Today, we’re excited to announce that the AI Tutor feature is officially out of public beta! In the latest version, we’ve granted 1,000 AI Tutor credits to all Pro, Premium, and PremiumPlus subscribers. These credits will allow you to start a new course and complete a few lessons, giving you a taste of how AI Tutor can transform the way you learn in the AI era. Please note that these credits will **expire** on April 22, 2026, so you have about two weeks to try it out and let us know what you think! Once you run out of your granted credits, if you want to use AI Tutor more but don’t necessarily need everything included in the Premium plan (unlimited basic AI chats and PDF parsing) or the PremiumPlus plan (a 33% discount on all AI credits), you can enable on-demand usage and set a monthly spending limit. Finally, we want to share a bit more about the product direction we’re heading toward. From the very beginning, Heptabase has been a company dedicated to inventing the best way to learn and do research. In the AI era, where AI possesses more knowledge than any human in history, we see a clear path to upgrading Heptabase into a service that can help you achieve any learning and research goal: - We, as humans, should spend most of our time reading, thinking, asking, practicing, and making the decisions that truly matter to us. - AI agents, on the other hand, should spend most of their time teaching us, guiding our research, organizing our knowledge bases, executing our tasks, and solving our problems at scale. To achieve this, we currently have two major tracks in our product roadmap: - The first track is to continuously improve the reading, thinking, and practicing experience for human (e.g., an upgraded mobile PDF reader, web annotation, EPUB reader, handwriting support, better whiteboards, flashcards, etc.). We also want to ensure that all this knowledge and understanding can translate into the important decisions you make in your life and career. - The second track focuses on building powerful AI agents with long-term memory. These agents will understand the best way to teach you, guide your direction in your learning and research, find and read high-quality sources, and take notes to organize in your knowledge base. They will even be able to run code, conduct experiments, and transform their findings into written content, explainer audios and videos, and interactive web cards. We believe both tracks are equally important, and we are investing heavily in them. We’ll spend more time writing about this in the coming months, but in the meantime, we encourage you to try out AI Tutor and let me know what you think!

In the latest version, you can highlight and annotate PDF cards on your mobile app. Both iOS and Android are supported!

Hi everyone, in the latest version, you can now publish individual cards and share them on social media with one click. You can use it to share any notes and files, as well as the lesson materials created by the AI tutor!

Following last week’s release of the Heptabase CLI, today we’ve had the official Heptabase CLI Skills cooked. With these skills installed, agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor can use CLI commands more effectively and avoid common hallucinations and mistakes. Get Started: github.com/heptameta/heptaba… We’ll keep updating these skills as we expand the CLI’s capabilities. If you find something useful or have feedback, feel free to share with us!

Today, we're excited to release the Heptabase CLI — a new way for external AI agents to interact with your local Heptabase knowledge base from the terminal. Once enabled (Settings > AI Features > CLI), any AI coding agent (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) can: - Create, read, and edit note cards and journals - Search your Card Library - Manage tags - Read your AI Tutor courses, lessons, and chat history This is just the first step; we'll keep expanding the CLI surface so AI agents can act on your knowledge at the same depth that you can. If you build something interesting with it, feel free to share with our community!

In the latest version, you can export the whiteboard as an image!

AI Tutor is now available in the latest version of Heptabase!

If you've created templates in the desktop app before, you can now use them directly in the latest version of the mobile app!

In the latest version, you can paste web links into bookmark blocks and mention nodes! You can also easily save a web link to the card library directly from its bookmark block so you can access it offline in the future!

In the latest version of the mobile app, you can add a home screen widget to search inside Heptabase, quickly write ideas, and record voice notes!

In the latest version, you can rotate the mindmap into a vertical layout!

In the latest version, you can highlight and annotate text on note cards!

In the latest version, we’ve introduced the Web Card: save full website snapshots with one click so you can view them offline, search them across your knowledge base, and connect them on whiteboards with your notes.

In the latest version, we’re excited to introduce AI actions for cards! You can now hover over any card on the whiteboard and pick an AI action to run on it—like translating, summarizing, or creating a mind map from the card’s content. You can also create your own custom AI actions, so you don’t have to type the same prompt again and again. For example, you can set up a “Study Guide” action with your preferred format—then anytime you click Study Guide, AI will generate it instantly. We can’t wait to see what kinds of actions you create—feel free to share your favorites with us!

Today we’re excited to announce that Heptabase MCP (Model Context Protocol) is officially in public beta! If you're a normal user, you can use MCP to connect Heptabase to ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI services. This will unlock two powerful workflows: - Save to Heptabase: Imagine you’re discussing a topic with ChatGPT and find the conversation useful. You can simply ask ChatGPT to summarize the discussion into a note and save it to Heptabase as a card or append it to today’s journal. - Consult your Knowledge Base: You can ask ChatGPT to find whiteboards and cards related to a topic, read them, and provide answers based on your existing knowledge, without even opening Heptabase at all! If you’re an AI developer, you can use our MCP to build advanced workflow automations with the tools we provide. To get started, check out this document we wrote: support.heptabase.com/en/art…

Today, we’ve made some big changes to Heptabase. Many of you use Heptabase as your core knowledge base, storing not just notes but also textbooks, research papers, video lectures, and daily journals. Over the past few months, we’ve seen a growing wave of requests for a NotebookLM-like experience right inside Heptabase—one where you can ask anything, and the AI finds and reads your sources to craft trustworthy responses with accurate citations. We're happy to announce that we’ve officially brought this experience to Heptabase—and we’ve even gone beyond it. We’ve fully integrated AI into our built-in note-taking, whiteboarding, PDF reading, and video-watching workflows. This means you can not only ask AI about anything in your knowledge base, but also treat it as a reading partner that explains whatever you’re currently looking at. We’ve implemented this in a way that respects user privacy by self-hosting all data parsing and embedding services. No AI provider can see your data unless you choose to chat with them, and you can always specify what AI can or can’t read. Here are the three major things we’ve shipped in this latest update: First, we’ve introduced a “Research a topic” button on the left sidebar. This opens an interface where you can upload many types of sources: PDFs, YouTube links, documents, images, and more (Web Cards and EPUB support are coming soon!). Once you click “Start Research,” we add them to a new whiteboard as cards, parse PDF contents, and download video transcripts. This allows you to ask AI anything about the whiteboard and get accurate citations pointing back to specific blocks or timestamps in your sources. You can save any AI response as a card with just one click. Second, we’ve given the AI a suite of tools to use during its thinking process. Our AI can search your entire knowledge base using both keyword and semantic search, perform deep search inside specific PDFs, and intelligently decide to read more pages or look for more notes when needed. This becomes especially powerful when you’re using premium models such as Gemini 3.0 Pro, GPT 5.1, or Claude 4.5 Sonnet. In my own testing, it was able to pinpoint the best content across my 8,000 notes and 300 PDFs and use that information to provide answers with citations to specific pages. Third, we’re collaborating with Google to give all Pro subscribers and free trial users a monthly AI credit. You can now chat with the most advanced Google Gemini models at no extra cost. If you hit the monthly limit, you can upgrade to the Premium Plan, which gives you 10× the Pro usage limit plus access to all the latest models from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. This means you can always use the most advanced possible model inside your knowledge base. While we can’t guarantee how much AI credit we’ll be able to provide free trial users over time, we can guarantee that right now—and over the next few months—will be a special period during which free trial users can access the most AI during their trial. If you haven’t tried Heptabase before, now is the best time. There are many tools on the market that allow you to ask AI about your sources, but simply asking AI is not enough to establish a deep understanding of a topic. What matters more is what you do before and after asking AI: READING the sources, WRITING about what you’ve learned in your own words, and MAPPING out how different ideas connect. These fundamental methods for learning and research remain irreplaceable if you truly want to master something. That’s why a great PDF reader, a rich text editor, and a powerful whiteboard matter. While Heptabase already has some of the best features in these categories, we’re now combining the strengths of knowledge management and AI to create the best possible environment for learning and research. We’ve updated our website slogan to “Master anything you learn. Do your best research with AI.” We’re excited about everything we’ll be shipping in the upcoming months—features we believe will help you understand and create knowledge in ways you never thought possible.

In the latest version, you can enable AI to use your entire knowledge base as context. Ask anything—AI will search your notes, journals, and PDFs, find the exact content you need, and answer with accurate citations. For the first time, your knowledge base actually feels alive.