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Jan 5 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Things I hope @tana_inc builds soon

As you know I'm a huge fan of Tana and their ability to ship consistently.

So here's a little wishlist of things I hope they build for us soon
A calendar view

I use Tana to create all the content for CortexFutura, and what I really want is a calendar view to make having a content calendar easier.

Notion has it, and Tana should too.
This setup from @evielync is great, but shouldn't be necessary:
Good markdown export

Right now, getting things out of Tana to use them elsewhere is...not fun.

People keep asking me when I'll publish something like Cite to Write for Tana – and decent Markdown export is one of the major holdbacks.
Aliases

If I'm writing about hanging out with my dad, I want to be able to write "hung out with dad" and not "hung out with [[MY DADS NAME]]".

And I don't want to create a #hang-out supertag that extends the #event supertag where my dad is listed in the "Participants" field ;)
Line-breaks inside a node

I want to be able to paste a poem into Tana and keep the formatting. I want to be able to paste a full tweet without breaking it into multiple nodes.
Relative dates

I want to set fields to +3 days from now, for example, and search for the same.
A full API – I want Readwise highlights piped into Tana automatically, and I want zoteroTana :)
Those are the features that immediately come to mind when thinking about what I want to see in Tana.

What are your wishes for the tool? What's missing for you?
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Jan 4
Make predictions and review them

That's one of the best tools I've found to get better at decision making and understanding reality

You can do this in any tool (a calendar can work!), but I really like the affordances @tana_inc gives me for this, so here's how I have set it up:
In Tana, all you need to do is tag your prediction – I have created the very imaginative supertag "prediction" for this:
As you can see, I have a couple of fields for this supertag:

Prediction Area lets my classify the topic of my prediction: is it about geopolitics, domestic politics, AI, or my own business?

You can obviously substitute your own areas of interest!
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Jan 4
Big update from @tana_inc dropped today: you can now merge nodes!

Here's why that's an important feature and how to use it: 🧵
Why is merging nodes important?

Let's say you're taking notes on articles that cover ChatGPT.
But some of the article call it chatGPT, other Chat GPT, or ChatGPT, and you end up with all three spellings.

You likely want to settle on one canonical way of spelling it!
There are a couple of ways to merge nodes now – the first is really simple:

If all the nodes _live_ next to each other, you can select them all, hit CMD/Ctrl+k and search for "merge nodes"

Select the node you want to merge the other two into, and you're done!
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Jan 3
I don't like months and years as planning horizons.

They manage to be too short and too long at the same time to be useful.

Instead I use six week periods and half years – I call them "Macro Cycle" and "Super Cycle".

Here's how I set them up:
Macro Cycles span six weeks, and I give each one a theme.
The last one was called "Go for Launch" because I launched Mastering Tana Core during it, and the new cycle – first of 2023 – is called "New Baseline". Image
During each Macro Cycle I set up goals and experiments I want to run. That way I can easily review at the end of each cycle.

That review looks something like the screenshot below.
Note that I didn't fill in the whole template – that's fine. It's about prompting, not must-follow. Image
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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 2
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"
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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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