I decided to give my emotion researcher friend the gift of a curated playlist of podcast episodes and TED Talks on emotions, plus some cognitive productivity tips for making the most out of them. They are not all worth learning from, but some of them have knowledge gems that are worth instilling.
Continue reading A Birthday Gift: Curated Listening on Emotions for Psychotherapists and Others
Today, on the Hookmark blog — I made A Case for Making TextExpander Link-Friendly.
I often write to CEOs of macOS app development companies to encourage them to make their software link-friendly. I’ve decided to start sharing some of these emails on this blog so that the broader community—developers, power users, and productivity thinkers—can join the conversation and help move the ecosystem forward.
Here is a slightly redacted version of a recent message I sent to the team at TextExpander..
If you agree, please feel free to contact TextExpander asking for this so that they understand the community’s interest in this.
I will try to maintain an Index of What I’ve Written from 2026 onwards .
Hookmark 6.12 (6436; Integration v. 398) has been released with new ways to add and automate bookmarks across your knowledge tools.
Continue reading Hookmark 6.12 – new ways to add and automate bookmarks and more
At CogZest, we celebrate tools that extend human cognition — software that helps us think better, not just work faster. Continue reading Tinderbox: A Tool for Thinking in Connections
Over the past few years, Beeper has set itself apart as one of the most integrative messaging platforms, uniting over 10 chat networks into a single interface.
Yet there is a crucial dimension of integration that is still largely missing: linkability — the ability for any message, thread, or conversation in Beeper to be reliably and automatically referenced (linked) from other tools. In other words: Beeper is not yet link-friendly.
Continue reading From Chat Hub to Knowledge Hub: The Case for Linking in Beeper
One of the things I love about being CEO of CogSci Apps is that I get to connect with many Mac app developers, promoting the ideals of the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. Continue reading Unclutter app: Hookmark Partner for the Month of September
Back in 2010, when Steve Jobs and I exchanged emails, I sent him a white paper recommending that Apple introduce system-wide linking in what was then OS X. Years later, Apple unveiled Quick Note in macOS Monterey (2021). It looked promising at first — a way to capture notes tied to what you’re working on.
Continue reading I Told Steve Jobs About Linking
The cognitive shuffle technique I invented to help people fall asleep has received a surge of media attention this year. It’s been featured in The New York Times (again), The Guardian (for the third time), BBC Science Focus, CNN, and more.
Continue reading Inside the Sleeper’s Mind: The Theory Behind the Cognitive Shuffle