Tana?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 5, 2023 at 08:04 PM

I used Tana for a few days. I certainly didn’t delve into all its rich features, but through my experience I would agree with what @exatty95 said. And I would add this:

I found that Tana is a lot like Notion… not in its user interface, but in the fact that to get anything out of it, you need to spend time setting it up to meet your needs. That primarily involves the supertags. That’s why I’ve shied away from Tana. I just don’t want to spend that much time fidgeting with my “setup.” As an aside, I get a kick out of the Notion subReddit, where there are so many contributors writing things like, “I finally got my [name of project] page where I want it.” Don’t get me wrong, I can understand the joy of getting these tools to work perfectly for you, but I’ve learned that is a rabbit hole for me.

But Tana does have some other cool features. For instance, it is simple to flip an uncompleted task from today to some other day. So I believe Tana is very thoughtfully designed.

I hope this is useful.

Steve

Dr Andus wrote:
Any more thoughts on Tana?
> >There appears to be a bit of a learning curve involved (it looks like
>I’ll need to watch a few hours of videos to understand and appreciate
>some features, so I’m just wondering if it’s worth sinking time into
>it).
> >I’m both a Roam and WorkFlowy user, which seem to be the two main
>competitors they are targeting (judging from the imports they’ve set
>up).
> >It’s like there is quite a serious and big team behind Tana, it looks
>like a major effort, seems much bigger than Roam or WorkFlowy when they
>started out (?):
> >https://tana.inc/company
> >I thought these sort of services were quite niche, even within the world
>of productivity software, so it’s curious to see the amount of effort
>put into this, it looks like they are anticipating a big market for
>this?