Tana - Put your notes to work with voice and AI

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.

Hey Olav! It looks really awesome cause team work can define the company boundaries. If teams can work properly, then you'll be able to reach all the goals you set as founder. Hope everyone see the same and wish you all the best here!

Tana is supercharging my productivity. I particularly like the voice to structured output work-flows. Tana is also the hub for managing all my tasks.

Best product in the world. Tana has revolutionised my way of thinking, working, living—well, every aspect of life. Also, the best team and support in the world. Can’t praise them enough. Thank you, guys, for making Tana and enabling us to achieve our best selves more easily. Go, go, go! ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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!

Hey Tana Team. Congratulations on this huge milestone - one of many, I hope. Anyone who has followed me online will know I have tried an inordinate amount of note-taking/PKM apps and, at the same time, posted my fair share of criticism and complaints (and praise, on occasion). But one thing is certain: Tana is one of the most powerful note-taking apps I have tested. The ability to quickly capture information, categorise it without losing context, and retrieve it through powerful queries and searches means you have everything at your fingertips. The possibility of creating a web of information through backlinks, seeing your content in different views or surfacing what you need at the touch of a button is second to none. The recently released mobile apps mean that we can take our notes with us on the go (although there is still quite a bit of work needed to make the mobile experience flawless). On top of it all, the team behind it is incredibly passionate and has great ideas (there are things in Tana that I did not know had even been invented). The ability to work on so many fronts while listening to user feedback, and incorporating this into Tana, is phenomenal. There is no denying that there are a few additional features that I would like to see in Tana, but I would certainly not hold back from recommending it. If you are serious about note-taking, information retention, and, more importantly, retrieval, I would give Tana a shot and see if it can elevate you to the next level. Looking forward to seeing what the Tana team has in store for us next.

Absolutely incredible app - have tried so many consumer and B2B notetaking / workspace tools. To me this is like Notion meets Obsidian with the spirit of Roam Research... programmability/power/plugins, ease-of-use/interface for those powerful features that's much cleaner, ability to-refind and re-visualize information as databases, Kanbans, etc. Most importantly can put in notes anywhere and they flow to where they need to be (never have to remember where I put a note or what "database" it has to go into – just add it wherever and can tag to have it auto-add itself to as many "databases" as you want. Fluid and the only tool I regularly use AI in as part of the tool itself because it's so integrated Congrats on the official launch!