Heptabase - Crimp cured?

Posted by Lucas
Sep 11, 2023 at 06:01 PM

Heptabase is very impressive and I like their approach to making sense of texts by mapping out the elements. But I’m an inveterate “one-pane outliner” (although that’s a confusing term), meaning that I want each bullet point to stand as an independent unit. Plus I like to be able to add columns/fields to those bullets. With software like InfoQube, Tinderbox, Roam Research, Logseq, Tana, and Remnote, I can brainstorm in outline form and also view all my bullet points in a table view with custom fields. For example, I might want to see a table of bullets sorted by most recently modified, or perhaps sorted by a custom numerical attribute. Plus, I can transclude (“clone”) bullets freely. As of now, the bullet points within a card in Heptabase don’t appear to have such flexibility, but perhaps it will come, and Heptabase is certainly impressive as it is.

(As far as true “one-pane” outliners that also have some of the visual features of Heptabase, some of the top contenders would probably be InfoQube’s Surface view, Tinderbox’s Map view, and Logseq’s Whiteboards.)