How I visually organize notes in Heptabase (note-taking methods)

hey there deep thinker today I want to talk about how I've designed my knowledge map in hepb right

so the first thing that I want to address or talk about is what is the map in hept toase well

it's a visual way to lay out your ideas and your thoughts the founder of he toase actually said it

this way the principle of thinking and creating is visual to clarify our thinking we often have

to visualize the big picture of our ideas moving and reorganizing information on visual space is a

critical process to augment thinking in Hep toase The Meta app responsible for this task is called

map so we see here a big purpose of the map is to clarify our thinking and augment or increase our

thinking right and the best way to do that is visually seeing the information connected with

lines and grouped in sections can help our brains make stronger connections between our ideas now

on the map the only thing that you can do is add a whiteboard it's not a place for cards or text

elements and sections and the connection lines just as a geographical map reveals where you are a

knowledge map reveals who you are I want to pause just for a moment here and give you a free gift

for hanging out with me today this is a short PDF guide on how to get insights from the non-fiction

books that you read and that you love into your PKM system by the end of this guide you'll have

a simple system for highlighting your books a mindful approach for adding content to your PKM

system or PKM Notes app a process for creating building blocks of knowledge for the future and

then a simple tip for making more connections between your notes the link to the free guide

is in the description ion below all right so when we go into the map right and go into the map um

you can see I've got about nine whiteboards here uh the first one that I want to start with is uh

this whiteboard titled God notes right it's these are insights uh that I get while I'm studying

scripture now I do have some Sub whiteboards in here because those topics or books uh warranted

a new whiteboard with the amount of information so for example if I dive into Joseph here you can see

this is a massive section and then I have sections within this section right here uh and each of

these sections are usually chapters of a book and so I will or even part of a chapter of a book

maybe even a section of a chapter uh depending on the length of the uh the length of the chapter so

these these whiteboards they in these sections right they contain the source which is the Bible

along with my insights tucked inside the sections so this is the actual Source text and then I have

arrows connecting thoughts ideas insights and then I can I can link to other sections right so I can

jump over to this section right here it takes me right to it which is very nice and then I have

another one right here where I actually can jump into a section of another whiteboard um if I click

on this it takes me into a whole other whiteboard uh titled Jacob and and it takes me right to this

section where I can get context of the ideas now uh these other whiteboards that I have uh I

have these all these ones that start with a life of uh a life of creating a life well- lived a

life of learning a life of width and then there's this wisdom one right here uh these are my value

whiteboards um you may be asking why values well I like to collect ideas based on what

I value because it helps me filter the noise to only focus on the sounds that resonate right in

this case it's my life values so I found that the quality of the ideas that I take in has improved

by using values as a collection filter if you want to call it that so for example uh a life of

creating right here if I go into this whiteboard at the very top level it's a life of creating and