Notion-like TABLES in Heptabase

[@jerichojeudy]

The Topics column could be another database where each topic is also a card where you could sum up what that topic will be specifically about.

[@neadfiles]

Perry, the Heptabase community, current and future users, thank you for your time and effort with all of your Heptabase videos. You are definitely "doing us a solid" ;)

[@RobertBreeze-iq1dp]

Thanks Perry, extremely useful. Great advice on this massive productivity learning curve.

[@the_aylander2939]

Thank you for this video! I had no idea that Heptabase tables are now this powerful. Not as powerful as Notion’s tables (yet), but that’s fine with me since Heptabase is soooooo much more well-suited for doing research than Notion and, it seems, any other app currently on offer.

[@forrestrperry]

Thanks! Glad you found the video helpful.

[@Wingedmagician]

love this. thanks for the help in getting started.

[@robynbieber6312]

You are too funny. Thank you for making this.

[@forrestrperry]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@stevemccoy_1]

@@forrestrperry We do need more though! How else we gonna leverage!

[@eujing]

Perry, this is tremendously helpful! would you mind I posting this tutorial to a Taiwanese/Mandarin heptabse discussion group? And I like how hilarious the intro of this video is !

[@forrestrperry]

Yes, please do! Glad you like the video. Thank you.

[@cossack4930]

Need help picking app. Are you done with obsidian? How is heptabase mobile?

[@forrestrperry]

Although I rarely use Heptabase on mobile, I would MUCH use it on mobile than I would use Obsidian on mobile. Some people love Obsidian on mobile devices, whereas I have always hated using it on them. I am not done with Obsidian because (a) I have so many notes in my Obsidian vault that transferring all of them to Heptabase would have been a pain, (b) I like having a plain-text/Markdown backup of my notes in Obsidian, and (c) I still use Obsidian to do this thing that I call "relevance-level tagging" (here's the piece where I explain relevance-level tagging, in case you're interested: www.collider.space/issue-2-relevance-level-tagging/). If I were starting from scratch, I would try out Heptabase. If you find there are things you can't do in it that are super-duper important for you to do (which is a higher threshold than finding "oh, it would be pretty cool but not really important if it could do x"), then consider switching. But if you are, say, 80% satisfied with it, I recommend you stick with it.

[@nichokp]

nice one, i also use similar method to u in hepta for my zettelkasten. i'm curious how u use the whiteboard/mindmap feature for maximizing the zettelkasten method..

[@forrestrperry]

At this point, I can't say that I have figured out how to use the whiteboard and/or mindmap feature to enhance the way I build my Zettelkasten. I use MindNode to maintain a mindmap of my claim pages (a.k.a. zettels). I was thinking of switching to using Heptabase's mindmap feature, but at the time I thought of doing that, I learned from another user that a Heptabase board slows down quite a bit once you have 200+ cards on it. With recent improvements in Heptabase's performance (sometime in the past 2-3 weeks, if I recall correctly), apparently boards can have more cards on them without slowing down. In the future, I might take another crack at creating a mindmap of my zettels, but if I were to do so, I would probably still want to maintain the mindmap I have in MindNode in part because my MindNode file is relatively small and in part because I want to have a backup of my zettelkasten.

[@aj69blue]

Amazing set up. What do the numbers mean and how do you generate them on your claim cards?

[@forrestrperry]

Thanks for your comment. Here's a video about what addresses to put on cards that I posted a year or so ago: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f33YhKuLjr6dg9Usi=UkA2pU1F3mygXUlg However, it's this one that comes closer to showing how I go about putting addresses on cards: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eV6ThYt4nrGbfdksi=sdQcEHy9IoZFEByU The only thing to keep in mind when watching that second video is that not long after posting it, I decided to stop using what I was calling "folder cards." My explanation for why I stopped doing that can be found here: www.fpnotes.io/why-i-stopped-using-folder-cards-in-my-analog-zettelkasten/ As for how I generate the card addresses, I manually type them out. I believe there are one or two Zettelkasten software programs out there that take care of the numbering for you, but that's not something I need. I hope this information helps.

[@TheMonopaul]

Tagles 😂 You made my day.

[@robertd78m]

I realize this is a late comment, but are you still using an analog Zettelkasten in addition to Heptabase? I'm interested in an analog system, but it seems like most people end up switching to a digital system at some point.

[@forrestrperry]

I am not using an analog Zettelkasten anymore. Even when I was using it, I was backing everything up in Obsidian, where I like to do this thing I call "relevance-level tagging." It became too onerous to maintain both the analog Zettelkasten and the "enhanced" version of it it Obsidian (I put "enhanced" in quotation marks because some might argue that anything digital is always inferior to analog, as cell phones are clearly inferior to the rotary dial phones, *of course*). If I had started with Heptabase from the beginning, I likely would have used only Heptabase. But currently I am using Heptabase + Obsidian because (a) I love working within Heptabase, (b) one can't do relevance-level tagging in Heptabase, and (c) I had way too many notes in Obsidian for it to be other than a pain in the behind to move everything over to Heptabase.

[@phinsxiii]

Nice. You can do the same thing in Notion for free.

[@marthenabriski9982]

Promo>SM

[@doomboyfiasco]

curious about that claim that israel is not an apartheid state 🤔

[@doomboyfiasco]

good video tutorial though

[@forrestrperry]

That’s for a claim card that captures an author’s argument that it’s not an apartheid state because it doesn’t need the indigenous population to remain in the country to function as a source of labor. Palestinians on this account are more like, say, Native Americans in what became the U.S. than like the indigenous population in apartheid South Africa.