Well, I think note-taking tech is very relevant to Hook. Hook stems from research projects at Simon Fraser University on technology-enabled cognitive productivity ( meta-effectiveness) which includes note-taking . I’ve proposed that many people have given up on note taking , or at least take far fewer notes than they should, because they lack efficient means for linking notes to what they are about, creating notes and adding linking them in one shot, and accessing notes in context of source, and accessing sources in context of documents. That’s one of the main set of reasons we created Hook
We intend to run empirical studies that measure the impact of Hook on note-taking. Here’s a 2015 grant proposal: http://cogzest.com/2015/03/assessing-and-enhancing-knowledge-workers-meta-documentation-and-self-testing-a-sshrc-grant-proposal/ . After that grant proposal, co-founder Brian Shi and I decided to do Hook. (We had previously co-created gStudy and nStudy at SFU with Prof. Phil Winne.)
Hook is definitely meant to supply the “missing links” in note-taking workflows.