How to use Hooks to keep up-to-date about Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Hooks is a cool app for anyone looking to know anything about anything without having to look for it. Don't believe me? Let's try it out.

For the purposes of this guide, let's assume we're wanting to know all of the new information that comes out in the lead up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Here are some things you can do with Hooks to make you a veritable Jedi of Force Awakens knowledge.

Push notifications for social media

This is actually pretty easy to setup. The create alerts menu lets you pick and choose alerts from all the social media platforms you can think of.

Following official accounts would involve setting up alerts for posts by a particular author, like the offical Star Wars Twitter, Instagram, Vine, and YouTube accounts, while seeing conversations could be applied by setting up alerts for particular keywords or hashtags (e.g. #BB8).

The coolest part about all of this is you don't even have to have accounts with these services to view these posts. They just open up in Hooks's built-in browser.

Track showtimes

Setting up a way to get Hooks to show tickets and showtimes is slightly more complicated, but still super useful.

To do this, you'll have to create a custom rss feed for theaters near you using something like Fandango first, but once you have that url, showtimes will appear in Hooks for your local area. You can even get notifications for specific theaters if you want.

The bonus with setting up a feed like this is that it'll still be useful after The Force Awakens comes out, since it shows all local listings.

Diving deep

If you really can't get enough of Star Wars, there's a lot of things you can setup in Hooks to keep feeding you what you want.

Want to know when John Williams's soundtrack comes out? Set up an alert for a new music release by artist. Want to know when the Star Wars: Battlefront comes out for the console of your choice? Set up an alert for videogames by keyword. Do you even want to know when Star Wars-related events or Meetups are happening around you? Hooks has got you covered.

Of course, if you're interested in other topics, or want a finely tuned list of things that get pushed to you automatically, Hooks can definitely deliver on that front.

Overall, it's a really simple and useful app for anyone interested in having automated notifications about specific things.

Have any tips about how you use Hooks? Let us know in the comments below!