# Thoughts on some of the limits when using Hook

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**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 11:44am UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/thoughts-on-some-of-the-limits-when-using-hook/188 "2019-02-13T11:44:17Z")\
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As @LucB said in the post you linked to, @AutonomyGaps

> [@Managing sets of linked items](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/managing-sets-of-linked-items/112/9):
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> Hook enables users to quickly create a network (mesh or hub and spoke). But Hook does not maintain a model of the network.

This might point to the gap you sense (and I agree with you on that point). **We** have a model of the [mesh] network in our heads, but Hook **does not**. Which is not a fault, it’s just a fact.

I’ve seen three use patterns (which I believe are described elsewhere) in a nutshell.

1. A binary connection of **this** to **that** _"I want to take notes about this document, so I will have Hook create a single, linked note file_"
2. Immediately creating a one-to-many collection of **this** to **those** _“I have already collected several related documents, so I will right now have Hook create a meshed set of links between them”_
3. Gradually creating a one-to-many, or many-to-many, collection of **this _or_ these** to **those** _"I am browsing or researching over time and will build up this collection depending on where my browsing and reading takes me_"

This last one is, in my usage, the most frequent case and also the most difficult to manage with Hook. It’s really easy to do pattern #3 in DEVONthink or EagleFiler or Keep It – and maybe that’s what we users need to think about – is there a good method to make one of those apps work well with Hook and find value in doing so. So far, I’ve figured out ways to do pattern #3 but because it takes more steps to do so, I don’t yet find the value in using Hook in conjunction with (in my case) DEVONthink.

Hmmmm … need to think about this more 😺

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