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I did it!
I can now use click Hook links on any browser page :slight_smile:

The setup is:

  1. Install Linkificator for Firefox or Chrome (Chrome untested at the moment)

  2. In extension options,

Apply Custom Rules for:
Before predefined rules list
enable this —> After predefined rules list

  1. Add " hook://~hook:// " to Protocols and subdomains. I’m not sure if this is really necessary.

  2. Now add a custom rule:

Name: hook
Pattern: hook:(.*)
URL: $&

You’ll now have hook:// links highlighted and clickable on every page.

To finally use WhatsApp as a CRM, you can send your customer your hook link and just ask them to ignore it with a ‘note to self’ or annotate the page with another extension, perhaps?
Then when you want to refer to your customer notes, you just click that hook:// link in your WhatsApp conversation.

Edit:

You can also use this in:

  • your emails
  • forum posts

It’s pretty handy.

update 01-21-2022:
I found that it sometimes breaks the reply box in WhatsApp. It’s probably because it needs to stop after the final character in the hook:// link. Maybe (.*) needs to be edited to exclude a blank whitespace

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