Tana: The Ultimate Note-Taking App — A Review of its Key Features and Innovations

Axton
9 min readJan 15, 2023
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I tried Tana for 12 days, and my impression is fantastic. Tana’s homepage said that you could cancel half of the software subscriptions. That’s true. At least I don’t have to worry about Roam, Notion, Obsidian, LogSeq, etc. Which one to choose? If the most significant innovation of note-taking software in the past two years is Roam’s double chain, then Tana’s Supertag can be regarded as another major innovation.

What is Tana? To put it simply, it is Workflowy + Roam + Notion, which integrates the core features of these three major software, Workflowy’s outline, Roam’s double chain and Notion’s database, Tana’s two significant features, unity and flexibility, truly achieve the note-taking software Quick notes and stress-free organization.

Today I will tell you about his three highlights and the current problems. At the end of the article, I made a very simple data management Supertag to share with you for free (Chinese). It is used for beginners to understand Supertag and inheritance.

Standard configuration of mainstream note-taking software

First, Tana has the standard configuration of the current mainstream note-taking software, such as daily records; click Today or press the shortcut key to…

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