Tana

Put your notes to work with voice and AI

4.8•55 reviews•

3.4K followers

Put your notes to work with voice and AI

4.8•55 reviews•

3.4K followers

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AI notetakers

An AI-native workspace for tech-savvy professionals who want to stay on top of everything—without the busywork. Tana helps you connect and organize information so you get it where you need it, in a super flexible format. Now with full offline support!

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Tana

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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 ❤️

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1yr ago

@olavkriken LET'S GOOOOO OLAV, 2025 is going to be LIT AF. And thank you so much and the whole team for the incredible work you've done...Tana is amazing.

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@masump Thanks Masum, can't wait to get your feedback! If you want to learn more, I suggest joining our awesome community 🙏

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@cortexfutura Thanks Lukas, and thanks for being part of our journey from the start 🙏

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@masump Awesome. Really looking forward to hearing what you think about Tana!

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1yr ago

Inbox AI

@olavkriken Let's show everyone what humanity can do when we take away barriers that hold us back from doing great work. Let 2025 be the year of focus and agency. Tana go!

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1yr ago

Inbox AI

🔌 Plugged in

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

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1yr ago

@dreetje I love seeing what you are doing with Tana Andre! It always gives me inspiration for my own workflows.

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@dreetje Andre! Your help and your insights have been out of this world. I particularly love how you've developed such a thoughtful, iterative approach to using Tana. Your simple three-step process (weekly review, daily planning, monthly refinement) showcases how simple yet powerful a setup can be. Thank you for being an essential part of our journey. Users like you make all the hard work worthwhile.

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1yr ago

Inbox AI

@olavkriken We are just getting started ;)

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@dreetje You're such an inspiration, Andre! Your process is super practical and well thought out. Thanks for sharing and for linking the template!

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@dreetje Thank you for being such a passionate advocate for Tana. The way you've helped others discover and understand the platform, your contributions to the community, and your constant feedback have been invaluable. You're not just using Tana; you're helping us make it better for everyone. Thank you for being an essential part of our journey. Users like you make all the hard work worthwhile.

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1yr ago

😹 LOL

I'd been struggling finding a note-taking app for me for a long time, and randomly overheard a conversation of someone talking about a small startup called Tana on the train in to Oslo one morning. I joined the community later that day, and by the weekend I had watched at least 10 videos on Tana, and bought an online course for an application for the first time in my life. It was the first time I've felt that an application really resonated with how I want to capture information. Tana has since developed into a powerful tool for me in my professional career - I'm not a PKM guru or feel the need to take notes for my daily life, but I genuinely believe that if you are a working professional and not using Tana you might be doing yourself a disservice. More so if you work with specific accounts and have routine contact with your customers. For me - it was all about tasks and to-dos, which Tana does like no other. Tana will grow with you - and I spend a good chunk of time thinking of how I can do things differently. But once you get the SuperTags set up, its so intuitive, and I know I have barely scratched the surface. Looking forward to seeing what's in store for the future - and big congratulations to the team!

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@martin_nordli_mathisen That is so great to hear Martin! Overhearing-on-train is a super cool story of you finding out about us. It's really exciting to be building tools that people love and use in their life in such a way. ^_^

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@martin_nordli_mathisen Thanks for a thoughtful review 🫶 I also stumbled across Tana back in the day and then it slowly took over my knowledge work from client management to long-form writing! This team (which I feel incredibly grateful to be a part of) is going to the MOON!

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1yr ago

@odinu I remember distinctly they said it was "a Norwegian version of Notion" and looking back that was massively underselling Tana's capabilites!

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1yr ago

@martin_nordli_mathisen what a truly interesting way to hear about Tana! Love that story. I agree - any knowledge worker would be crazy not to be using Tana

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

Wow @martin_nordli_mathisen, thanks for sharing the story and thanks for your support!

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1yr ago

💎 Pixel perfection

TL;DR — Believe the hype: Tana is a game-changer. The future is now, strap in. ——— “The great river of Tana... the Tana River... Tana... where your thoughts can flow like water...” this was the pitch 2+ years ago when I stumbled upon the alpha version of this app and it's mission to ‘reinvent how humans and teams and machines work together...’ yada yada yada... “Yet another Workflowy clone...” I smugly thought to myself as I joined the Slack group and started tinkering around in the app, thinking to myself that at that point I had seen it all... Boy was I wrong... 😏 For 10 years I would come to Product Hunt and try out every hot new outliner or note-taking app that hit the launch page to see if they could pull me away from Workflowy... And after every single app (I tried them ALL), I returned to Workflowy — until Tana. 💥 The first thing Tana did was figure out something no other outliner had managed to figure out, and they call them SUPERTAGS — it's the functional marriage of a relational database and an infinite outliner — and it's incredible. Said another way, it's like if Airtable and Workflowy had a baby, it'd be Tana. 🤯 Think of supertags as merely the title of a table in a database, and their related fields as merely the columns (or attributes) that you'd expect to find in the table. Now imagine: every sentence, every “node,” can become a record in this table (the rows), simply by adding a hashtag, a supertag — “John Doe #person” — that's it. John Doe is in the person table. It's so frictionless you feel like your computer is made of melted butter. 🧈 Despite Tana being an outliner at it's core, you don't need to worry about the “tree,” or hierarchy, or organization at all, because of the next fundamental innovation Tana brings: SEARCH NODES. Search nodes allow you to build emergent structures that evolve as your needs change, whereby you can define an organization structure that is always up-to-date. A list of all #person nodes that updates on the fly, regardless of where in your graph you add that node... More melted butter. 🧈 🧈 And that would be enough on its own, but Tana also makes AI a first class citizen. You'll find integrations with AI at the core of the UX, thoughtfully integrated in ways that demonstrate the team is not just catching the AI hype wave, they're actually the force behind it — bringing easy-to-use and easy-to-build tools into the experience that finally start to give weight to the promise of AI. 🧈 🧈 🧈 Then there's the entire world of COMMANDS that also exist within Tana, which allows you to program all types of unique ways to interact with your data right down to the field level, allowing you to templatize your entire workflow and build entire apps that function around any concept or supertag. IE: fill in the director and cinematographer's names to a #movie when I add it, or a research a cafe #recommendation that a #person shares with me... all automatically. 🧈 🧈 🧈 🧈 Indeed though, one of the most delightful things about using Tana in alpha and beta these past two years has been the TEAM. Software is made by humans, and these humans are fantastic. The team is thoughtful, critical, humble, inquisitive, and of course very talented. They truly do listen to the community, not just in terms of direction and roadmap, but to the little things. They're not afraid to take critical feedback and grow with it. They're not against doing the hard thing (again and again) until they get it right. They admit when they miss the mark and they overachieve when they return to hit it. 👯 And finally, the COMMUNITY surrounding this app is thriving. Active daily. Fired up about helping others succeed. Nonjudgemental. Supportive of any arrangement of letters you show up identifying as. Came out in masse to support the launch. And. And... We all can't wait to meet YOU, dear Product Hunter, and answer all of your questions, and get you as excited about Tana as we all are! 👋 Tana is precisely 361 km ahead of the pack right now. It's true: Tana IS reinventing how humans, teams, and computers work together. And it's clear the team is not slowing down this year, so LFG! 🚀

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

Wow, @ready! Thank you for an awesome, in-depth review of Tana! 🫶 You're one of the most valuable voices in the Tana community, and it shows here as well. We're humbled and grateful 🎉

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

C'MON @ready! You're stealing our thunder with such an AMAZING post! Next time we'll ask you to write our product description. This is *lit* (for some reason my emojis won't show..). Thank you for bringing so much energy into our community (and keeping us on our toes!!) We so appreciate you Ready! So...are you read? (see what I did there??)

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1yr ago

@ready Agreed! there's no set of smarter fundamentals anywhere else in this segment...

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

Yes @ready! Your journey with Tana beautifully captures what we're building, and your deep understanding of our vision and ability to explain it so vividly helps others see the possibilities. And none can leave feedback the way you do, through, always with the users best in mind. Oh. And the merch. Even my kids where your pins 🙏

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1yr ago

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/...

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1yr ago

Tana

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@tana @vladimir_levitin Thank you for the support and for sharing your main page in Tana! Super cool to see how different people set up Tana for their specific thoughts and workflows 🤩

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1yr ago

@vladimir_levitin so cool to see your main page. The speed of doing everything in Tana is incredible

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1yr ago

Tana

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Awesome screenshot @orenlevitin - thanks for sharing!

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1yr ago

@Tana @orenlevitin truly inspiring

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1yr ago

@tarjeiv @hilde_dybdahl_johannessen just one critical request — please improve sharing feature.

I want to share my thought frameworks with friends and investors, but the current process is too cumbersome:

• Download HTML

• Upload to Framer

• Polish styles

It’s not that long, but I can’t keep doing it after every update. On the other hand it would be easy for you. The current public pages are awful—they don’t reflect the hierarchy of the structure I’m creating, which undermines the whole idea of Tana.

This is a critical point that stops me from aggressive promoting of Tana😅

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1yr ago

I love this product and I love this team. I found Tana in the early days of beta when notebooks had failed me, OneNote failed me, Evernote failed me, Notion failed me, Roam failed me... you know what I mean. I couldn't recall anything. My information space was vast and these tools were too flat to manage what I was putting in. Tana's supertags collected my information my way. Contextually relevant searches placed this information where and when I need it. I never drop out of my flow. Meetings magically appear from my calendar, tagged how I want them to be tagged. I drop tasks in the workflow of a meeting (for example) and retrieve them in the context that I can best get them done. In a project page, in a weekly review, when I have 5 minutes spare. Now with native AI, I auto transcribe meetings, send voice notes to my tana to magically collect where I need them, build agent based tools, designed to work for me with the information that gathers around me. And why do I love the team? I've never seen such a perfectly executed community. I feel like this product is built for us.

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@phil_morle1 Phil, it’s always inspiring to hear your take on Tana—you’ve been with us from the start, and your insights always remind me why we’re building this. Can’t wait to hear you speak at the live event later. Grateful to have you as part of this journey—you’re a true OG in every sense!

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1yr ago

Tana

Maker

@phil_morle1 - we are super proud to have you part of this amazing journey to reinvent how humans, teams, and computers work together. Internet OG!

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1yr ago

@phil_morle1 there is something that truly feels like magic in Tana. I just couldn’t imagine using anything else now. The flow I get everyday is just beyond

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1yr ago

Taskade AI Mobile: Supercharge Workflows

supertags are one of the most interesting ideas in the note-taking space. the idea that your notes arent just text but typed objects with properties changes what you can do with them downstream.

the question every structured-note tool faces is: how much structure is too much? Roam went heavy on backlinks. Notion went heavy on databases. Tana is betting on types and properties.

curious how the AI integration handles the structured data. if agents can reason over typed objects (not just search text), thats a fundamentally different capability than what most note tools offer.

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1mo ago

Local API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Tana!

Hey Product Hunt
We just shipped something we ve wanted to build for a long time: a local API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration for Tana.
The short version:
AI tools like Claude Code can now read, reason over, and write back to your actual Tana workspace including structured notes, outlines, prompts, and relationships instead of working on pasted text or one-off prompts.
Why we built this
Most AI workflows today look like this:

Copy something out of your notes
Paste it into a chat or terminal
Lose context
Start over next time

That s not how real work compounds.
Tana is designed as a permanent, structured thinking system. With the new API + MCP, AI tools can finally work inside that system instead of around it.
What this unlocks
A simple example we re excited about:

Capture a voice memo in Tana
Shape it into an outline using the editor
Let Claude Code turn that structured note into a slide deck

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1yr ago

How do you explain Tana to others?

When speaking to people who have never heard about Tana, how do you explain what it is? I am curious! Personally, I have to vet their current tool use thoroughly before I know how to talk about it.

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4mo ago

Mobile update time!

We just shipped something for mobile that has a BIG impact on capture speed, and I'm super excited to see your new mobile workflows!

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Put your notes to work with voice and AI

Put your notes to work with voice and AI

Forum Threads

Local API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Tana!

How do you explain Tana to others?

Mobile update time!

Forum Threads

Local API and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Tana!

How do you explain Tana to others?

Mobile update time!

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