Heptabase

Heptabase is a visual note-taking and knowledge management tool that lets you organize your thinking on interactive whiteboards, mind maps, tables, and Kanban boards. Designed for researchers, students, and deep thinkers, Heptabase transforms how you learn and connect ideas by spatially arranging notes on an infinite canvas for visual sense-making.

Key Capabilities

Heptabase's core feature is its interactive whiteboard where notes can be spatially arranged, connected, and organized visually. The platform supports mind maps, tables, Kanban boards, and card-based note organization on an infinite canvas. PDF highlighting and annotation lets you work with research documents directly in your workspace. Audio and video transcription captures spoken content as searchable notes. AI features include chat-based interaction with your notes for summarization and research assistance. Full offline access with real-time sync works across unlimited desktop devices, mobile devices, and web browsers. Search across 10,000+ notes returns results in under a second.

Who Should Use Heptabase

Heptabase is designed for visual thinkers who need to map complex topics spatially. Academic researchers organizing literature reviews, students studying complex subjects, writers structuring long-form content, and knowledge workers building personal knowledge bases will find Heptabase's spatial approach transformative. Anyone who thinks better when they can see relationships between ideas visually — rather than in linear lists — will appreciate Heptabase's whiteboard-first approach.

Getting Started

Sign up for Heptabase with a free 7-day trial. Create your first whiteboard and start adding note cards. Arrange cards spatially to visualize relationships between concepts, connect related ideas with lines, and group related notes into clusters. Import PDFs for annotation and highlighting. Try the AI chat to ask questions about your notes or get summaries of your research.

Pricing & Accessibility: Heptabase offers a Pro plan at $8.99/month (billed annually) or $11.99/month (monthly) with limited AI credits, and a Premium plan at $17.99/month (annual) with unlimited basic AI chats and advanced features. A 7-day free trial is available. No permanent free plan.

Why Consider Heptabase: Heptabase is uniquely designed for visual thinkers who need to map complex topics spatially, offering an infinite canvas approach to knowledge management that linear note-taking tools simply cannot replicate.