Thanks for bringing this up, @andreamocko. We (@ CogSci Apps) should/will write a help page on this topic.
Preamble. Hook has no special purpose UI to change the location of its main (~/Documents/) folder per se. Our rationale was that we wanted to make it super easy for users to address what we expected to be the most common case, which is to change the default location of the Notes folder. Many users (we assumed) would want the default location to be in personal information manager like EagleFiler, or somewhere indexed by DEVONthink. And we didn’t want to confuse matters by having two different folder location widgets.
Fortunately, the effect I think you are asking for can be achieved with symbolic links.
After taking certain precautions, described below, you can address your problem by moving the ~/Documents/Hook folder and then creating a symbolic link in its old home. I know you know how to do this, but for the benefit of those who do not: suppose you move the Hook folder to your home folder, then from the command line you would do this:
% cd ~/Documents
% ln -s ~/Hook Hook
which creates a symbolic link named “Hook” in your ~/Documents folder that points to Hook in your home (~) folder.
Precautions
Before moving the ~/Documents/Hook folder,
- quit any applications that may have some of its files open. This is because the double operation of moving and creating a symbolic link can confuse some apps (nothing to do with Hook).
- quit Hook.
Summary of steps
So the order is:
- Quit Hook and various apps.
- Move the Hook folder.
- Setup the symbolic links from the Documents/Hook folder to its new location.
- Relaunch Hook and all your apps
- Enjoy
Possible future alt
Some users won’t even want a symbolic link in their ~/Documents folder. So we might provide a UI or terminal command to choose a different Hook folder location.