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Interview with Alan Chan, co-founder of Heptabase • Ness Labs

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Welcome to this edition of our Tools for Thought series, where we interview founders on a mission to help us make the most of our mind. Alan Chan is the co-founder of Heptabase, a visual note-taking tool that helps you learn complex topics. In this interview, we talked about the inherent dilemma of intelligent product design, how to create a co-evolution system to address this dilemma, the five parts of the knowledge lifecycle, how to solve interoperability across use cases with meta-apps, how to support both individual and collective knowledge creation, and much more. Enjoy the read! Hi Alan, thanks so much for agreeing to this interview. Let’s start with your vision. You want to build a truly universal Open Hyperdocument System. What does that mean? Our vision at Heptabase is to create a world where anyone can effectively establish a deep understanding of anything. And this universal Open Hyperdocument System (OHS) is a means to that vision. It’s hard to explain what OHS is without

FEATURED TOOL Welcome to this edition of our Tools for Thought series, where we interview founders on a mission to help us make the most of our mind. Alan Chan is the co-founder of Heptabase , a visual note-taking tool that helps you learn complex topics. In this interview, we talked about the inherent dilemma of intelligent product design, how to create a co-evolution system to address this dilemma, the five parts of the knowledge lifecycle, how to solve interoperability across use cases with meta-apps, how to support both individual and collective knowledge creation, and much more. Enjoy the

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