xTiles: building a second brain visually (Notion alternative)

[@SaraDriscoll-x8x]

This was the video I was hoping to find. It's a really good - and practical - tutorial on the components of xTiles and how to use them. Thanks for making this!

[@Greg_Wheeler]

Glad it was helpful!

[@dmfrench22]

You mention having tags connecting across collections. How about creating a collection of tags, a tag "master collection", and then using the relation property in a collection to connect to the master tags collection? If you wanted to just sort/filter within a collection you could use the select or multiselect property instead of tags.

[@tamib4018]

So helpful!! Thank you for being so detailed. Perfect for my brain 🧠 😊

[@Greg_Wheeler]

@@tamib4018 so glad to hear it!

[@cosmicsalmons]

Thanks for your great video! You're doing an amazing job in making everything super clear. I started with x tiles some weeks ago ago and found it a bit complicated to understand . But your video gave me some juicy AHA moments . ;) So Thanks! And looking forward to build my 2nd braino. Best wishes from the Netherlands.

[@Greg_Wheeler]

So glad to hear it was helpful!

[@railzip]

Love your videos man. Can wait to learn more about xTiles

[@Greg_Wheeler]

Thanks man!

[@richardlees5303]

Really glad I subscribed and your emails invite me to watch how thorough you are when presenting your experiences. Well done. I like to face 270 degrees

[@Greg_Wheeler]

Thanks. So glad to hear the content has been helpful for ya!

[@richardlees5303]

@@Greg_Wheeler I'm taking it for granted xTiles does not support audio 2 typed content like G Docs does. I expect you'd have covered that if it does

[@visi7891]

cool breakdown at 1:40 Love a long video! it doesnt seem like u put this together JUST for this video (not sponsored?), or\and that you put in ACTUAL stuff, instead of the annoying-overused 'week' or 'travel planning' template. 🙏thank you lol

[@Greg_Wheeler]

@@visi7891 thanks!

[@rafael8184]

Inside a project you can create "page groups" and convert it to sliders, making it almost infinite!

[@Greg_Wheeler]

Nice!

[@RameshKumar-ng3nf]

Hello Bro 😊, I love all your informative videos 👍. Learned a lot on Heptabase from your channel. In future if possible, please do make a DEMO video on Heptabase , showing another sample example of how you do research on a topic in Heptabase. I feel stuck as i am new to heptabase . Your explanations are very nice, so requested you this topic 😊

[@Greg_Wheeler]

@@RameshKumar-ng3nf thank you for the kind words. As I’ve explored the note taking app land, I am settled on Heptabase. So more Heptabase videos are coming for sure.

[@RameshKumar-ng3nf]

@@Greg_Wheeler Thank you Bro 😊 . Eagerly waiting for those heptabase videos 😊

[@Greg_Wheeler]

@@RameshKumar-ng3nf 👊

[@dlnewman70]

Are you planning on moving away from Craft and going all in on xTiles?

[@Greg_Wheeler]

I’m actually all in with Heptabase. xTiles reached out to me to see if I’d review the app. It’s a pretty neat app, especially for projects but not something I’d use as my main note taking app.

[@dlnewman70]

@@Greg_Wheeler I started using Craft after I saw what you were doing with it. My challenge is always chasing after the next best tool that it out there. They all seem to have their pros / cons. I started many, many years ago with Evernote. I have loaded half of my life into there. Then Notion came along. Started using that and then Craft. So now I have subscriptions to all of them and I don't want to give up on any one because I have some content in all of them that I want to keep. It would be hard to standardize and move all content to one platform. But I really like what I see with xTiles. I think it could possibly work well with my work and it seems like it does have a cross over function that a lot of the other apps don't. I have really started to love my morning routine with Craft and my Bible study. I don't use it for note taking, but for reading and keeping track of Bible study and notes, it is working really well for me. I think I will keep on Craft for that purpose for now. But I am super curious and intrigued by xTiles. I haven't heard of them before so wouldn't have even known about them if it weren't for you, so the referral certainly was worth it. 🙂

[@annepollak]

@@Greg_WheelerCan you tell us why you chose heptabase over obsidian? Have you already decided to move there from Craft?

[@Greg_Wheeler]

@@annepollak that’s a great question and probably be a future video. Haha but I really like the structure of Heptabase’s meta apps (journal, cards, map, tags, highlight). Easy to use and it just makes sense to me. On top of that, I looove that when I draw connections, Heptabase shows that connection in the metadata. It shows connections to sections, text elements, other cards, etc. With Heptabase, the focus is making sense of things visually. And that aligns with my style of learning. Hope that helps.