Obsidian vs Heptabase

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Posted by Tumbleweed
Dec 21, 2022 at 01:01 PM

So I tried to post earlier about which of the new knowledge organizers people recommend, with an emphasis on:
- Linking all types of data, ie. email, contacts, meetings, tasks, notes, knowledge, etc.
- Runs locally on Windows

After some investigation, I have narrowed it down to Obsidian and Heptabase. Heptabase looks amazing and has astonishing views and functionality, but appears to be more for note-type records and knowledge. Obsidian has less flash but seems to integrate many different type of data items, which is a strong plus.

So I’m leaning toward Obsidian. Any thoughts or comparisons on the two?

Posted by Tumbleweed
Dec 22, 2022 at 01:58 PM

So my earlier post was pending, hence the near double post.

I’ve decided Obsidian is the choice, so in the other post we can continue with any relevant discussion!

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 29, 2023 at 02:21 PM

Not trying to talk anyone out of Obsidian and into Heptabase, but I do want to mention that Heptabase has been getting lots of useful new features, like this one:

https://heptaplatforms.notion.site/App-PDF-Area-Highlight-and-Annotation-f07c938fa7d446bfbde733fa97221490

For the record, I have not fully committed to Heptabase, but I’m slowly sliding into doing so—I think.

Steve

Posted by satis
Jan 30, 2023 at 12:06 AM

Alan Chan’s Heptabase home on Medium has a comprehensive recap of Heptabase updates in 2022. Looks like it’s been improved a lot more than I realized.

https://medium.com/heptabase/to-heptabase-users-2022-recap-82b1e188ef8c

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