Most of the tools on our machines are still document-oriented and discovering links between the inside of this document and the inside of that document is still manual.
I think beyond Hook though is the is the need to have tools that discover connections on the fly. Hook is an interesting possibility, and is headed down the path of providing links to data bits internal to apps: hooks into actions in OF, or documents in Outlinely or DEVONthink, etc. On the one hand I can see the desire to link views – link from a map to OF or whatever – and on the other hand I can see that curating that mesh of links can be a drag on time without a lot of benefit. When it comes to forming some symbiosis between the tools, it’s all on the user to figure out workarounds. There was a definite switch from I use this tool for high-level views, and this tool for managing tasks to explaining the clunky gyrations needed to link the apps.
