Folks often think of Tana as having a "steep learning curve." And I get where that comes from—it's flexible and powerful, so there are a lot of different ways to set up workflows. But there's a specific relationship between supertags, fields, and searches that is simple to learn that I consider my fundamental Tana LEGO® block.
It works like this. If I want to see how two things relate—say, books and authors—I first create supertags for both. Then within the #book supertag I create a field called "Author" that draws its options from instances of the #author supertag. And in the #author supertag, I create a search called Books that finds all books by whatever author you're looking at.
It sets up something like this:
A Tale of Two Cities #book - Author:: Charles Dickens #author and Charles Dickens #author - Books by this Author (<- search) - A Tale of Two Cities #book (<- search result) - David Copperfield #book (<- search result) The syntax of the search inside the #author supertag is - #book - Author:: PARENT As in, find all books where the author is whatever author you're currently looking at.
This pattern is powerful, because its how I connect tasks to projects (Project field in #task, Tasks search in #project), or quotes to sources (Source field in #quote, Quotes search in #source), or discussion points to people (Person field in #discussion point, Topics to Discuss search in #person), etc.
The pattern is simple to learn, but many complicated-looking dashboards in Tana are little more than just a lot of these simple relationships working together.
I actually have a video coming out on Friday about how to set this up. It will be the culmination of my free Essential Tana Skills YouTube playlist, which you can check out here if you want: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGL797U3UcfO2bQm5tzJSny62qdVpj5bi Are there any simple Tana workflows—or even more detailed ones—that are especially valuable for you?
I feel like Product Hunt is getting that Reddit vibe when it comes to Forums.
After waking up, the new "formatting structure" surprised me.
There are 2 main changes:
1) New text editor for New thread
2) New text editor when contributing comments
This means that you can use , and combine them.
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It seems like when I create a new project, it isn't shared to anyone by default. Can I change these default sharing permissions so that new projects are shared to a group (or the entire company?)
I checked in the docs
Hi Product Hunters,
I'm Mohammed Imtiyaz, co-founder at Curatora.io
We're building a tool that helps content creators and marketers to find fresh, trending content ideas via smart curation- not just generic Al suggestions.
We’re still in the development phase and want to ensure we’re solving the right problems. I'd love to learn about your content creation process and challenges.
Would you be open to a quick chat?
P.S: Lets connect over LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imtiyazmohammed/
I am at the stage when I want to formally move my business to a foreign country (for example, to take advantage of better tax conditions, fees, etc.).
Which country offers the easiest way to start a business, ideally to set up everything electronically (without unnecessary bureaucracy, where they ask you to show up physically. 🥲 – It feels like a pain in Europe)
The more information (and advantages), the better.
I thought I wanted to start a podcast with my friends, turns out I just wanted to use the format to stay in touch.
I travel quite a bit so I have friends in many timezones. Some of us attempted to start a podcast by each recording an audio clips and stitching them together into an episode. We quickly realized we didn't want the discussions to be fully public, however, the format of communicating through these audio podcast-like messages was a game changer.
This is what lead to the development of Roads Audio.
So have you ever wanted to start a podcast? What was that experience like?
I used to be a startup scout, and one of my sources of deal flow was actually the Product Hunt leaderboard. For fun, I’m going to pick the top five products I find most interesting that launched in the last week from a scout POV. I’ll try to veer away from the top products each day to keep things interesting.