✍️ Last Updated: October 21, 2025

Hey there! I'm Xiaochang 🌭
It's time for my weekly letter to grow a little together with you!

💭 From the Previous'Everyone Has Their Gut' Lecture Data:

• 58 people registered
• 25 people attended live
• 16 people filled out feedback survey and received slides
• 1 person interested in being a speaker for future lectures

(We truly welcome you to be a speaker! As long as you have fewer than 1,000 followers and your topic suits my readers, just let me review it)

Looks like everyone was less interested in the AI-generated image topic!

Reflection Takeaways

| Teacher Cang |

◽ What will everyone learn today? Presenting 3 things will be clearer.
◽ You can showcase the results first (put on slides, don't open IG community).
◽ If Heptabase needs to display many images, open them beforehand to avoid lag; otherwise everyone has to wait.
◽ 'Workflow' should be as visual as possible, incorporated into the slides.
◽ Links to be shared in the chat group can be prepared in advance.
◽ Make the slides look non-AI; for example, text can be further simplified.
◽ Log in early to test microphone audio and screen sharing.

| Xiaochang |

◽ In the future, I'll ask about the sales process earlier and create the store checkout page in advance.
◽ Get the teacher's social media and IG information earlier.
◽ Research how to play opening music in Google Meet. (Already learned)
◽ Remember to record story videos during class next time as promotional material.

🎁 Free Registration for 'Everyone Has Their Gut' — 'Not Writing Notes, But Writing Your Life: CLAY Practice Workshop'

✦ Lecturer: Ju Pang
✦ Time: 2025/07/21 (Wed) 19:30 – 21:00 (incl. Q&A)

This talk is part of the [Each Has Their Gut] thematic series, where Xiaochang invites non-influencer amateur experts (professional craftspeople usually stay offline) to share for free.
One session per month with limited spots available! Amateur teachers may not be professional at "lecturing"—please choose carefully 💛

Ju Pang has developed her own note-taking methodology. Although Xiaochang has also developed a 'Memory Tree Note-Taking Method' (which will be shared through a workshop in the future!), I still want to learn about all note-taking methodologies in the world! That's why I invited Ju Pang to share!

✦ Why is Ju Pang's Workshop Worth Attending?

• With diverse real-world life experience spanning political public relations, insurance, land development, and farm management.
• At 50, entered online education, promoted from student to Fandeng Experience Camp class director within 3 months, serving over 500 students.
• Consistently managing 100+ learning communities, weekly online book discussions and learning methods, continuous sharing for 3 years without interruption.
• Updated Xiaohongshu daily for over 460 days, continuously producing learning content, deeply trusted by readers.
• Created the CLAY system, grown from someone with communication difficulties to an online storyteller, successfully converting learning into practical output.

🎉 Heptabase AI is here!

Previously, Heptabase's AI only allowed Podcast and YouTube to generate summary cards through the 'Insights' feature, but now the latest AI Chat function has appeared!! For details, check Heptabase Update Information。

I shared how to use this feature on Day 7 of my workshop 'Get Started with Heptabase in 7 Days! Build Your Knowledge Management System from Zero'! This workshop has been quietly conducting 'secret internal testing' in the Lifelong Growth LINE community! Many Xiaochang fans completed the seven-day assignments, giving me many optimization suggestions and feedback, I'm truly moved,When the internal testing is complete, I will definitely notify you via email, don't worry!

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💭 Didn't Expect the '7-Day Free Workshop' to Require More Engineering Than Imagined

For this workshop project, I originally estimated it would take about 4,820 minutes to complete, but it ended up taking 5,685 minutes (not including promotion time afterward), equivalent to about 90 hours @@ So exaggerated, I really spent the whole month on this project haha!

Later I'll host a sharing session specifically about how I created this seven-day workshop, from purpose, conception, philosophy, design, development, launch, to marketing, and finally give everyone my assignment upload system template! Sounds interesting ~~~ Wonder if you'd be interested? (If interested, pleasevote here）

But it was really fun and interesting, I really enjoyed it, especially seeing student feedback like 'This is definitely not something you can see for free!' and 'I'm a beginner, and after following these seven days, I decided to continue using Heptabase.' With this 'spiritual nourishment' of gratitude, everything was worth it!

🧠 Project Uses for GPT

Let me secretly share a ChatGPT tip with you. When creating the workshop, I asked my social media teacher, Coach K, for some techniques, and then

1. I compiled the teacher's suggestions into a PDF file
2. Uploaded the PDF to the 'Workshop' ChatGPT project, naming it 'Coach ○○'s Suggestions'
3. Then, whenever I ask the 'Workshop' project's ChatGPT to write or brainstorm, I always say: 'Please refer to Coach ○○'s Suggestions and help me brainstorm this section'

The advantage is that the project can retrieve this 'Teacher's Suggestions' PDF anytime as reference material to help me get the answers I want! This little trick is quite detailed but really useful, so I wanted to quickly share it with you ~~ Let's use ChatGPT smartly with ChatGPT and coexist with ChatGPT XD

🥳 Sharing Good News

• Attended ITRI's AI NLP course, maybe because I was very serious XD the instructor remembered me and invited me for a lecture collaboration, felt super happy!!!
  　
• Recently someone approached me, wanting to transform my course platform into 'KnowledgeGut Academy', helping teachers upload 'knowledge-based products' to my platform for sale. Actually, this is something I've always wanted to do, and I didn't expect that while thinking about it, someone wanted to collaborate with me! I'll evaluate it carefully ~~
  　
• 7/14 (Monday) In-person Lecture 〈The 'Life Management System' Every Digital Nomad Should Have: Notion x Heptabase Scenario Sharing〉Already full with 50 registrations~ Since it's a free event and I only shared it in the LINE group, it filled up immediately @@ If interested, I'll open an online session for you to participate in the future!
  　
• The workshop project is basically complete. Next, I'll be hosting a 'Collaborative Reading Group', literally meaning everyone takes notes together, but what I want to host is not just reading, but also observing the world. So I'll name it 'Daily Gut Intelligence Agency', where we investigate specific topics and world knowledge together, then discuss and output together (in a shareable format)! I'll ask later if you're interested ~

📣 This Week's Heart-Warming Share

📌 Recently Discovered My Learning Secret

Just immediately apply what you learn to the SOP!!

📌 Thoughts on Book Purchases

Many people debate that they buy books but don't finish reading them, just buying a feeling of growth. Xiaochang wants to share my thoughts on this perspective with you.

💬 One sentence per week #Gut Talk Wisdom

I hope this newsletter helps you learn something, feel more connected to the world, and grow a little!
If you have any feedback, suggestions, thoughts to share, or recommendations for me, please reply to this email. I'll respond to you thoughtfully.

See you next week in "Gut Talk Newsletter" again~ 😘
by KnowledgeGutfounder Xiaochang

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