We're creating a new series of tutorials that teach you the features, workflows, and real-world examples of how to best use Heptabase.
The first video discusses how to use the whiteboard for sense-making. We highly recommend that you check it out!
We have published an article called "The Best Way to Acquire Knowledge from Readings".
In this article, we share a real-world example of how we developed an effective method for acquiring, retaining, and applying knowledge using Heptabase.
We’ve officially launched Heptabase 1.0 today! If you’ve never used Heptabase before, you can now register for a one-week free trial!
In this article, I will share what problem Heptabase 1.0 aims to solve, for what types of people. I will also cover the…
This morning, we were thrilled to learn that Heptabase has won the
@ProductHunt
's 2023 Golden Kitty Award in the Personal Productivity category!
We would like to start by thanking all the users who love and support Heptabase. Throughout the two years of early product…
Many people have asked us: which is better among Heptabase, Notion, and Obsidian? How do these tools differ? What unique advantages does Heptabase offer?
We recommend checking out this article from Heptabase's co-founder,
@alanchan_tw
:
Heptabase mobile app is now available on the App Store and Google Play! You can have full access to all your cards and journals, search with blazing-fast speed, enjoy the full editor's power, and read all of your whiteboards.
For Android users, we only support version 12 or…
We've upgraded our PDF reader recently to support full-text search, zooming, outlining, switching pages, fitting width, and direct highlight mode for text and area!
Starting from the latest version, when your card's height grows during typing, it will space out the cards below and auto-grow the section surrounding it to fit the content.
We believe this mechanism will save a lot of time spent manually rearranging cards on the whiteboard and…
We're happy to announce that
@Heptabase
is a part of the
@ycombinator
W22 batch. We remain dedicated and focused on building tools to help people learn better, think deeper, and make sense of the massive information in our complex world.
In the latest version, we have introduced the first version of our Task App, which displays all unchecked to-dos across Heptabase. We'll release many more upgrades to the Task App very soon, including grouping, due dates, keyboard shortcuts, and more.
We're big fans of "Your Name" and many other animated movies directed by
@shinkaimakoto
. We're thrilled to see Heptabase being used to create even more great movies!
Heptabase just got Product of the Day 1st from
@ProductHunt
!
We want to thank you all for your support, and thank the user who hunted us. Our 1.0 version and full mobile app are coming soon this month. Stay tuned!
Hello everyone! Although we had originally planned to launch Heptabase on Product Hunt in September, someone has already hunted us on Product Hunt today. If you like what we're building, please support us by upvoting!
In the latest version, you can
- Import PDF files as cards
- Mention PDF cards from the note cards' editor
- Open PDF cards in the popup window, tab, right sidebar, etc
- Put PDF cards on whiteboards
- Sync all PDF cards across devices in real-time
- Access all PDF cards offline
In the latest version, you can turn on the card type filter in the card library to see all your existing journals and turn it off anytime if you don't want to see them. Additionally, you can add tags to journals, import journals to the whiteboard through import panels, etc.
In the latest version, we have introduced image elements on whiteboards!
We have also upgraded our export function so that all mindmaps will be exported as markdown files, and all tags and properties will be exported in YAML format in the markdown files.
On Christmas Eve, we present you v0.242.0! In this version, you can add highlights and annotations to your PDF cards. You can use all our editor features in the annotation tool, including creating links to existing cards.
More advanced features on PDF are coming soon!
In the latest version, you can connect a mindmap node with anything on the whiteboard, including cards, journals, highlights, texts, whiteboards, sections, and even other mindmap nodes!
We just released a new version of our mobile app! In this version, we've significantly improved the overall app performance, as well as fixed some of the issues reported!
In the latest version (v0.216.0), you can connect Heptabase to your
@readwise
account and access all your highlights directly from a whiteboard. When you copy a highlight and paste it onto a card, Heptabase automatically generates a source link.
We have just released a new version of our mobile app! In this version, we have introduced a new Home that includes all your cards, whiteboards, tags, and highlights!
In the latest version, we’ve launched Assistant — an AI chatbot that can provide you with the best card recommendations based on your questions, regardless of the language and phrases you use.
Please note that Hepta AI does not use your data to train AI models.
We've upgraded the task app in the latest version: now you can assign due dates to todo items and see them grouped by "Today," "Upcoming," "Overdue," and "No due date." You can also use the arrow keys to navigate these todo items and use the Cmd + Enter shortcut to check them.
In the latest version of the desktop app, we have introduced the version history for cards, journals, highlights, and text elements!
This allows you to see how your content has evolved over time and revert back to a specific point in time.
In the latest update, we've combined the low capturing friction of daily journaling and the power of visual thinking.
Step 1: Dump ideas in your Journal.
Step 2: Create new cards by dragging blocks from Journal to a whiteboard.
*Capture first, think later.*
We are preparing for a 1.0 soft launch sometime in August. We want to give a heads up on how the pricing model works for different types of people after 1.0 launch.
If you’ve NEVER used Hepta before:
- We will offer a free trial after 1.0 launch.
- We will no longer offer the…
TL;DR
The purpose of visualizing notes is to gain a deep understanding of what you've learned. If all of your notes are very long and you don't break down the knowledge into smaller parts, the understanding you can gain from visualization will be very limited. Real deep…
We have published an article called "The Best Way to Acquire Knowledge from Readings".
In this article, we share a real-world example of how we developed an effective method for acquiring, retaining, and applying knowledge using Heptabase.
We have published an article called "How Heptabase’s founder use Heptabase for learning, research, planning, and writing."
This is the most important article we have published, which documents a two-year experience of using Heptabase to run a company.
“Increasing the capability of a cat to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit its particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.” -- Douglas Engelbart on Augmenting Cat Intelligence.
In the latest version, you can now use your Arrow Keys to navigate objects on your whiteboards! This new feature, in addition to the existing zoom-to-fit shortcut (shift + 2), gives you a smoother experience when reviewing whiteboards!
In the latest version, we’ve launched Highlight App. If you’ve enabled
@readwise
Integration or used our PDF highlight & annotation features, all your highlights & annotations will be displayed alongside their source.
Heptabase is in open beta! We're offering a 20% early-bird discount for a yearly subscription, with a 1-week money-back guarantee and a free 1-1 call with founders.
We are focusing on customers with hair-on-fire problems. Please don't subscribe if you just want to "try it out."
In the latest version, you can perform Prev/Next for whiteboard cards & popup windows (don't forget the Cmd + [ & ] shortcut). We've also raised the size limit of every PDF card to 500 MB.
A major editor upgrade is coming soon. PDF annotation is also coming soon. Stay tuned!
We have been gradually upgrading our design system over the past month. This includes a more polished design for the sidebar, dialogues, menus, widgets, command palette, search, action panels, and many other small areas. We hope you enjoy the new experience!
In the latest version, you can upload files, videos, audio, and images in the card editor with FULL offline support, i.e., you can access everything without an internet connection.
We have upgraded our search engine in the desktop app!
- Improved search performance: able to search 100k cards in less than 1 second.
- Multi-keyword search without order.
- Ability to search for block results and display them in a preview.
- Highlight matched string.
In the latest version, we've introduced Highlight Color and Sort! Now, you can sort PDF highlights by pages or creation time. As for Readwise highlights, we sort them based on the orders provided by Readwise.
Heptabase has been nominated as a finalist for the
@ProductHunt
2023 Golden Kitty Award for Personal Productivity!
If you like what we're building, please vote here before January 21, at 11:59 pm PT:
Tomorrow is the last day we will be offering an early bird lifetime discount for new users.
After tomorrow, we will open a free trial and revert the pricing back to its normal rate.
For more details, please refer to this FAQ:
We have just launched a new version of the mobile app! In this version, you can view the backlinks, whiteboards, tags, and properties for all your cards and journals!
In the latest version, you can easily view cards under a specific tag in kanban view and move them across different columns based on their status properties.
We hope this new feature will make it even simpler for you to keep track of your thoughts in different stages.
We just published the second video of the new series of Heptabase tutorials. In this video, we talked about how to organize topics with nested whiteboards and tab groups!
We're happy to announce that we've closed a $1.7 million seed round from HOF Capital, Y Combinator, Kleiner Perkins, Moving Capital, Tonic Fund, and other investors, including the founders of Socialcam, Triplebyte, Codementor, and more.
It took us two weeks to build an app that visualizes your notes.
It took us two years to build an app that makes you enjoy learning endlessly.
The devil is in the details.
In our latest newsletter, we covered the left sidebar upgrade, including tab groups, tab folders, and pinned tabs.
We also shared an impressive use case: Learning about childcare through Heptabase.
Check out the web version here 👇
In the latest version, we have significantly improved the editor's performance and introduced new editing features such as block linking, changing table width, adding multiple blocks in a table cell, colored text, etc. More features on the editor are coming soon.
We've released v1 of the tag's Table View in the latest version. You can now
- Display cards under a tag in Table View
- Add properties to cards in tag’s Table View
- Reuse the same card properties across multiple tags
In the latest version, you can pull your highlights from
@readwise
and PDFs from the right sidebar to the whiteboard. More updates on highlights & annotations are coming soon!
In the latest version, we've added links from annotations to the backlink section. We've also added a button in each backlink to help you jump back to the original PDF reference block in one click.
We have shipped the first part of our arrow upgrade! This upgrade includes the arrow toolbar, custom control point, direct edit arrow description, straight arrow, and curve arrow.
More updates, including elbow arrows, colors, line styles, and arrowhead styles, are coming soon!
After the interview with
@alanchan_tw
, the co-founder of
@Heptabase
, we are more confident than ever that this tool will become the next big thing in the note-taking industry and
#PKM
Movement...💚
📺 Watch the full interview here:
Heptabase mobile app v1 is now on Apple Store and Google Play!
This v1 only has one feature — capture ideas and send them to the Heptabase Card Library, just like sending emails.
We're thrilled to announce that the latest update to Heptabase is now available! The biggest feature in this update is that you can now embed highlights in your cards.
“Increasing the capability of a cat to approach a complex problem situation, to gain comprehension to suit its particular needs, and to derive solutions to problems.” -- Douglas Engelbart on Augmenting Cat Intelligence.