# Lists of Mac apps with which Hook app is compatible

**URL:** https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221
**Category:** Discussion & Help
**Created:** [February 17, 2019, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221 "2019-02-17T07:34:49Z")
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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 7:34am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/1 "2019-02-17T07:34:49Z")

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I have published the first draft of a web page, [What Mac Apps Are Compatible with Hook app](https://hookproductivity.com/what-mac-apps-are-compatible-with-hook-app). I haven’t yet linked it from another help page – I will ASAP.

If you know of other apps with which Hook is currently compatible, please let us know. Some of the apps we have not yet tested are fairly expensive and not owned by us. Others we simply have not gotten to. Or we may have tested by forgotten to list them. Of course, if some of the apps don’t actually work in your experience , we would appreciate bug reports, but please check whether they have already been reported.

Thank you!

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### Author: ![Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/ottmar/32/76_2.png) [@Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/Ottmar)
#### Post date: [February 17, 2019, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/2 "2019-02-17T17:26:24Z")

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I connect web pages to Mathematica notebooks with Hook. Works just as expected.

Also, ChronoSync is compatible

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### Author: ![Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/ottmar/32/76_2.png) [@Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/Ottmar)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/3 "2019-02-21T20:00:16Z")

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Since SourceTree is listed as TBD, I tried to use Hook with SourceTree. While it does let you create a link, it is probably not what one wants. SourceTree seems to provide the root directory where the git repository is located, not the actual SourceTree document. So the link created just points to directories that get opened by the Finder.

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2019, 5:57am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/4 "2019-02-22T05:57:01Z")

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> [@Ottmar](#):
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> SourceTree

Thank you, Ottmar. We will investigate what automation they support which hopefully will be enough. They seem to have rejected AppleScript a while ago [[SRCTREE-1169] Adding minimal AppleScript Support - Create and track feature requests for Atlassian products.](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREE-1169). Hopefully they have other automation like JavaScript that we can latch onto.

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### Author: ![stuzog](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/stuzog/32/42_2.png) [@stuzog](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/stuzog)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 6:15pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/5 "2019-02-23T18:15:13Z")

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Add Kindle for Mac? I use this frequently.

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/6 "2019-02-23T22:57:39Z")

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iBooks and Kindle are both on our list to explore more thoroughly. I also use them a lot. As far as I can tell so far, neither one of them are sufficiently scriptable to support the exact solution that Hook enables with more automatable apps. However, I have some features in mind for after the official 1.0 release that will go quite some distance; they will have other benefits as well.

Meanwhile, in my _Cognitive Productivity with macOS®: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge_, I describe how to use naming conventions to create notes documents that you can quickly access with a launcher or Spotlight. E.g., [\<author\>\<title\> .

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### Author: ![quorm](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/quorm/32/40_2.png) [@quorm](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/quorm)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/7 "2019-03-22T20:28:50Z")

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Hook can link to Curio documents but it does not create links to “idea spaces” (subsections of Curio documents). Idea spaces do have `curio://` URLs of their own, so if you work with George Browning at Zengobi he can probably help figure out how to link to the idea space.

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### Author: ![Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/ottmar/32/76_2.png) [@Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/Ottmar)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2019, 10:43pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/8 "2019-06-24T22:43:09Z")

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Well, unfortunately Mathematica’s latest version 12.0 broke the compatibility with Hook. They reworked the notebook interface to be compatible with the upcoming Mac OS (version 11 was still a 32bit version), and it seems in the process broke compatibility.

I still use Hook to paste links into the Mathematica command “SystemOpen”. It is a bit more cumbersome, but better than Mathematica’s hyperlinks, which break when a file gets moved.

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2019, 7:58pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/9 "2019-06-25T19:58:09Z")

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> [@Ottmar](#):
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> Mathematica’s latest version 12.0 broke the compatibility

thanks for letting us know. We will have a look and contact the developer if we can’t work around the limits.

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### Author: ![Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/ottmar/32/76_2.png) [@Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/Ottmar)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/10 "2019-07-04T00:39:33Z")

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I have to take that back. I’m not sure why it stopped working for me after I installed Mathematica V 12, but it is (again) working as before. May be a temporary confusion with replacing the version of the app?

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/11 "2019-07-04T01:31:47Z")

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Great news! Thanks for letting us know.

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### Author: ![stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/stevelw)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 5:51am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/12 "2019-07-04T05:51:56Z")

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I have had a couple of occasions where Hook has stopped working properly and a restart has fixed it.

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/13 "2019-07-04T05:53:13Z")

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What is the symptom? “No linkable item in …”?

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### Author: ![stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/stevelw)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 6:00am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/14 "2019-07-04T06:00:10Z")

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It doesn’t happen often and hasn’t happened for a while. I think it was ‘No linkable item’ in Ulysses the last time it happened. IIRC I could manually get the Sheet ID still, so it wasn’t that Ulysses had frozen up — not saying the issue wasn’t in the Ulysses app but I concluded at the time it was likely a ~~Ulysses~~ Hook freeze of some kind. No idea if still an issue in latest build, and I think it’s only happened twice ever.

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### Author: ![stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@stevelw](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/stevelw)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 6:09am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/15 "2019-07-04T06:09:26Z")

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Sorry, I meant I concluded it was a Hook freeze not a Ulysses freeze. I wouldn’t prioritise it though.

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### Author: ![Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/ottmar/32/76_2.png) [@Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/Ottmar)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 2:20pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/16 "2019-07-04T14:20:08Z")

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That is the message I initially got from Hook after installing the new Mathematica version.

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/17 "2019-07-04T15:47:14Z")

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Did the problem happen with Mathematica files that were created by Hook via “Link to New”? Or all/other Mathematica files?

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### Author: ![Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/ottmar/32/76_2.png) [@Ottmar](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/Ottmar)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/18 "2019-07-04T15:52:21Z")

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I did not create any of the files via “Link to new”. (I know for sure because I actually never used the “Link to New” item from the Hook menu, only the “Copy as Link” and “Copy as Markdown Link”).

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2019, 4:16pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/19 "2019-07-04T16:16:47Z")

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> [@Ottmar](#):
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> I did not create any of the files via “Link to new”.

Thanks much for the extra info. That will help us track it down.

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### Author: ![pl0](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@pl0](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/pl0)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/lists-of-mac-apps-with-which-hook-app-is-compatible/221/20 "2020-01-05T11:58:05Z")

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I’m be keen to know when Mathematica links work again. Thanks.

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