Heptabase Public Wiki

Our vision is to create a world where anyone can effectively establish a deep understanding of anything.

Getting Started

• ⭐ Getting Started with Heptabase
• ⭐ Use Case and Workflow
• ⭐ Fundamental Elements
• ⭐ User Interface Logic
• Video Tutorials
  • ⭐ Heptabase Fundamentals 101: Sense-making with whiteboards
  • Heptabase Fundamentals 102: Organizing topics with nested whiteboards and tab groups
  • Heptabase Fundamentals 103: Managing card databases with tags and properties
• Founder's Demo
• Keyboard shortcuts

Workflow

• Organize knowledge & projects.
• Capture ideas & knowledge.
• ⭐ Learn & research a topic.
• Write essays & papers.
• Collaborate and discuss with others
• Work with AI
• Read PDFs, media, eBooks & webpages.

Vision

• 2023/08/31 ⭐ Heptabase 1.0
• 2023/05/01 ⭐ 05: The Roadmap.
• 2021/10/28 04: The Knowledge Lifecycle.
• 2021/04/26 03: A Forgotten History.
• 2020/07/16 02: A New City.
• 2020/06/29 01: The Context.

AMA Record

• AMA - November 2024
• AMA - August 2024
• AMA - October 2023 (Reddit)

Updates

• ⭐ Heptabase - Public Roadmap
• Heptabase - Version Changelog

Help

• ⭐ How can I contact Heptabase support?

Public Info

Youtube, Podcast, Press, Blog

• 2023/12/08 ⭐ Make sense of complex topics with Alan Chan, co-founder of Heptabase - Ness Labs
• 2023/10/03 專訪 Heptabase 創辦人詹雨安，如何閱讀、學習、管理知識、推薦書單？
• 2023/08/12 Heptabase vs Notion vs Obsidian - Alan Chan
• 2023/08/08 Unveiling Heptabase's Bright Future: Exclusive Interview with Co-Founder Alan Chan - YouTube
• 2023/07/31 Note-Taking Evolved: Why Heptabase beats Evernote, Obsidian, Tana, Scrintal, Milanote... - YouTube
• 2023/01/01 To Heptabase Users: 2022 Recap.
• 2022/06/24 How to do research with modern note-taking tools?
• 2022/04/27 星箭廣播 156 集——在 Y Combinator「加速」三個月是什麼感覺？
• 2022/01/15 Heptabase: The visual note-taking tool for learning complex topics. | Y Combinator
• 2021/10/06 星箭廣播 128 集——一個全新的筆記軟體與一本半世紀前的報告
• 2021/09/29 星箭廣播 127 集——他想改變 Internet，第一步是打造全新的筆記軟體

Use cases from our users

• Build a journal calendar whiteboard in Heptabase
• Use Heptabase to Plan Your Dream Adventures
• Plan a trip and write travel journals by Heptabase
• Learn about childcare through Heptabase
• Use Heptabase to brainstorm how to organize Heptabase
• Use Mindmap nodes as a substitute for text elements
• Organizing revisions of a substantial piece of writing