Tana

Kind of reminds me a little bit of Things 3 with some fancy new features. I'll be giving it a try... very picky about the kinds of tools I use for task management but the idea that managing the tens of things I have to track for myself every day can be less of a chore is very intriguing.

Tarjei (one of the Tana founders) here with simple a pro-tip: Reusable Checklists! With SuperTags, you can quickly create checklists for ANYTHING - employee onboardings, hiking trips, on-call incidents and so much more. In fact, for our launch today, we created a #launch checklist that all team members uses to make sure we are all aligned and make sure our launch is successful.

Tana is a powerful tool that combines the best features of note-taking, outlining, and database applications. It uses a unique approach centered around nodes, which are nimble units of thought that can be easily assigned metadata and configured to display specific content. Everything in Tana is a node, which simplifies the structure of the application and makes it very flexible. Tana's outlining capabilities are exceptional, making it easy to organize thoughts in a bulleted list. The application's supertags feature is particularly noteworthy, allowing users to create templates for nodes that can be used in multiple places. This enables users to easily track information, and create searchable databases. Tana’s system is built to allow users to create their own systems for tasks, personal knowledge management, projects, and more. Tana is designed to minimize friction, allowing users to capture ideas without interrupting the flow of thought. It is ideal for people who want to move between free-flowing thoughts, collaboration, and structured data. The user interface is clean, calm, and aesthetically pleasing, further enhancing the user experience. The Tana community is friendly, knowledgeable, and responsive. The leadership is actively involved, listening to user feedback and working to improve the application. Tana is rapidly evolving, with new features being added regularly. Tana’s flexible tools allow users to build custom workflows without requiring programming expertise. The AI integration amplifies the ability of those systems by processing links and auto-tagging. The application is useful for both personal and professional use, allowing users to merge their worlds into one cohesive graph. It is used by builders and managers in tech teams. Jean Pierre

I've genuinely enjoyed using Tana quite a bit (switched over from Workflowy). I wanted a tool that marries Workflowy's outliner simplicity with Notion's structure + some tools like tagging, dates, etc. Tana does this arguably complex orchestration fairly well. I hope they can improve their iOS/Android apps though (it's *maddening* to not be able to edit on mobile / add stuff easily). Best wishes to the Tana team!

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! 🚀

Already a huge fan of Supertags, awesome work Tana team! 🔥🤩

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.