Merlin Project: Partner for the Month of October

We’re delighted to welcome Merlin Project, made by ProjectWizards, as our Partner of the Month of October! Merlin Project helps you plan projects, coordinate work and track progress.

Merlin Project is a highly respected project-management app for Mac, iPad and iPhone. It combines Gantt charts, Kanban boards, mind maps and resource planning to help you organize complex projects, coordinate work and track progress.

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Merlin Project and Hookmark work particularly well together. With Hookmark, you can bidirectionally link individual Merlin Project activities to supporting information in other compatible apps, including files, emails, notes and web pages. For example, you could hook a project activity to its brief, a client’s email and your meeting notes. You can then move between the activity and its supporting information without searching or navigating through folders. Your information stays in the apps where it belongs, connected to the work that requires it.

You can also use Hookmark’s Copy Link and Copy As Markdown Link commands to place links to Merlin Project activities in your notes and other documents. And with Hook to New > Merlin Project, you can create a new project file that is already linked to the resource you are working with. See our guide to using Hookmark with Merlin Project for details.

New to Merlin Project? ProjectWizards offers a free 30-day trial so you can explore its features with your own projects.

German-Canadian collaboration

Merlin Wizards is a German company. Our prime minister, Mark Carney, Canada’s 🇨🇦 Prime Minister, encourages Canadian businesses to develop ties with EU and Asian companies. We’re delighted that this partnership with ProjectWizards offers a great example of what he intends.

Hookmark and Merlin Project connecting Canada and Germany

Speaking of which, Hookmark will soon be available in German, French and Japanese.

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Hookmark wants to read your mind, guessing what information you want to access next

Learn about the RELATED section of Hookmark’s Context window: Hookmark’s link recommendation system – Hookmark.

Unlike web recommendation systems, Hookmark can recommend arbitrary information from any link-friendly app on your Mac, not just web pages but: files, emails, documents, tasks notes, datasets, figures, etc.

Meta-access problem for academics

Apart from being the lead designer of Hookmark and mySleepButton at CogSci AppsCorp., and author of CogZest books, I am an adjunct prof at Simon Fraser University.

I designed Hookmark primarily for academics. It happens that solving the meta-access problem for academics also solves it for everyone else.

CogSci Apps Corp. is currently making a push to ensure that as many academics as possible use Hookmark. So I wrote the following web page: Hookmark for Academics. The following diagram sums it up:

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If you are an academic or anyone who works with many knowledge resources on a Mac, I invite you to consider using Hookmark.

Finding Your Digital Stuff Contextually: Solving the Meta-access Problem

  • Search finds information.
  • RAG retrieves information for AI. Contextual information retrieval retrieves information for you.
  • Contextual Information Retrieval retrieves information that is related to your current task and focus.

Read about the problem, how AI has compounded it, and how to solve it on Substack and LinkedIn.

Mental Perturbance in Landmark Publication in Cognitive Science and AI

I’m pleased to report that this paper has now been selected for inclusion in the 2026 four-volume reference work Artificial Intelligence: Critical Concepts in Cognitive Science—a collection intended to map the intellectual development of AI as a field contributing to cognitive science.

You can read about mental perturbance, that paper, and a more recent paper on the same topic here: Why You Can’t Stop Thinking About Them.

As part of the learning from stories project, I also briefly explored Repetition As a Cognitive Device in Stories and Song, arguing that repetition in art (story, song, etc.) functions because it resembles mental perturbance. And mental perturbance is fundamental to human cognition and emotion.