Recent Heptabase Experience

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Posted by exatty95
Dec 30, 2025 at 08:06 PM

Is anyone using Heptabase regularly? What are your use cases, and how do you like it? I used it for quite a while and found it helpful and intriguing. I stopped using it when it felt like the developers were more focused on chasing fancy new features (often AI-related) than on getting some of the basic features to work better and more seamlessly. But in true CRIMPing fashion, I remain intrigued.

Posted by Paul Korm
Jan 1, 2026 at 01:28 PM

A few times a year I check out Heptabase for a while and then delete it. I just cannot find a reason to use it. For me, Zengobi’s Curio provides all the visual notetaking and organization that I need, and it’s not reliant on someone’s cloud security.

Posted by exatty95
Jan 1, 2026 at 05:31 PM

Thanks. Part of the appeal of Heptabase is that I can use the Web version on my work computer. I also find the whiteboards much more useful than Obsidian’s for collecting and working with related notes. I use Obsidian a lot, but have not enjoyed the experience of identifying and working with related notes.

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 13, 2026 at 10:01 AM

With respect to Obsidian, I strongly recommend the plugin “Various Complements”, which despite its rather dull name offers an amazingly useful way to identify related notes as you are typing. No, it’s not obtrusive, but it is very, very quick. I find it much more useful than whiteboards.

exatty95 wrote:
Thanks. Part of the appeal of Heptabase is that I can use the Web
>version on my work computer. I also find the whiteboards much more
>useful than Obsidian’s for collecting and working with related notes. I
>use Obsidian a lot, but have not enjoyed the experience of identifying
>and working with related notes.

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