Thank you very much for your answer! I do get you cannot say a lot more but allow me to say I’m very excited too and can’t wait to see what the version will bring. Thank you for making such a great app!
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Checking in on the state of adding iOS support to Hook. All the added features are exciting, but until an easily implemented iOS workflow is a part of it, Hook is not as useful.
thanks for asking, @rwread. We plan to provide an update about the iOS product this summer.
Please feel free to add your wishes/wish list for Hook for iOS here or as a PIM if you prefer.
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Count me in someone who would love an IOS version. As the iPad Pros and IOS become more functional, I find that I’m using the iPad more and more, and the Mac correspondingly less. I find that it is easy now to reject using any IOS apps that are not cross-platform. It is ironic that I discovered the wonderful Hook just as I find I’m moving away from the Mac.
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Brand new to Hook, and I just discovered that what I thought would be macOS-only links are working in iOS. Here’s what I did: on my Mac, I linked some notes in my Notes app to existing notes in Evernote. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that they work not only on my Mac, but also on my iPhone. Not sure why they do, so I wanted to ask you – since there is no iOS version yet - how did this happen?
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when you use the Copy Link command, Hook returns a URL that depends on the type of resource. If the app provides a URL scheme ( like DEVONthink:// ) we almost invariably use that scheme ( EagleFiler is an exception, because we feel customers are better served with a hook://file URL: more robust, etc. and theres’ no iOS version of EagleFiler). So if the app is available on iOS, the URL should work. It’s ultimately up to the app to resolve the URL.
Hook is very configurable, so if users want to use a different URL scheme, if it is feasible, they can do that using Hook’s Scripts Preferences pane.
Yes, today you can already paste links garnered from Hook’s Copy Link command anywhere, including in files and items that are synced with iOS. Some examples:
drafts:// , OmniFocus:// , Things:// etc. Too many to name here.
As noted above, we will publish a version of Hook that works on iOS and iPadOS which will sync all bookmarks created by Hook so that you can have access to them on any platform.
We have not yet pronounced ourselves publicly on hook://file links. Those are links to Finder files that can be synced in a cloud service (iCloud, dropbox, etc.) , or even in a version control system. Hook resolves hook://file URLs. The other issue is email. This requires a mail app that exposes an API to resolve emails by their RFC compliant ID. There are several of them on the Mac. Per https://hookproductivity.com/what-mac-apps-are-compatible-with-hook-app page. Thanks all for your patience re iPhone and iPad.
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Continuing the discussion from iOS Version in the future?:
Hi, is there a roadmap or an expected date to have the IOS version?
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I second this! An iOS version would be super amazing. I’m more often on my cell or ipad
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Thanks, this is still on the roadmap. We’ll say more in the new year.
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Any new progress on this or beta’s to play with? I recently been using my iPad more and would love the Hook functionality there.
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I had expected to make an announcement. I had learned the hard way about making predictions about releases dates, and now about even predictions of product road map announcement dates. Sorry we need to continue to be vague about this. However, I can say that our work is in line with the principle of CogSci Apps , which is to deliver inventions (meaning that what we deliver is typically not anticipated by the market and follows from our thinking about software in IDO cognitive science terms), and if all goes according to plan, in Hook 2.3 CogSci Apps will enhance Hook’s usefulness for iOS & iPadOS (and we here too use those platforms extensively, so we understand the importance of this). We have been testing our software enhancement and will seed it to some related parties this week. This is not the iOS variant of Hook however. We expect to issue a lot of communications in March, including this week with many companies that understand the value of contextual computing. I can say that the entire team here has been working hard to help our customers link their digital lives. Thanks for your patience.
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Awesome! Excited to give it a try when it’s ready!
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Hey there, me too, me too!
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Newbie here. Just want to add my voice to the chorus eager to see Hook working on iPad OS. I have switched completely to iPad Pro, where I use Bear and have begun experimenting with Craft. My Mac is history.
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I’m hoping for an update on iOS, and Hook 3.0, before the weekend.
No timeline to offer on iOS except that our approach to it has developed over time; we are working on it in parallel with the pure Hook for macOS; and the iPhone/iPad functionality will be available this year. It is not an alternative to Hook for Mac (Paddle version) and the pricing will be fair to Hook to Mac users. macOS is still far more powerful and convenient than iOS/iPadOS. Moreover, Hook (Paddle) has benefits for iOS users. We’re waiting for Hook 3.0 to be released before we say more about those benefits because Hook 3 contains additional magic that translates to iPad/iPhone, as will subsequent versions of Hook.
I don’t understand these references to “paddle” ……
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I, too, am confused by the references. Are the Paddle and macOS / pure macOS versions different?
Fingers crossed. Eager to try Hook on iPad Pro.
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I may be wrong, so please correct me if this isn’t right, but I think that (even though the app Paddle comes to mind), they are referring to it being a companion application as opposed to being a full-fledged one
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