks, or Drafts docs, you can create select. hook files.Īlso, it allows you to get quick ‘random’ (non-contextual) access to content that is not indexed by Spotlight or launchers. I.e., in fact, this allows you to get some of the benefits of launchers via Spotlight: define the abbreviations as. Name the file according to how you want to find it in LaunchBar, Alfred or Spotlight. hook files are created / stored is indexed by LaunchBar or Alfred. They are also very handy (quicker, more versatile) alternative to manually defining LaunchBar and/or Alfred abbreviations. hook files are one way to extend the reach of Hook beyond this context. I.e., it shows you what is hooked to the focal item. The Hook window is largely for contextual information access. include them in disk images you create, zip files, DEVONthink folders, Evernote folders, etc.īeyond context: make better use of search tools ( Spotlight, HoudahSpot, LaunchBar, Alfred etc.).Also it allows you to see at a glance, without invoking Hook, what’s linked to this folder. This makes the links unidirectional whereas hooks are bidirectional. store them in a “links” folder of a project to keep cross arbitrary references.put them in cloud shares (Dropbox, etc.), version control system (Git, SVN, etc.) to point anywhere (in the same shares /VCS repositories, or anywhere else you want), so that your colleagues can use them for navigation purposes.We’ve had a few questions recently about the uses of.
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