I’m testing Hook, too. I keep going back and forth between thinking this is the best thing ever, to wondering if I could do all of this just as easily and more permanently in DT3. Still testing, and glad to see others with the same interest.
I’m a long time user of TheBrain. Hook feels like TheBrain without the interface. I have used TheBrain as a Control Center of sorts for DT. For whatever reason, I’ve tended to lose my place within DT, especially when in the heat of a meeting and trying to find pertinent material while focusing on what is happening in the room. That happens to me less in TheBrain. It is probably more of a reflection on me and my thinking process than the software itself. For those unfamiliar with TheBrain, it works very well with robust item links to DT files.
Hook may be able to bridge the need for a more efficient Control Center, but as I mentioned in another thread that never got any traction, I’m still looking for a good way to put the “think” in DEVONthink. I still think there’s some way of doing this with a combination of creating Table of Contents files and links in annotations. That’s kinda what’s happening with Hook, but it is just so easily invoked that I’m getting addicted to it.