We’re excited that Default Folder X has been chosen as Hookmark’s Partner of the Month for August! If you haven’t tried Hookmark yet, it’s a great tool for speeding up your workflow when you’re juggling information across multiple apps. Instead of hunting down emails, contacts, web pages, or notes over and over, Hookmark lets you link them all together and quickly jump between them.

If you’re a Default Folder X user, we know you value efficiency and easy navigation. Hookmark delivers that in spades when you’re integrating information from different applications — it really has no equivalent on the Mac.

What does Hookmark Do?

Hookmark works by creating special links — kind of like URLs, but instead of just opening web pages, these links open things on your Mac like calendar events, tasks, files, contacts, PDFs, notes, and even individual emails. The Hookmark website lists the many apps that support these links.

You then “hook” links together. For example, if you’re working on a report, you can hook your draft, client emails, research articles, and meeting notes, and instantly switch between them without any searching. It’s a cool way to think about how the pieces of your work connect. You simply pop up Hookmark’s contextual window or bookmark window and click on a link – it’s that easy to navigate between hooked information.

Hookmark + Default Folder X : Faster and Easier

If you use Default Folder X, you know how much it helps you quickly get to the right file or folder. With Hookmark, you can hook related websites, files and other information together to access them even faster! Open a recent file from Default Folder X’s menu, then use Hookmark to instantly navigate to any information you’ve hooked to that file – contacts, notes, to-do lists, websites – they’re all just a click away.

There’s also one more trick. Default Folder X’s integration into Save dialogs lets it create a Hookmark link the moment you save a file. That means the link is automatically copied to your clipboard and ready to use in Hookmark, saving you yet another step. For setup details, check out this blog post.

Visit https://hookproductivity.com for details and to try Hookmark.

If you use CogSci Apps’ excellent Hookmark app to link together information on your Mac, you’re undoubtedly already enjoying how easily you can jump between files, notes, web pages, contacts, and other data you’ve hooked together. But did you know you can speed things up even more using Default Folder X?

Default Folder X enhances Save dialogs in a way that lets it process any file right after you save it. With this, you can automatically add a bookmark in Hookmark whenever you save a file in a specific app — making it instantly ready to hook to other related information.

Setting this up is simple: just add an AppleScript to Default Folder X’s Save Actions. To start, open a Save dialog in any app. Click the “Actions” tab below the Save dialog, then select “Send the saved file to the AppleScript” and click “Open Scripts folder in Finder.”

When the Scripts folder opens in Finder, download this file:

         https://www.stclairsoft.com/download/BookmarkwithHookmark.zip

Unzip it and drag the “Bookmark with Hookmark.scpt” script into the Scripts folder. It will then appear in the Actions menu.

Now, when you save a file and want it automatically bookmarked in Hookmark, simply enable the “Bookmark with Hookmark” action below the Save dialog. Usually, you’ll want to check “Remember these actions next time” so Default Folder X always adds a bookmark for that app — saving you from having to enable it every time you save.