Forrest Perry

Notion-like TABLES in Heptabase

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Heptabase

🎁 Heptabase sent us a Christmas present: right sidebar improvements and a new card type

Yesterday Heptabase released a new update that introduces some super duper dope features.

Heptabase

Heptabase vs. Logseq - working with PDF highlights

Heptabase currently offers a better way of working with PDF highlights than does Logseq. Check out the comparison video here if you're interested.

How I'm using Heptabase for research (so far)

In the following video, I show what it looks like when I * create in Heptabase what many would call a "permanent note" (I call such a note a "claim page" or "idea card") * extract highlights from a PDF and arrange them in groups Want

Heptabase

Drag-and-drop highlights in Heptabase

Better than Logseq, kind of like Marginnote

Heptabase

I’m trying out Heptabase (and maybe kind of abandoning Obsidian)

Using Heptabase the past few weeks has forced me to confront two major problems I have had when using Obsidian for research.

Relevance-level tagging (my piece in the latest issue of Collider)

The latest issue of the the online magazine Collider just dropped, and it contains a piece I wrote called "Relevance-level tagging: a 'backlinks plus' approach to grouping relevant information." Relevance-level tagging is something I've hinted at in one or two of the videos I&

Obsidian

2. Three information-organizing approaches I do not use for academic research

I don’t use these information-organizing approaches, but you might want to.

1. Zettelkasten (for intermediate Obsidian users only!)

Not an intermediate user of Obsidian? Then make like a tree 🌲 and get out of here.

videos

0. Peeing out a book...Mozart style

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Obsidian

Channel update

It's been a while since I've posted a new video, so I figured it was time to provide y'all with a quick channel update, which you can find on YouTube here. Below is the image I took waaaaayyyyy too long to create for this

videos

9. From source card to idea card

Watch as I turn notes on a source card into an idea card. So. Much. Fun. (Not really.)

Zettelkasten

8. Folgezettel - why creating them in your Zettelkasten is important

Learn about why I think it is valuable to create Folgezettel (sequences of notes).

PDF annotation

2. PDF-annotation apps for the iPad that play well with Obsidian, Logseq, etc. 📝

If you're one of the cool kids, then you use one (or more) of the now long list of what are sometimes called "connective-thinking apps" (e.g., Craft, DEVONthink, Heptabase, Logseq, Notion, Obsidian, Roam, Scrintal, Tana, The Archive, Tinderbox, etc.). This post will talk about PDF-annotation

Readwise's amazing read-it-later app - public beta is here!

This just in... Don't know anything about this much-anticipated app? You can learn about it from the videos linked to below: Justin DiRose: Readwise has done it again...with Readwise Reader Nicole van der Hoeven: I can finally tell you about Readwise Reader Want to start using the

PDF annotation

1. PDF-annotation apps for those who are kind of "old school" (iPad) 📝

PDF Expert vs. Goodnotes (and iAnnotate)

Obsidian

Obsidian's brand new "Canvas" feature 📽

Obsidian has now fulfilled every single one of my wishes for a note-making app.

Zettelkasten

7. Don't collect quotations—instead, handwrite reminders on source cards 📽

When I first went down the rabbit hole of looking into various ways of taking notes digitally, I found myself tempted to add to whatever note-making app I was using at the time a whole bunch of quotations that I never got around to stating in my own words.

Zettelkasten

6. Digesting information by putting it in your own words 📽

When it comes to working with ideas and developing compelling lines of thinking, I think we are better off to have as our aim not so much the creation of so-called original ideas but instead trying to make the ideas of others in some sense our own.

Zettelkasten

Why I stopped using folder cards in my analog Zettelkasten 📝

For the first few months of building a Zettelkasten, I used what I called "folder cards." For a while, I recommended that others use them as well. Not any more.

Zettelkasten

5. Where to put non-continuation cards 📽

In this video, I’m going to show you what to do when you create a new card that doesn't amount to a continuation of an already-existing card.

Zettelkasten

4. Stop creating new folder cards 📽

Are you making the mistake of thinking that you have to find the supposedly one-and-only best place for each card you create?

Zettelkasten

3. Addresses for continuation cards 📽

In this video, I’m going to show you how to decide where to put a new card and what address to put on it when that card amounts to a continuation of a card that already exists in your old-school Zettelkasten.

Zettelkasten

2. What kind of addresses should you put on your Zettelkasten cards? 📽

If you’re creating an old-school Zettelkasten, you need to give some thought to the unique identifiers, or unique IDs, that you put on your Zettelkasten cards.

Zettelkasten

1. The very first step in creating an analog, old-school Zettelkasten 📽

Just now starting to build a Zettelkasten? Watch this, but ignore the stuff about folder cards.