Tags, Table & Kanban View Flashcards
What is the primary purpose of using tags in card organization?
To organize a set of highly homogeneous cards
Tags help categorize cards for easier management and retrieval.
When should you create cards directly on the whiteboard?
When your main use case is learning and research with a clear topic from the beginning
This approach allows for direct connection and thinking about the topic.
What should you do if your main use case is project management?
Use tags to manage your cards and move them to the whiteboard for thinking when needed
This follows the practice of ‘organize first, think later.’
What is a tag in Heptabase?
A ‘database’ for cards
Each tag database holds cards with defined properties.
What are the two types of views currently supported in Heptabase?
- Table
- Kanban
These views allow for different presentations of card properties.
What is the benefit of the table view for tags?
It presents a large amount of key information about cards all at once
For example, it can display meeting notes with dates, summaries, and importance.
How many different properties does Heptabase currently support?
Nine
These include Text, Number, Select, Multi-select, Date, Checkbox, URL, Phone, and Email.
What is a unique advantage of Heptabase regarding card properties?
Tags can share the same properties when a card has multiple tags
For instance, ‘Summary’ and ‘Importance’ can be used across different tags.
What does the kanban view help visualize?
A project’s progress
It presents different stages of tasks or ideas.
Give an example of how a product manager might use kanban view.
To present different stages of ideas: New → Thinking → Thought completed → Design completed
This helps track the progress of product development.
What is the relationship between whiteboards and tags in Heptabase?
Whiteboards provide a space for free thinking, while tags offer an organized system
Together, they enhance learning, research, and project management.
Fill in the blank: When you want to learn a topic deeply, you can create a _______ and drag the cards related to that topic onto it.
whiteboard
True or False: The kanban view is less useful than the table view for visualizing the progress of projects.
False
