Basic question: display list of Links instead of single link

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congratulations for a fantastic app

There is something basic that I don’t understand.

When I read the online documentation and hook is called up in an app, a browser, an email etc, I see displayed the link to the current item and also past links which you can browse/navigate (hence the name Link Browser).

But when I trigger Hook in a browser or app, I only see one Link: the link to the item that is currently open. I don’t see the hook links to all the items that I created today in evernote, bear, mail, browsers, etc

thanks in advance for your time and help

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The whole point of Hook is it only shows you the links to the current context (whatever you have at the top of the window). Hook isn’t a launcher to get to any context from any other (though you can use .hook files with Pro to use a launcher to open any context).

So, if you Hook webpage A to email B:

  • on webpage A you will have email B listed
  • on email B you will have webpage A listed

but on webpage C you will have neither, unless you link it to something. You could link webpage C to webpage A and email B if you wanted; but Hook isn’t designed to make one big list of links (though I think they’re working on things like a Recents list).

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thank you very much for your reply.

If I understand correctly, the point of have a list of links displayed when you call up hook is back-linking which is very interesting, and has nothing to do with what we usually see, ie a Recents List

It’s a different way of thinking. I am very grateful for your help

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sorry to bother you.

I thought that I understood but obviously not.

I hooked (⇧⌘-C → ⌘-C)this webpage and pasted the link in an email to myself, a Scrivener document, a Bear Note and an Evernote Note.

When I go back to the web page, and trigger Hook (⇧⌘-C) , all I can see is the link to this page.

I was expecting to see all links which lead to this page, as per your explanation.

thanks in advance for your time and help

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Perhaps these videos will help explain it?

It sounds like you copied the Hook links but didn’t connect them to anything.

(Eg. Invoke Hook on this page, CMD-C, invoke Hook on any Evernote doc, CMD-V, invoke Hook on any email, CMD-V — then invoke Hook on this page again and you should see the Evernote and Email listed)

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fantastic ! now I understand !! I tested it and it works.
You are very patient, thank you.

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