1/ Is @tana_inc a "shiny object"?

Man, I hate that expression. While this term has its place, somehow, in the #TfT space, it has become a way to throw mud at others. (competitors, jealousy, etc).

Tana is not a shiny object. Their Slack is proof something good is cooking.
2/ I did not record any official numbers, but before their early access announcement, I am sure slack was sitting around 200-300 users. As of today, it is 3000+.

That is a significant and overwhelming increase in just a matter of a few weeks.
3/ In the introduce-yourself channel on their Slack, numerous new people introduce themselves daily.

These are amazing, smart, sincere & exciting people.

They want to be a part of something special. I applaud them for investing time and energy in Tana's early development.
4/

Let us build something interesting together, Tana and community!

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Oct 24
Learning Planning Skills with baby steps

Another nice Cal Newport video on baby steps for those lacking planning skills.

Read on for some additional opinions. #TfT

I have always been a planner. I enjoy planning, and I enjoy seeing plans come to fruition.

However, I am a realist.

20% - 30% of my plans often don't succeed how I envisioned them.

But when there is no plan, this often means worse results.

Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I have seen that some people give up on planning because plans often fail and require a lot of work.

However, what they fail to take into account is how GOOD things went because they had a plan.
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Oct 16
1/ Funny you should ask, @n_vanderhoeven just asked me that same question. Let me share my answer here.
2/ Obsidian and Tana are not easy to compare. They are in the same competitive space: Tools for Thought, but they solve different problems. So there is overlap, but they are fairly different.

Obsidian is the best choice for Markdown, TNO, and long-form writing. Single-user work.
3/ Tana will be best for outliner database-like functionality: (everything is a database record). So stronger for more structured content and querying against that. Multi-user collaboration.

Tana solves many problems within the product that other TfT tools need plugins for.
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Oct 16
1/ Tana is.... Tana is not...

What is Tana to me?

A lot of buzz about @tana_inc & people patiently (impatiently) waiting for their invite for early access.

Many compare Tana to Notion and Roam, but Tana is its own thing and in its own class. #TfT
2/ Recently @SantiYounger did this great 9-minute video on what Tana is. Well worth watching. He also calls it a tool that brings in all the features he wants from tools like @todoist, @NotionHQ, @RoamResearch & @logseq.

3/ Also, @jcfischer, the other day, compared Tana to Lotus notes, which is also a great comparison.

Tana is the first tool I have seen that uses an outliner metaphor for collecting data with little structure to as much structure as you want, all built on a real database.
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Oct 13
/1 A rant, sponsored by the good folks at the #TfT Hacking foundation

I sadly notice increasing criticism toward content creators, with sarcastic expressions like "Shiney new objects" or of creators generating content about news tools.

Like they have selfish or evil intentions.
/2 I don't consider myself a content creator, but let me apologize on behalf of all those content creators who FORCE you to read their content on Twitter, medium, etc, or FORCE you to watch their videos on YouTube.

Please take note of the sarcasm in this last statement.
/3 People, we are the masters of our own domain (browser, inbox, etc). If you feel overwhelmed, use the "unfollow" button & don't open videos on YouTube.

Please, don't make these people feel bad for the self-sacrificing effort they put into providing us with educational content.
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Oct 13
1/ I feel like a little kid in a candy shop. @lucca_dev is working on an importer tool to convert Obsidian vaults to a @tana_inc graph.

I just did an import of my nastily tangily monsteraly complex vault, and it worked very well!
2/ Some things, of course, don't convert well. This isn't the fault of the importer, but the fact is you can't 100% translate one system to another.

But what is important is that all the notes are there and that they can be worked with.
3/ Lucca's implementation is excellent. It converted my Tags and Frontmatter to supertags with fields.

I imported my data and in minutes, could write structured queries against my imported Obsidian data.
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Oct 3
1/7 The definitive "RUNNING" list of learning material for @tana_inc

Since Tana is so new and there is a budding list of new learning content, I started this thread as way of capturing online Tana learning material.

Feel free to add if you find something else not on my list.
2/7 @cortexfutura is my personal #TfT guru / therapist.

He has done an introductory series that is absolutely mandatory watching for all Tana users.

Tana Foundation Series - the fundamentals explained step-by-step.

Padawans, learn from the master!

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3/7 Learn from watching real-world use of Tana.

@Mappletons is one of the brilliant minds in the TfT space. She is kind, warm, genuine, and knows what she is talking about.

Watch this video to learn how to solve real-world problems.

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