Tana - Put your notes to work with voice and AI

As a long-term user of Workflowy I switched from Workflowy to Tana. Tana feels like Workflwoy on steroids combining an outliner with the power of Notion. In addtion modeling capabilities like multiple inheritance and 'dynamic' data types allows building custom knowledge management and workflowy systems. The only missing piece is better mobile supoort (and some minor UI glitches) - but so far the best system for building systems of systems!

I've been using Tana for nearly 2 years now and absolutely love it! It is my central hub for curating writing content and strategic project management. Who needs a super power when you can have a super tool?! It keeps me functioning on a high level getting stuff done without wasting time trying to create a fancy system. The flexibility of Tana is such that it grows as my needs have evolved.

Tana is a revolutionary tool in the way it approaches notetaking and the idea of creating dynamic systems. It can be as a powerful as you want, the potential is actually limitless. I'm eager to see how it develops and grows in the future to come. All the best to the team ✨

Tana is the best (and only) workspace I've found that truly represents how my brain naturally stores and relates information. Connections happen naturally, as they do in my mind. As @olavkriken said, Tana thinks like you do. Unfortunately I feel like every PKM/productivity tool makes this promise, so it's easy to write off. But in this case, at least for me, it is actually true: I've been using Tana for over 2 years, and although I've hopped around quite a bit (shiny objects beguile us all), I *always* return to Tana wondering why other frameworks just don't feel right. I have extensively used Notion, Obsidian, Roam, Logseq etc. -- these are great tools with great features, but fundamentally I find that the frameworks are always too rigid. Ultimately, every bit of information is formally confined to a page or a database. While links/backlinks/relations are great, I always feel it takes effort to set up these connections, or that there's some friction in the way. One Tana caveat is that some features on their roadmap are still maturing (new users may find this frustrating, but the core product is flawless). The flipside is that the team is phenomenal, prolific, honest about their roadmap, and very keyed into their fantastic user community. At this point, Tana is indispensable to me and I use it every day.

Hey @olavkriken, Your product has actually changed my life. Where I muddled through with other note-taking apps, Tana has actually allowed me to take control of my business, writing and note-taking. It's a fantastic product! All the very best and many thanks!

Tana is my goto app for Notetaking! Could not live without it! With Tana I can manage all my meeting/project/coaching notes! Kudos for the team! #kudos

In a sea of productivity tools, Tana stands out. It’s both powerful enough to help you track, study, process, and produce whatever you want to and it’s flexible enough for you to do it the way you think and do.

Tana has changed how I work. I've tried so many apps in this space including Notion, Agenda, Obsidian, Roam Research, Craft, Bear, Ulysses, Day One, and others. I've tried TODO apps like Things 3, Todoist, and several others. I've tried analog approaches. The same thing happens with them all, I get uber excited, go nuts for two weeks, and then slowly stop using the app until I get overwhelmed and try the next one. This hasn't happened with Tana. I've been using Tana since February 1st, 2023. That's the longest run of any app I've ever used. What clicked for me was the simplicity of the interface. It's just so simple and yet so powerful. Search nodes are a game-changer. I track all my goals, monitor areas, manage projects and tasks in Tana. Nothing gets lost and I can find anything and everything with a few keystrokes without ever having to worry when and where I captured that thought or todo. Tana gets out of the way and just lets me work at the speed of thought. As a designer and product leader I couldn't imagine not having Tana as my PKM and productivity tool. 10/10

I've been using Tana on and off for over a year now, and after a few tries, I finally get just how powerful it is. It definitely has a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you can’t live without it. Keep it up, Tana!!!

Tana is the best tool I've used for bottom-up note-taking. With most objects being nodes, I don't have to worry about whether I should convert a note into a document or folder. This allows for a significantly more flexible structure that's great for supporting my thinking. This flexible structure doesn't stop at the inter-node level, as the ability to add not just reference backlinks, but supertag backlinks as well, allows sentences to function like structural frameworks. Further, because of Tana's supertags, I don't have to manually maintain node metadata properties the way I'd have to maintain frontmatter in a document. For anyone who's thinking about giving Tana a shot, but isn't quite sure where to start, I have three main recommendations: 1. Focus on the home node that's created for you automatically. One of the challenges I encountered when I first started using Tana was knowing where my nodes lived, so having some kind of hub to serve as a common starting point helped ground me. 2. Consider favoring supertags that declare types of nodes over ones that declare types of notes. This approach allows me to get away with only using a few tags to categorize my nodes. If you're not sure which node types to declare, a few of my favorites are #pro, #con, #update, #uncertainty, and #material. The first two make it easy to do some casual sentiment analysis of notes (like a note vibe check). The #update tag is great for little ad-hoc progress reports. #uncertainty is for questions or information I'm not sure is correct. This tag extends my #task tag, which allows me to check off information that I have become certain of; however, I like leaving the uncertainty tags to maintain a record of gaps in my knowledge that have since been filled. #material is a generic "object" tag for practically everything from concepts to video games. This tag is useful for declaring which node is the true representation of something. For instance, if you have five nodes that all say "The Office", but only one that has the material tag, you'll know which one to link to if you're trying to reference that show. As an aside, I tend to not assign more than one tag to a node, except for when the second tag is a #task tag. I don't actually manage my tasks in Tana, but use the task tag for nodes that contain information related to tasks in my todo list. 3. Beware of unnecessarily linking to a high-level topical node just because you typed its name (e.g., "#update I've been working on my [[productivity]] systems as of late."). I often backlinked this way while using Obsidian and it resulted in a rat's nest of references that didn't give me a better sense of my understanding of a topic. In many cases, I can just create a search node that searches for all mentions of a topic (e.g., "productivity") if I need this kind of information. Bonus Tip: I've enjoyed using Tana to create outline representations of things I'm trying to make sense of, such as a character's move set in Tekken 8 or the homework questions in a programming assignment. I can reference components of these outlines to indicate which specific part of the reference material I'm referring to. A common note-taking tip I've heard over the years is to take notes in your own words, but I've found that starting with this advice just results in me becoming a thesaurus without actually gaining a better understanding of whatever it is that I'm studying. However, refactoring source material actually tends to help me better understand what I'm studying by giving me a greater sense of ownership over it, as one typically feels after building anything themself. Obscure, Miscellaneous Usage Tips - Shift Click: Get an in-line card displaying information contained within node referenced - Command Option Down: Expand Node without exposing any preexisting children (especially useful for nodes with a lot of children) - Command C (with cursor in a field header) -> Command V within a new field: To copy a preexisting field to a different supertag (for avoiding field redundancy)