Three years ago this month, Luc Beaudoin, the creator of Hookmark, published the Manifesto for Ubiquitous Linking. The idea was to bring together developers in all categories and promote “Ubiquitous Linking” in Mac software, a concept that improves cognitive flow and productivity. I was one of the original signatories, but since then plenty have joined in.

The manifesto is simple, and calls on developers to do their part by:

  1. ensuring their users can conveniently obtain a link to the currently open or selected resource via a user interface; and
  2. providing an application programming interface (API) to obtain or construct a link to that resource (i.e., to get its address and name).

If you’ve used Hookmark, you’re familiar with (and hopefully love) this concept of linking anything to anything on your Mac. Marked and nvUltra both work with Ubiquitous Linking, along with a ton of other apps like Obsidian, DEVONthink, Calibre, Curio, MindNode, MailMate, Arc Browser, and many more.

As part of the promotion of this anniversary, I’m offering Marked 2 at a 30% discount using the coupon code ULMANIFESTO (good until January 1st). Click here to redeem!