Word on Tana's Slack instance is that the product will come out of beta on February 3.

https://tana.inc

Web, Mac, Windows, iOS apps -- Android release is lagging

I've used Tana since the initial builds in 2022. On the surface, it appears like the typical link-this-to-that web note taking app that exist in the hundreds, perhaps. Complexity comes with "supertags", defined blocks of meta data that can be applied to any node, and with "commands", manipulation of node data and integration with ChatGPT and other models. Documentation is plentiful but somewhat confusing and poorly integrated, in my opinion. This is one of those apps, like Tinderbox, that folks will jump into because they heard it is wonderfully powerful, and run to the exits because getting that power to work requires a maker's discipline. It will be interesting to see if the revenue phase will lead to evolution or not.

Just for info, the Android app has just become available for testing, according to a post in the r/TanaInc subreddit.


Paul Korm wrote:

Word on Tana's Slack instance is that the product will come out of beta
on February 3.

https://tana.inc

Web, Mac, Windows, iOS apps -- Android release is lagging

I've used Tana since the initial builds in 2022. On the surface, it
appears like the typical link-this-to-that web note taking app that
exist in the hundreds, perhaps. Complexity comes with "supertags",
defined blocks of meta data that can be applied to any node, and with
"commands", manipulation of node data and integration with ChatGPT and
other models. Documentation is plentiful but somewhat confusing and
poorly integrated, in my opinion. This is one of those apps, like
Tinderbox, that folks will jump into because they heard it is
wonderfully powerful, and run to the exits because getting that power to
work requires a maker's discipline. It will be interesting to see if
the revenue phase will lead to evolution or not.

Paul Korm wrote:

This is one of those apps, like
Tinderbox, that folks will jump into because they heard it is
wonderfully powerful, and run to the exits because getting that power to
work requires a maker's discipline.

This is perhaps the funniest (yet factually correct) statement about an entire class of software products and their users known as CRIMPers to the initiated.

But let’s be honest here: if the makers had only those of us as customers whose use could be described as meaningful, the industry would be a lot smaller and less interesting

Absolutely! I utterly repudiate the idea that I’m a nihilist. And yet I have just spent a couple of hours wrestling with the impressive but somewhat erudite Anytype (multi-platform, open-source, E2E) to see if I can finally wrap my brain around the concept of “relations”, “sets” and “collections”, and actually create a system worth using.

Meanwhile I’m happily continuing to use acreom, which does (almost) everything I need without any shenanigans at all...

Of course “almost” is the fly in the ointment here, at least for the Confirmed Crimper. Ah me...

Prion wrote:

Paul Korm wrote:
> This is one of those apps, like
>Tinderbox, that folks will jump into because they heard it is
>wonderfully powerful, and run to the exits because getting that power
to
>work requires a maker's discipline.

This is perhaps the funniest (yet factually correct) statement about an
entire class of software products and their users known as CRIMPers to
the initiated.

But let’s be honest here: if the makers had only those of us as
customers whose use could be described as meaningful, the industry would
be a lot smaller and less interesting

Not my intention to open another can of worms (OK, maybe it is just a little bit) but I read that Acreom is "for software engineers" and from a quick look at the examples, structure and integrations, it appears indeed to be so.

At the same time I'm aware that some software developer workflows are well suited for other intellectual production cases, and have in fact used Kanban to good effect.

Could you write a few points about what you like in Acreom?

I just saw that there is a dedicated thread; feel free to respond there if you do:
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9653


MadaboutDana wrote:

Meanwhile I'm happily continuing to use acreom, which does
(almost) everything I need without any shenanigans at all...

I would also be interested in learning more about your Acreom experiences, as I've found Acreom's feature set enticing.

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:

Not my intention to open another can of worms (OK, maybe it is just a
little bit) but I read that Acreom is "for software engineers" and from
a quick look at the examples, structure and integrations, it appears
indeed to be so.

At the same time I'm aware that some software developer workflows are
well suited for other intellectual production cases, and have in fact
used Kanban to good effect.

Could you write a few points about what you like in Acreom?

I just saw that there is a dedicated thread; feel free to respond there
if you do:
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9653


MadaboutDana wrote:
>Meanwhile I'm happily continuing to use acreom, which does
>(almost) everything I need without any shenanigans at all...

Sure. I’ve switched over to the dedicated thread!