I subscribed the last minute. I used Tana for six months and then stopped earlier this year due to its complexity and my concern over the lack of proper export options. I’ve since moved project and task management to Superlist. However, Tana’s supertags, advanced queries, and filtering are truly unique. I found a lot of inspiration from Maggie Appleton’s showcase. Eventually I decided to financially support the Tana team even though the Tana Core AI features are not very useful to me.
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Thanks for sharing… a good advertisement for Tana and some wonderful thinking into how to configure it.
I’m at the very least going to take some of her ideas into Obsidian… like questions and a daily “what are you thinking about”. That’s a brilliant way of capturing thoughts and occasionally returning to them. At the moment much of my pondering tends to get lost.
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Is anyone else finding it oddly absurd that the only content and “unique ideas” in app influencer apps are ideas about creating and writing about apps? Watching some of the tana influencers is like watching an endless loop of “here are my thoughts about having an app to write my ideas”. Meta-notes, the new wine apparently.
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I often think about the way Andy Matuschak put this problem:
People who write extensively about note-writing rarely have a serious context of use
and
Effective system design requires insights drawn from serious contexts of use
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As an aside, I really enjoy reading Andy Matuschak - both the content and his style of web pages. I thought it was Obsidian Publish at first, but it is clearly not.
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I’m not bothered by writers using these tools, but also, there seem to be a lot of med students, other grad students, lawyers, designers and business managers. It skews decidedly “laptop class” white collar, certainly.
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Tana is live on PH today. Lot of buzz on the Slack group the whole week leading up to the launch.
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