Tana

Hey Product Hunt, I'm Olav, co-founder of Tana! 👋 We're so excited to finally launch! For the past few years, we've been heads down building a workspace to reinvent how humans, teams, and computers work together. 🫠 The Problem Computers were supposed to be bicycles for our minds. Instead, they've become hamster wheels. We're drowning in busywork—context switching between documents, spreadsheets, endless chats, and loads of single-purpose apps. Our information is siloed and stuck, rarely showing up when we need it. Plugging AI into this mess will only make it worse (imagine the notification hell when AI agents join the party across all your different apps). The journey began with a prototype built to scratch our own itch, drawing from decades of experience in tech (including Grim's work on Google Wave for all you OGs out there). The prototype combined a knowledge graph, an outline editor, and Supertags—an innovative feature inspired by Smalltalk (one of the original OOP languages). It was rough, but we had never worked more effectively. ✨ What is Tana Tana is a new kind of workspace that makes interacting with computers flow naturally. The infrastructure is fundamentally different from most other information processing systems, so it might seem a bit foreign at first. These are three of the core pillars of Tana. A Knowledge Graph That Thinks Like You Do Most tools force you to organize information in rigid hierarchies. Tana's knowledge graph mirrors how your brain works—making it easy to connect and reuse information regardless of where it was stored. Mechanisms to connect and proactively resurface information Instead of manually hunting for information, you can set up customizable feeds that bring the information you need, where you need it. These are highly configurable and can use the graph structure to pull contextually relevant information (e.g. show discussion points for this specific meeting or this specific person) Supertags: From Chaos to Structure in Seconds Our most-loved feature turns unstructured information into structured data instantly. Inspired by object-oriented programming, Supertags let you define what type of information something is (e.g. a task, a project, a client, a bug etc). With this, you can build powerful workflows and AI agents that understand your information and know what to do with it. This is the tip of the iceberg. Tana has loads of powerful features, including a smooth outline editor, references to keep information in sync, backlinks to increase discoverability, powerful view options, commands, events, publish webpages, templates, and more. 🚀 How to get started Sign up at https://tana.inc/ for a free 14-day trial of Tana Plus. We recommend you start using Tana to replace your current notetaking and voice memo apps, and layer on additional use cases as you become familiar with Tana. If you want an easy start: Use voice memos to plan your day and capture ideas. If you're interested in the full power of Tana: We highly recommend you join our Slack community with over 20,000 members. They know Tana better than us and are constantly amazing us with the crazy powerful things they build with Tana. Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and questions! 🙏 Special thanks (and much kudos) - A huuuuuuuuuge shout-out to our Tana community of early adopters. We love you and could never have built this without you ❤️

I've been using Tana for almost two years, and over this time more and more of the people around me have wondered where my superpowers came from. When they see Tana in action, they are instantly converted. Tana helps me bring order to chaos. It solved that nagging feeling in the back of my head that I was always forgetting *something*. Now, I simply capture my todos, discussion points, and goals in Tana (either on my laptop, or on-the-go using voice). They get automatically assigned, and pop up in the right context when I need them like magic. When I start any meeting, I am greeted by all the relevant content I could ever want. This is great during a meeting, but even better when you take the time every morning to prepare. I can assure you, if you come prepared, you are ten steps ahead of the curve. And Tana gets you there with minimal effort. My Tana process is super simple: - Every week, I go through all my open tasks and pick the ones I intend to do that week - Every morning, I pick what I want to do that day from my weekly tasks and go through each of my meetings (with the magic related content mentioned above) - Every month, I look at my Tana process and tinker with it. Adding, but mostly removing. Slowly, perfecting it step-by-step I think the last point illustrates the true magic of Tana. It is a shapeshifter. It will be exactly what you want it to be. If you are a tinkerer, it's a dream, but even if that scares you a bit, the amount of community templates and support on their Slack will bring you up to speed. I've tried to capture all I have learned about Tana in a single, free template called Orbital. See it in action here: https://youtu.be/zahSPVAmf_0

I really hope Tana carves out a big market share in this space. Because this space is ripe for disruption!

Tana has been my daily driver for a long while now, and I honestly can't think of using any other productivity tool this consistently for this long. I've been into "linked notes" style note-taking for about 15 years now, and there just isn't anything like Tana around that combines the affordances so effortlessly. Like the magical thing about Tana is that I can just...think, everything just flows out of me and into the app – and I can find it again, use it again, and build in the real world because I know I can trust Tana to have my back. And that was before they started baking AI as deeply into the product as they have now: with AI Chat, AI Commands, and AI Agents...my mind gets blown every day anew at how COOL THIS IS. Like there's zero context switching left – it all comes together in a single app. But, and this is important: Tana isn't just for the super nerdy hypergraphic people who write down everything every day...it provides great affordances to anyone who wants to be more productive – anyone where reading, writing, and thinking are part of the job. Can't tell you how excited for Tana to be accessible to everyone now. 2025 is going to be a good year for productivity!

All the best for the launch @olavkriken & team!

Congrats on the launch of Tana, well done! We're excited to be covering you today.

Wow! Great to see you here, guys! Tana has completely changed my life! I used to be obsessed with structuring thoughts, but I always hit a wall—I needed a space to freely play with ideas and connections. traditional note-taking apps added complexity instead of helping me think. Now, with Tana, I just map my brain, and I’m moving 5X faster in learning and building new things. Massive thanks to the @Tana team! 🔥 My main page in Tana https://drive.google.com/file/d/...