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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 20, 2022 at 01:15 PM
Heptabase vs. Scrintal
I onboarded with Scrintal a couple of weeks ago. Scrintal and Heptabase are very similar in that they allow you to be whiteboards of documents. I think Heptabase is a little further along the evolutionary chain at this point, but I am confident the developers of Scrintal intend big things for it. And, as it is, Scrintal is very usable even at this point in the process.
But I must say I also like Heptabase very much. It seems to have advanced quite a bit since I introduced the topic a couple of months ago. Here’s a YouTube video that does a good job of showing Heptabase’s benefits:
It will be interesting to see how these two new apps evolve. We sure are living in a vibrant note-taking era!
Steve Z.
Posted by steveylang
Apr 21, 2022 at 05:16 PM
I signed up for the wait list for Kosmikl at the beginning of the year, still waiting.
I did get an email thanking me for my patience and giving me a free first year.
Darren McDonald wrote:
I came across another new visual thinking tool that is getting ready for
>public beta. It is called Kosmik.
>
>https://www.kosmik.app
Posted by satis
Apr 21, 2022 at 07:54 PM
Just signed up, found I’m #22xx on the waiting list. Guess I’ll wait a while, as I don’t intend to speed up the process as the devs ask by getting others to try to join.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jun 29, 2022 at 02:45 PM
Heptabase is improving in leaps and bounds.
They just transitioned the Timeline view to the Journal view, a familiar daily notes-style view. And you can now nest boards within boards (still a beta feature).
If you were intrigued by the app, it is worth keeping an eye on. Here’s a link to their Notion-based change-log:
https://heptaplatforms.notion.site/Heptabase-Version-Changelog-29ea6db0b4ff4127b83d454742de86ad
Steve Z.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jun 29, 2022 at 08:55 PM
I’ve been using Heptabase for a few days (I decided to keep it and not make use of their money-back option).
What I like
* the visual display of notes and connections,
* the ability to compile notes in whiteboards
* the fact that a note can reside in more than one whiteboard).
I’d rather have Heptabase use and store files in the file system as Obsidian does. But exporting notes as individual Markdown files works fine so there is no lockdown to Heptabase. The auto-backup also creates ZIP files containing MD files for the notes.
Looking forward to seeing features from their roadmap released (block linking, templates, and the improvements to the whiteboards).