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"Hook" app links related documents together
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Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 9, 2019 at 10:19 AM
There’s a new app in beta, “Hook” from Luc Beaudoin, that can be useful in creating a set of links between related files, emails, documents, etc. For example, working on a PDF, you want to relate that file to another file with notes, plus related PDFs, email messages, a Curio file, etc. Hook is intended to store links to that set of related documents and items so they can be quickly recalled.
The videos on the site offer better explanation of the app’s intent and use. I found the interface a bit clunky and unintuitive, but it’s a work in progress. Free for now—which means “not free” in the future. Mac only.
Posted by Beck
Feb 9, 2019 at 06:03 PM
Whoa… this looks awesome.
Posted by Paul Korm
Feb 14, 2019 at 10:37 AM
Hook announced its post-beta pricing. $19.99 for an “essentials” tier, and $29.99 for “pro”. Not explicit on this page is that these appear to be Tinderbox- or Agenda-style pricing models: you get the app’s updates for a year for the base price, and need to pay again for the next 12 months, or remain with no updates after the first year. This is a hidden subscription model, in actuality.
Since none of the interesting features exist in the “essentials” level, and there’s no published roadmap for “pro” much beyond what’s in the beta already, I’d have to say the prospect of $29.99/year for an app that turns out to automate what someone can do pretty much on their own already, is not compelling.
https://hookproductivity.com/buy
Posted by Luhmann
Feb 14, 2019 at 02:35 PM
Somewhat related, here are some decent free tools to get markdown links from webpages on Chrome and iOS:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/create-link/gcmghdmnkfdbncmnmlkkglmnnhagajbm
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/coppie-as-markdown/id1297207273?mt=8
Dynalist and Todoist can also save markdown links with their share extensions.
Posted by Beck
Feb 14, 2019 at 04:18 PM
Paul Korm wrote:
>beta already, I’d have to say the prospect of $29.99/year for an app
>that turns out to automate what someone can do pretty much on their own
>already, is not compelling.
Paul, I didn’t realize we can do this on our own already. Can you point me to methods that either allow you to connect files to each other and access them via keyboard shortcut, or give you a tidy link to any file?
Thanks!
Beck