ThinkingTools, softwares which helps in ThinkingProcess

Posted by jsamlarose
Dec 9, 2021 at 11:27 AM

Mmm. I’ve had a few strange experiences with developers that have coloured my experience of the apps they’re working on. Which is to say that I empathise, even if I haven’t had that same experience with Heptabase— though I did find their onboarding a little anxiety inducing! They wanted to observe me using the tool when they’d just introduced me to it, which makes sense and sounds fairly reasonable, but I completely spaced in the moment and focused more on “performing” knowledge work than actually figuring out how this new tool might work for me…

Lucas wrote:
Yes, I’ve personally been keeping an eye on Heptabase. I definitely look
>forward to trying it out! Last I checked, the only way to try it was to
>set up an onboarding call, and the next opening was months away. I went
>ahead and scheduled one. I then got in touch directly with the developer
>and asked if I could try the software sooner. He said that might be
>possible, and then asked if I use Zotero. I said yes. And then he said I
>can’t try the software yet because the Zotero feature hasn’t been added.
>It was like a trick question. The exchange left me feeling like the
>developer is rather pretentious (or at least has an odd way of
>communicating), but no matter, I look forward to trying out the software
>eventually.