An AI-native workspace for tech-savvy professionals who want to stay on top of everything—without the busywork. Tana helps you connect and organize information so you get it where you need it, in a super flexible format.
Hey Product Hunt, I'm Olav, co-founder of Tana! 👋
We're so excited to finally launch! For the past few years, we've been heads down building a workspace to reinvent how humans, teams, and computers work together.
🫠 The Problem
Computers were supposed to be bicycles for our minds. Instead, they've become hamster wheels. We're drowning in busywork—context switching between documents, spreadsheets, endless chats, and loads of single-purpose apps. Our information is siloed and stuck, rarely showing up when we need it. Plugging AI into this mess will only make it worse (imagine the notification hell when AI agents join the party across all your different apps).
The journey began with a prototype built to scratch our own itch, drawing from decades of experience in tech (including Grim's work on Google Wave for all you OGs out there). The prototype combined a knowledge graph, an outline editor, and Supertags—an innovative feature inspired by Smalltalk (one of the original OOP languages). It was rough, but we had never worked more effectively.
✨ What is Tana
Tana is a new kind of workspace that makes interacting with computers flow naturally. The infrastructure is fundamentally different from most other information processing systems, so it might seem a bit foreign at first. These are three of the core pillars of Tana.
A Knowledge Graph That Thinks Like You Do
Most tools force you to organize information in rigid hierarchies. Tana's knowledge graph mirrors how your brain works—making it easy to connect and reuse information regardless of where it was stored.
Mechanisms to connect and proactively resurface information
Instead of manually hunting for information, you can set up customizable feeds that bring the information you need, where you need it. These are highly configurable and can use the graph structure to pull contextually relevant information (e.g. show discussion points for this specific meeting or this specific person)
Supertags: From Chaos to Structure in Seconds
Our most-loved feature turns unstructured information into structured data instantly. Inspired by object-oriented programming, Supertags let you define what type of information something is (e.g. a task, a project, a client, a bug etc). With this, you can build powerful workflows and AI agents that understand your information and know what to do with it.
This is the tip of the iceberg. Tana has loads of powerful features, including a smooth outline editor, references to keep information in sync, backlinks to increase discoverability, powerful view options, commands, events, publish webpages, templates, and more.
🚀 How to get started
Sign up at https://tana.inc/ for a free 14-day trial of Tana Plus. We recommend you start using Tana to replace your current notetaking and voice memo apps, and layer on additional use cases as you become familiar with Tana.
If you want an easy start: Use voice memos to plan your day and capture ideas.
If you're interested in the full power of Tana: We highly recommend you join our Slack community with over 20,000 members. They know Tana better than us and are constantly amazing us with the crazy powerful things they build with Tana.
Would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and questions! 🙏
Special thanks (and much kudos) - A huuuuuuuuuge shout-out to our Tana community of early adopters. We love you and could never have built this without you ❤️
Yeah....A unique and surprising offer that only allowed free trial membership when customers provided their credit card details first. Well you guys probable really confident in your product if asking payment information before trial access. Anyway good luck
Hi team! Excited about the launch. @olavkriken | Just a quick heads up that your "Live On Product Hung" link on your website is directing to www.producthunt.com instead of your launch. I couldn't get here from the website & had to manually look at it. Thought you'd want to know to get more traffic here :)
I've tried it and totally fell in love with it. I've been using it as my main note-taking system as a solopreneur, and it has delivered well. Though there are still many improvements needed, I have high hopes for the team. They’re amazing at assisting you and really listen to your feedback.
@Olav Sindre Kriken Congratulations on the launch of Tana! As a freelance QA specialist, I'm impressed with your innovative approach to workspace management. I help startups like yours enhance product quality, accelerate release cycles, and boost overall efficiency through automated UI and API testing. Would love to discuss how I can help Tana achieve its full potential!.
Most of us founders are creative thinkers. Lots of ideas get lost because they appear at the most weirdest of moments. This should help gather everything, organise them and make it accessible when required. I can't wait to to try this. I shall share a review soon. All the best on your launch.
@olavkriken
Just WoW! Tana looks like a fresh take on organizing and working with information. Managing scattered details across different tools is a constant struggle, and the idea of a knowledge graph that actually adapts to the way we think is refreshing.
Supertags turning unstructured notes into structured, actionable data is something I didn’t realize I needed until now.
Excited to see how this reshapes workflows. Sending wins to the team :)
Congrats on the launch! Turning an idea into a live product is a huge milestone.
Wishing you strong engagement, valuable feedback, and well-deserved success!
Following you from the start. I like Tana soo much! Tana is a not a tool for me, it's a journey inside my mind trying to be better at organizing my work and my thoughts. I learned a lot from other users ideas. Your community is an incredible gift that comes with Tana! I tend to think, that disruptive ideas gather great people!
Keep the good work, I trust you !
I recommend Tana for all the professionals who want to organize their notes with AI and voice commands! It is the ideal working environment for those who value flexibility and efficiency. Tana helps you connect and organize information so that it's always at your fingertips, without too much fuss.
I was a Notion user for 3–4 years, both as a student and for work. When I was preparing for exams, I tried using Notion to drive my learning. But I always felt that the apps' limitations affected my learning. Blocks were flexible but lacked structure. Tables gave structure but needed endless workarounds and didn’t work well with longer content. There had to be a better way.
I then came across an article on Interstitial Journaling by Cortex Futura, which led me to explore outliner-based tools like Roam Research. It immediately solved some of Notion’s shortcomings, but it still wasn’t the right fit—I needed something with a proper database structure.
Then I found Tana. Cortex Futura’s videos convinced me right away, and once I got the invite, there was no looking back.
Tana has everything. The daily outliner makes capturing thoughts effortless, Supertags are on another level—they’re basically apps in themselves. Any piece of content is instantly accessible, Commands are ridiculously powerful, and Tana AI takes it even further. Being able to chat with my own content and combine it with Commands has completely changed how I learn and retain information.
It’s been two years now, and Tana has been a game-changer. It helped me get the academic results I needed, and it will continue to drive my learning journey.
Thrilled to see Tana launch—it truly deserves all the love! 🚀
Tana is the best tool I've used for bottom-up note-taking. With most objects being nodes, I don't have to worry about whether I should convert a note into a document or folder. This allows for a significantly more flexible structure that's great for supporting my thinking. This flexible structure doesn't stop at the inter-node level, as the ability to add not just reference backlinks, but supertag backlinks as well, allows sentences to function like structural frameworks. Further, because of Tana's supertags, I don't have to manually maintain node metadata properties the way I'd have to maintain frontmatter in a document.
For anyone who's thinking about giving Tana a shot, but isn't quite sure where to start, I have three main recommendations:
1. Focus on the home node that's created for you automatically. One of the challenges I encountered when I first started using Tana was knowing where my nodes lived, so having some kind of hub to serve as a common starting point helped ground me.
2. Consider favoring supertags that declare types of nodes over ones that declare types of notes. This approach allows me to get away with only using a few tags to categorize my nodes. If you're not sure which node types to declare, a few of my favorites are #pro, #con, #update, #uncertainty, and #material. The first two make it easy to do some casual sentiment analysis of notes (like a note vibe check). The #update tag is great for little ad-hoc progress reports. #uncertainty is for questions or information I'm not sure is correct. This tag extends my #task tag, which allows me to check off information that I have become certain of; however, I like leaving the uncertainty tags to maintain a record of gaps in my knowledge that have since been filled. #material is a generic "object" tag for practically everything from concepts to video games. This tag is useful for declaring which node is the true representation of something. For instance, if you have five nodes that all say "The Office", but only one that has the material tag, you'll know which one to link to if you're trying to reference that show. As an aside, I tend to not assign more than one tag to a node, except for when the second tag is a #task tag. I don't actually manage my tasks in Tana, but use the task tag for nodes that contain information related to tasks in my todo list.
3. Beware of unnecessarily linking to a high-level topical node just because you typed its name (e.g., "#update I've been working on my [[productivity]] systems as of late."). I often backlinked this way while using Obsidian and it resulted in a rat's nest of references that didn't give me a better sense of my understanding of a topic. In many cases, I can just create a search node that searches for all mentions of a topic (e.g., "productivity") if I need this kind of information.
Bonus Tip: I've enjoyed using Tana to create outline representations of things I'm trying to make sense of, such as a character's move set in Tekken 8 or the homework questions in a programming assignment. I can reference components of these outlines to indicate which specific part of the reference material I'm referring to. A common note-taking tip I've heard over the years is to take notes in your own words, but I've found that starting with this advice just results in me becoming a thesaurus without actually gaining a better understanding of whatever it is that I'm studying. However, refactoring source material actually tends to help me better understand what I'm studying by giving me a greater sense of ownership over it, as one typically feels after building anything themself.
Obscure, Miscellaneous Usage Tips
- Shift Click: Get an in-line card displaying information contained within node referenced
- Command Option Down: Expand Node without exposing any preexisting children (especially useful for nodes with a lot of children)
- Command C (with cursor in a field header) -> Command V within a new field: To copy a preexisting field to a different supertag (for avoiding field redundancy)
I've been using Tana on and off for over a year now, and after a few tries, I finally get just how powerful it is. It definitely has a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, you can’t live without it.
Keep it up, Tana!!!
