Hookmark can be hard to understand at first because it solves a type of problem that no other software previously addressed. In my Cognitive Productivity: Using Knowledge to Become Profoundly Effective book, I called this the meta-access problem problem. It addresses a new type of information retrieval need.
- Traditional information retrieval asks: “Where is this document?”
2. Semantic retrieval asks: “What documents discuss this topic?”.
- I believe we increasingly need contextual information retrieval: “Given what I’m working on right now, what else belongs with it?”
Yesterday and today I published too articles about this. One on Substack:
The other on LinkedIn:
Can those articles help newbies understand contextual information retrieval and Hookmark? Please let me know what you think here or on the other platforms.