A Story Was a Deal - Luc Beaudoin luccogzest.substack.com/p/a-story-wa... —relating Will Storr's A Story Is a Deal to the problem of learning from stories @willstorr.bsky.social

We recently hosted an office hours session on using Hookmark for lawyers and writers. Here is the recording of the session: youtu.be/QggsUm3yxoA

Hookmark aims to meet all your linking needs. It is like a Swiss Army knife for linking discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/we-aim-to-...

Hookmark 7.0 BETA 2 is now available: `Hook to New PDF` and Clean My Links . No browser plugin or extension required! discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hookmark-7...

Do you consider reading to be "deep work" ( Cal Newport's concept)? Do you log the amount of deep work you do every day?

TidBITS News App Updated and Open Sourced

Hookmark's file links are one of the most important features of Hookmark. They are far better than Finder aliases, symbolic links, and .webloc files. We have Demystified how they work (discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/demystifyi...). Join the forum to discuss it there, or ask here.

Here’s is a draft of the chapter "Why and how can music really move us?" extracted from my Discontinuities: Love, Art, Mind book : luccogzest.substack.com/p/why-and-ho...

A Birthday Gift: Curated Listening on Emotions for Psychotherapists and Others substack.com/home/post/p-...

Sugar cravings are the manifestation of selfish genes. Knowing that can help you lose weight.

You wanted to know more about `hook://file/` links, so we spilled the beans on them: [About Hookmark’s file links (with hook://file/ URLs) – Hookmark](hookproductivity.com/help/more/ab...)

When we were just starting on Hookmark hookproductivity.com in 2015 (which was then known by its code name, "myMeta", which we still use internally, it was not at all clear that we would be able to implement what we had in mind.

what were #Apple thinking when they named their shortcuts automation feature "#Shortcuts", clashing with keyboard shortcuts! Why not simply call them macros? Or something else?

If you'd like #Hookmark to be better integrated with #Anybox, upvote [I'd like #AppleScript to add bookmarks to Anybox | Voters | Anybox](anybox.canny.io/feature-requ...).

The best tools don’t just organize info — they help you see what you’re thinking. Tinderbox lets you map, outline, and connect ideas visually — & the new Tinderbox 11 adds AI that helps you reflect, not just automate. 🌐 hookproductivity.com/af/partner-o... See: hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/10...

#Book deal! Cognitive #Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective by Luc P. Beaudoin - Suggested Price: $16.49, Regular Minimum Price: $14.99, #Coupon #sale #discount Price: $7.50 leanpub.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?...

Hi, @sprofficial.bsky.social is there an email distribution list for the conference?

Unclutter is Hookmark's Partner for the Month of September hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/09... . Check out that blog post for a limited-time 40% off coupon for Unclutterapp unclutterapp.com

In 2010 I told Steve Jobs Apple needed system-wide linking — Quick Note fell short, but Hookmark delivers the vision hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/09...

And in other news, today I turned off "Show invitation messages in Notification Center" because macOS was showing invitations from spam in Notification Center

5 Easy Ways to Resume Working on a Project hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/07...

A promising approach to ease falling asleep: The Cognitive Shuffle: sharpbrains.com/blog/2025/07...

The good thing about aging is that it brings me closer to the next release of iPhone and Apple Watch.

🔗 Omni-links - The missing hypertext concept: substack.com/inbox/post/1...

BSBM+ illustrated ( body scanning, breath, and mantra plus unstructured meditation)

Hookmark 6.10 is here — plus Hookmark Pal, SummerFest deals, and more hookproductivity.com/release-note...

I have updated the specification of BSBM ( body scanning, breath, and mantra meditation) meditation on CogZest website. Added Shikantaza Meditation (as an option in step 4). And I added a diagram.https://cogzest.com/2025/07/bsbm-meditation-a-multi-anchor-practice-for-meta-cognitive-control/

I have updated the mySelfQuantifier [Example Workbook Spreadsheets: mySelfQuantifier – CogZest](cogzest.com/projects/mys...). It contains many new columns include 4 link columns for use with Hookmark.

A new form of meditation designed to improve focus and decrease worries / mental perturbance cogzest.com/2025/07/bsbm...

More sleep tips, from The Guardian this time. Near the top of the article they recommend the cognitive shuffle technique that I developed: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... #sleep #insomnia #cognitiveShuffle

🧠 Bookmark smarter on Mac! A deep dive comparing 10 great Mac bookmarking apps and services—including visual tools, read-later apps, and universal linkers like Hookmark. From Raindrop to Anybox, DEVONthink to GoodLinks, find what fits your brain 🧩 🔗 hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/07...

I'm tired of reading the news, so I canceled my subscription to Apple News. I'll rely on CBC and BBC. And make more use of Feedly news feeds instead, which I described in [_Cognitive Productivity with macOS: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge_](leanpub.com/cognitive-pr...)

😴 Trouble falling or staying asleep? Over on the mySleepButton website, we compiled one of the most extensive, research-informed collections of #SleepTips online 🛌 Explore: 🔗 mysleepbutton.com/support/msb-... #SleepHealth #Insomnia #Wellbeing

How Hookmark Supercharges Deep Work: A Tool for Cal Newport Fans hookproductivity.com/blog/2025/06...

In Psychology Today, an article about the cognitive shuffle for #sleep: "A Creatively Random Idea for Falling Asleep" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Hookmark 6.9 is now available — defaulting to foreground mode discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/hookmark-6...

I’ve been smiling a lot today because I anticipate that the surly, “Mini Trump” Conservative leader is going to get his rear end kicked and we will have a majority Liberal government here in #Canada that will be much better than the JT government, reminiscent of the Jean Chrétien Liberals. Yay!!

@tidbits.com I have used Hookmark to hook this post to your email "#1753: Text fragments enable deep linking, no more TidBITS on X/Twitter and Facebook, Macintosh Magazine Media project". Soon Hookmark will automagically link that to the corresponding web article 😉

@tidbits.com welcome to BlueSky !

One of the numerous ways in which Twitter's rebranding was idiotic is it's terrible for personal information management. Try looking for an X bookmark by name. See all the false positives.

Supercharged Bookmarking: Hookmark + Linkding Integration on BrettTerpstra.com: brettterpstra.com/2025/04/22/s... @ttscoff.bsky.social

SFU's Outlook webservers are unresponsive, so I resorted to Thunderbird.

Last Week: Non-self, Emotions and Music, AI, mySleepButton 2.0 announced, and More cogzest.com/2025/04/non-...

I've decided to include my eulogy for Claude Lamontagne as a chapter in [_Discontinuities: Love, Art, Mind_](leanpub.com/discontinuit...) for he is one of two contributors to the book who passed away during the book's long gestation. Obit: medium.com/@LucCogZest/...

Suppose you are writing an apple note that is related to a file, or vice versa. You can use [hookmark](hookproductivity.com) to easily connect them together. Invoke Hookmark on the note, and see the linked file; and vice versa. If you're a knowledge worker, you won't look back

Laughing is so much fun! Do you know why?

I was wondering why so little email today. Then I realized, it's Good Friday. Still, we are receiving emails at our customer support address for Hookmark hookproductivity.com and mySleepButton mysleepbutton.com

If you're not using [TextSniper - Capture and extract any text from your Mac's screen](textsniper.app) you're not as productive as you could be on your Mac.

I've been trying to get ChatGPT to automatically append "ChatGPT" to the name of our conversations. It says it will do it from now on, but does not. a first world, 2020s problem

"Reprogramming Rest: Dr. Luc P. Beaudoin’s Science of Falling Asleep" www.sfu.ca/education/ne... #sleep #insomnia