Luc P. Beaudoin

A Story Was a Deal Discussing Will's Storr's notion of a story as a deal in my new book, Discontinuities: Love, Art, Mind

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

YouTube video by Hookmark Hookmark for lawyers: 2026-01-15 Office hours

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

youtu.be/QggsUm3yxoA

We aim to meet all your linking needs We design Hookmark to meet all your linking needs, meaning we aim to cover all major and edge cases. Hookmark can be thought of as a “Swiss Army knife” for linking. Some random examples Copy As Univ...

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` Hookmark 7.0 (6510; Integration v. 404) Beta 2 is now available. In addition to the Clean My Links featured in the first beta, this new beta includes a new Hook to New PDF command. It is similar to Ho...

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 - TidBITS Matt Neuburg’s free TidBITS News app gets a notable update with a complete rewrite for iOS 26 and Swift 6.2, plus Dark mode support. Even better, he has open-sourced the code on GitHub for curious developers.

TidBITS News App Updated and Open Sourced

For a second there I thought you were saying Apple's News App had been open sourced. What a revolution that would be. Apple's insistence on enshittification precludes that.

Demystifying `hook://file/` links We’ve published a web page that explains Hookmark’s file links ( hook://file/ links). Why this matters Robust file linking isn’t just a technical nicety—it fundamentally changes how you work. When li...

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.

Why and how can music really move us? Here follows a draft of a chapter from Discontinuities: Love, Art, Mind which is about 85% complete and already available for sale on Leanpub, a Canadian ebook store.

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-...

Cory Doctorow calls it *enshittification*. And it does not surprise me at all that Siri still does not understand this word, meaning it can’t do speech to text on it. So fitting!

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...)

Fortunately, #macOS and #Mac apps had the underlying #automation support we needed to build Hookmark. It still amazes me to this day.

Home Search less and focus more. Hookmark is the standalone contextual bookmarking app. It complements your launcher by also being the contextual launcher. Hookmark enables you to create and link robust...

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?

I'd like AppleScript to add bookmarks to Anybox | Feature Requests | Anybox I'd like AppleScript to add bookmarks to Anybox. input variables would be URL and name. This would allow Hookmark to add bookmarks to Anybox.

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...).

Partner-of-the-Month Program BBEdit is our Partner for the Month of August! BBEdit is a powerful text and code editor specifically for macOS, developed by Bare Bones Software. Since its release in 1992, it has become a favorite ...

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...

thank you :)

Cognitive Productivity A pro-active response to "information overload". Describes the challenges we face, pertinent cognitive science, and productive ways of learning with technology

#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: Partner for the Month of September We are delighted to highlight Unclutter as our Partner for the Month of September, 2025. Unclutter is a Mac app that provides a tidy, always-available space on your desktop for organizing files, tak...

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

Scripts Tab This document first provides the background to Hookmark's script editor. Then it describes the script editor itself. The Scripts tab contains scripts that control how Hookmark interacts with your fav...

Our Hookmark app has a similar feature but not in the Security space. It is for silently updating the integrations with other apps: hookproductivity.com/help/prefere...

Quick Note on macOS: Still Limited in 2025 When I exchanged emails with Steve Jobs in 2010, I sent him the white paper he requested, recommending—among other things—that Apple introduce system-wide linking in what was then called OS X (now mac...

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...

I think she is on bsky. Does anyone have her handle?

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

🔗 Omni-links The Concept You Didn’t Know You Needed

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