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Jan 2 12 tweets 5 min read
52 Books in 52 Weeks – Let's go!

Incidentally, @tana_inc is the PERFECT tool to follow along and taking notes on these books.

It can even prompt you every day with the current book on the list!

Let me show you how to set it up:

First, copy the link to this public, read-only Tana workspace I made into your own, personal workspace.

Should look like this in the end:

app.tana.inc/?nodeid=_hYis5…
Click on the node of that workspace (the rainbow-colored bullet point) and then go to Options > "Add to Sidebar"
If that worked correctly, it'll look something like this:
Now go to your own workspace, and select Options > Allow Content from > "Fridman's Reading List 2023"
Now you can go to your personal workspace's #day supertag, and add a live search configured like this:

Through the "Workspace" dropdown at the bottom, add "Fridman's Book List 2023" to the search – this filters to elements from the public workspace.
Then, add searches for "Reading Start Date" and "Reading End Date":
Add two OR operators, and inside each

1) search for the field itself set to PARENT
2) Add LT (less than) Reading Start Date > PARENT to first OR
3) Add GT (greater than) Reading End Date > PARENT to second OR
And with this search, your daily node is always going to show you which book you're currently supposed to be reading!
You can, of course, also just clone the whole book-list into your own, personal workspace.

OR into a workspace shared with a couple of friends – then you can take notes *together* on these books!

Watch this:
When it's not a public, read-only workspace, but a privately shared one (manually inviting people) everyone can just indent their own thoughts under the book – and everyone else has immediate access them as they are reading and taking notes!

@tana_inc is AMAZING for bookclubs.
Anyway, I hope you've found this thread helpful!

Follow me @cortexfutura for more and like/retweet the first tweet below if you can:
I also have a course about building powerful supertag systems in Tana – it's called Mastering Tana Core, and you can find out more about it here:
go.cortexfutura.com/course/masteri…

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Jan 2
Annual Reviews are incredibly powerful tools

And NOW is the time to build the systems to enable the perfect review at the end of 2023

Here's how to set it up in @tana_inc:
First, you'll want to record your wins!

Create a supertag #win – and on your daily node, simply write down any wins you have and tag them with it.

This supertag has two fields set up, "Life Theme" and "Year":
The "Life Theme" lets you record where your win happened:
I have set up these themes:

🌞 Health (Physical, Mental, Spiritual)
💸 Wealth (Investing, Spending, Earning)
❤️ Relationships (Friends, Family, Romantic)
🥳 Experiences (Travel, Leisure, Hobbies)
🏗️ Business
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Jan 1
You NEED to be bored more

That's something I've noticed (again...) over the holidays.

Boredom is your greatest creative resource – it's a tremendous source of activation energy for generating output.

Hear me out:
I had a *great* time over the holidays – lots of family time, great food, much needed rest.

And...I got bored. REALLY bored.

But I didn't allow myself an immediate fix for that boredom – I especially restricted my social media time.

And something funny happened...
The more bored I got, the more ideas I had.
It was almost too much!

Most of them I wrote down – that was the only thing I was allowed to do.

No implementation, no project planning...just dumping the ideas somewhere.

And I noticed something:
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Dec 17, 2022
Is Roam or Tana the better TfT program for academia/knowledge management?

Got this question from a customer today, and thought I'd provide my reasoning as of December 2022 for everyone.
Tana is still in early access – which means that there are important features lacking for a full academic workflow.

Writing long-form text in Tana isn't really fun imo, and getting what you have written out of Tana is even worse.
The affordances by the _incredible_ zoteroRoam plugin are hard to beat – nothing comparable exists in Tana at the moment.

Sure, you can use Tana Paste to get things into Tana, but Citekey support etc. are lacking in Tana.
Read 9 tweets
Dec 16, 2022
Yesterday Tana released a new feature that has blown my mind: Semantic Functions

I've made a video about it (linked at the end) because I think it's a huge deal that hints at great future capabilities.

Let's dive in:
Tana's fields have always provided a great way to give links between nodes meaning, make them legible.

A "book" as a field "Author" that links to a node tagged "Author" – 'book has author'. Image
This has enabled powerful search features in Tana: "find all books by $Author" is an easy thing to build! Image
Read 8 tweets
Dec 11, 2022
You do not need my Tana course.

Seriously, Tana makes it incredibly easy to get started, has brilliant onboarding, and there are a TON of free resources out there to get started.

You don't need any course to be productive in Tana.
If you want to learn the very basics of Tana, check out my videos on Youtube – they are free, and after watching a couple YT is probably going to suggest tons of other videos from the amazing community to you.

And don't overthink getting started either...
youtube.com/playlist?list=…
Yes, Tana allows you to build super complex and super powerful systems.

Yes, that's one of the reasons I LOVE Tana.

But just getting started and tagging things at all gives you so much value.
And you can always change your supertags down the line, add and remove!
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Dec 10, 2022
Let ChatGPT build your Tana Supertags for you!

Since the first day of using ChatGPT I can't stop playing around with it.

And so of course I took @bragebang's tweet on how ChatGPT can help come up with schemas for @tana_inc as inspiration...
to see how far you can push ChatGPT to help you with building supertag systems for Tana.

Turns out: quite far!
With the prompt in the image, you get a great list of concepts for a sales database...
But as you can see here, you can push this much further and get something that's _almost_ ready to be pasted into Tana:

I say almost, because if you paste it like that, it's not going to work – you need "example content" before each supertag.
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