Tana
Put your notes to work with voice and AI
4.8•55 reviews•3.3K followers
Put your notes to work with voice and AI
4.8•55 reviews•3.3K followers
3.3K followers
3.3K followers
I’ve spent a decade searching for the note-taking tool that would let me think instead of organize. I’m talking Evernote, Roam, Notion, Obsidian - the full pilgrimage. When nothing fit, I did what any systems-obsessed founder would do: I vibe-coded my own Frankenmonster out of Airtable, n8n workflows, and a React Native app. I was spending more time on “work about the work” - filing, maintaining, debugging - than on the actual ideas I was supposedly capturing. The tool became the project.
Tana broke that cycle. The supertag system means I capture ideas without deciding upfront where they “go” - they just become what they are (a task, a person, a project) and surface where I need them. Live searches pull context to me instead of me hunting for it. I’m not maintaining a system anymore; I’m working inside one that maintains itself. For the first time in years, my note-taking tool is invisible in the best way - it gets out of my way so I can actually think.
If you’re someone who’s tried everything, built your own hacky solutions, and still feels like you’re pushing a boulder uphill just to organize your brain - Tana is worth the learning curve. It’s not simple. But it’s the right kind of complex: powerful primitives that compound, not features that bloat.
Tana is a fantastic space to create a knowledge graph in the way that makes most sense for you. The only caveat is the learning curve and some missing QoL features.
Lack of Rest API is a huge bummer alongside some other QoL features like notifications, integrated task management, and general UI quirks.
Tana is the only product that delivers on: using node objects for object-oriented knowledge graph, custom commands with node buttons, somewhat of an automation experience, usable mobile experience.
Very accurate
Templates? Templates are lacking but the ability for complex workflows is definitely there.
Mostly, yes
Also with a working setup in real workflow every day is like using a new great tool because I always discover new ways to be more impressed.
Mobile apps could be much better. As user there is always the switch between the web-app in the mobile browser and the native app with limited functions.
The ai integration is a real gamechanger. Also the graph database with perfect integrated „supertags“. That is really really matching my kind of thinking.
It is flexible as fuck. I‘m just considering if it is too flexible so that I get stuck in possibilities.
very well
Capturing ist great, reviewing a bit clumsy
There are so many note-talking apps. This the one with a totally different philosophy and execution. Runs at the speed of your thought. It can be whatever you want it to be, from a digital bullet journal to a fully fledged AI workflow app. So hard to explain, so intuitive to use.
Despite the steep learning curve, at its simplest for can be used out of the box.
Never had a problem though my knowledge graph might not be too large.
They're incredibly robust and flexible. A combination very hard to achieve.
Very customisable and great looking.
The very best meeting transcripts, incredible discoverabilty via supertags, and deeply customizable. It's the perfect notes tool for work.
Mobile app could be better.
I've used Obsidian for years. It's a superb PKM but for work notes the discoverabilty via Bases lags behind Tama


