Heptabase Updates - Note Card Highlighting, Web Cards, and more!
Dear Heptabase User,
When you're learning or researching a topic, your sources come in many forms — PDFs, web articles, your own notes. In this update, we've significantly expanded Heptabase's ability to help you read, highlight, and annotate your note cards, and introduced a new card type for saving web content into your knowledge base.
App: Highlight and Annotate Text on Note Cards
You can now highlight and annotate text directly on note cards — the same way you already can on PDF cards. Select any text, create a highlight card from it, and place it on your whiteboard to think through the key ideas visually.
App: Web Cards
A few months ago, we introduced Web Tab, which lets you open websites directly inside Heptabase alongside your cards and AI chat. Now, with a single click, you can save any website as a Web Card. Web Cards are available offline, and can be placed on your whiteboards to connect them with your other cards.
Web Cards are still in the early stages. We're planning to add support for clipping websites as Web Cards using our web clipper, highlighting and annotating Web Cards (just like you can with PDFs and note cards), syncing Zotero web snapshots into Heptabase as Web Cards, and letting AI generate Web Cards on demand.
Mobile App: Home Screen Widget
We've added a home screen widget for iOS and Android. You can search inside Heptabase, quickly write down an idea, or record a voice note to your journal — all without opening the app first.
Mindmap: Vertical Layout
Simply right-click on any mindmap and choose "Rotate Mindmap" to switch it to a vertical layout. This can be especially useful when you're working with hierarchical structures or topic outlines that read more naturally from top to bottom.
Editor: Bookmark Blocks
Paste any web link into a card and it will automatically become a bookmark block with a rich preview. If you want to keep the content for later, save it to your card library as a web card with one click so you can access it offline.
Other product updates
We've also shipped several improvements across the app:
- You can now use templates on the mobile app.
- Mindmap nodes now show a "Fold" button on hover. You can also use keyboard shortcuts to fold nodes (Cmd + Shift + Enter on Mac, Alt + Shift + Enter on Windows).
- We've doubled the AI credits for all Premium plan users.
- We've introduced a new "Premium+" plan for users with higher AI usage.
- You can now view your AI usage records in Settings → AI features.
We hope that these updates will improve your experience on Heptabase and make your learning easier and more enjoyable.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, or you want to share your use cases or contents related to Heptabase, please don't hesitate to chat with us through our in app support.
Stay tuned for future updates, and we hope you have a great day!
Best regards,
Heptabase Team