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🚨 Introducing Tana Templates πŸŽ‰

Today @tana_inc launches a massive new feature: easily shareable templates.

With just a simple link you can share whole collections of connected supertags and live searches.

I've designed a full PARA template following @fortelabs's system πŸ‘‡
The great thing about Tana's template feature is that it lets you bundle all the different supertags, their fields and configurations, and live searches and share them with others.

With my PARA template, you'll get five supertags, 7 fields, and 20 search nodes, for example!
If you want a full demo of how you can install, use and of course also share videos, check out my newest video, where I show you everything in detail!

And then go forth and make your own, let a thousand #tanatemplates bloom!

Because the folks at Tana are awesome, they've given a whole bunch of creators preview access to the feature – and you get to profit from it:

Right now there are 10 templates ready to go for you to explore and play with! πŸš€

Check them all out here:
help.tana.inc/tana-templates…
And if you want a super extensive template, built to be a complete second brain system from start to finish, with support for PARA, GTD, Zettelkasten, and much more, check out cortexfutura.com/tanarian-brain/

Check the link below for a quote from Craig earlier today
Craig said:
I wasn't sure whether to buy Tanarian Brain bc I had already carefully developed my own versions of your Zettlekasten, project management, and Agile Results supertag systems. It's worked reasonably well. But after playing with Tanarian Brain all morning, I must...

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Jan 18
RFT – Request for Templates

What business processes should live inside tools like @tana_inc, Notion and the like?

What templates do you wish you had but can't find?
What are your favorite templates that you'd love to have ported to another tool? (All tools welcome!)
I'm asking because I had a very interesting call recently where I saw a huge FileMaker setup tuned to a specific org and its processes.

FileMaker is kinda the OG of tools like Notion and Tana – it lets you build custom databases and UIs relatively simple.

But it's slow as heck.
A couple of weeks before that I had a call where I was shown how an org moved off of a custom MS Access database to a different solution that was more generic.

This transition worked because the more "generic" software was actually built with the exact business process in mind.
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Jan 17
Do you treat note-taking with a scarcity mindset or with an abundance mindset?

Are the notes you take debts or deposits?

Both perspectives are fine, of course, but I much prefer the abundance mindset.
You know how there's this idea that you can't directly influence luck, but you can increase the "surface area" on which luck can strike?

Same with taking notes: the more great notes you have, and the more you connect them, the higher the chance for inspiration and insight.
The one resource that really is scarce is my memory.

That's why I outsource a lot of storage to my note-taking system - because space there is abundant.

Can't count how often I've found notes from ten years ago that provided fresh insight.
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Jan 16
Every note you take is a deposit.

It collects compound interest the more you connect it to other notes.

You cash in on that interest and capitalize on the notes you've taken when you produce work based on them.

This has five implications:
1 - Better notes are bigger deposits

Just highlighting or copy-pasting stuff isn't great note-taking - it's a (very) small deposit with generally low interest.

The original quote plus your thoughts on it, your take-away messages: large deposit.
2 - Taking the notes, reading, thinking, generates the deposit.

But connecting your notes is where you earn the compound interest.

If you don't connect your notes you're leaving the largest share of "profit" on the table.
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Jan 16
Avoid High Modernist Design in your Knowledge Base

Whether you're using @tana_inc, Notion, or any other tool to manage knowledge and collaborate – that's the one thing you want to avoid.

Let me tell you what I mean: 🧡
What is "High Modernism"?

It's a term from James Scott's fantastic book "Seeing Like A State" and describes, slightly condensing,

"uncritical optimism about comprehensive planning."

It's been applied to everything from forestry to city planning – and you should avoid it.
So what does it have to do with team knowledge bases?

When we decide to create a system to document things, to build a wiki, to collaborate, it's very easy to start by _designing_ such a system from scratch.

Tabula rasa, out with the old, in with the new.

Don't do that.
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Jan 9
How I do mobile Quick Capture into Tana

This is a common and super important request for @tana_inc to build soon.

Let me share a great (albeit hacky) way to do this RIGHT NOW on iOS that I learned from the phenomenal Slack community
Miguel Tavares has created a Quick Action for @draftsapp that lets you share notes directly into Tana.

You can find it here:
directory.getdrafts.com/a/2FY
To set this up, here's what you need to do:

In Tana, make a new node somewhere (I have mine in the sidebar) and call it something like "Mobile Inbox" (name doesn't matter, just needs to be a specific node)

Then focus your cursor into it, do Cmd/Ctrl+k and "Get API Token"
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Jan 8
Yesterday I wrote a thread about "build only what you need"

Here's what that looks like in practice:

I'm in a group chat with a bunch of smart people, and today it rained book recommendations.

I also have an extensive #Source tag that has a field >Recommended by

I could have made every recommendation into a full Source and then added the person recommending it...
But I didn't do that. Because I didn't have the time.

(I'm spending it now writing this thread, but oh well πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ 😁 )

Instead I just noted down the books, tagged them all with a new ad-hoc tag of "book recommendation" and declared it done.

Maybe later I'll update this...
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