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Getting Readwise into Tana – with Raycaster!

I do most of my reading in @ReadwiseReader, and so it's super important for me to get my highlights from there into Tana.

Let me show you how to do that using the Raycaster "Readwise-to-Tana" plugin! Image
Once you have installed the plugin and entered your Readwise API token, you get the "Search Highlights" option in Raycaster.

This is your entry point into ALL your Readwise highlights: Image
Here's my current collection of recently highlighted books and articles as an example.

For any source you can show the highlights by just hitting enter – very quick.
Cmd+k gives you more actions. Here is where you can set up your export template. I'll show you in the next tweet! Image
Here's what you see when you press Cmd+k: you can show your highlights for the selected source, update the template, or clear your sync history.

Let's look at the template... Image
Here are all the options you can configure for how things go from Readwise to Tana. For every type of source you can specify the relevant tag or field.
Articles will be tagged with #article and the title of the source will go into a field called >Title, for example: ImageImageImageImage
Let's get back to the highlights themselves.
This is what you see when you select "Show Highlights".

If you hit Enter again, you'll be able to "Copy All Highlights" – this will take all highlights and put them onto your clipboard, ready to paste into Tana. Image
Once you've copied and pasted them, the little checkmarks will turn green, as you can see in the first screenshot.

Have some new highlights?
No problem: Just hit Cmd+k, and then select "Copy all unsynced highlights" to copy only the new ones over! ImageImage
And this is what you get when you paste into Tana: a nicely formatted node with all the quotes indented and correctly connected!

This is such a godsend – I think you should check it out too :)
Here's the link:
raycast.com/believer/readw… ImageImage
If you liked this thread and want to read more about how to get the most out of Tana, follow me @cortexfutura!

And if you want a powerful, fully implemented second brain in Tana, check out my template Tanarian Brain:
go.cortexfutura.com/templates/tana…
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May 22
The Daily Dashboard

One @tana_inc feature I take full advantage of every single day is the day-supertag.

It's the perfect place to configure a daily dashboard, and I've built a very powerful collection of live searches for it into Tanarian Brain: Image
Tanarian Brain comes with a fully-featured GTD Dashboard for your Daily Node:

Do Next – anything you've marked "In Progress"
Due Today – Due Date is today
Overdue – Due Date is in the past
Upcoming Tasks – Due Date is in the future ImageImageImageImage
You also get a dashboard/live search for your most important projects:

Every project comes with a checkbox "Priority". Select this checkbox, and as long as the project remains undone, it'll show up on your daily node. Image
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May 1
📢 Tana is now on iOS!

I've wanted this for the longest time, and I'm so excited that it's now finally here!

Let me show you what you can do with it! Image
The app is called Tana Capture and it lets you do what it says on the tin: easily capture anything you'd want while you're on the go!

Voice Memos? ✅
Photos? ✅
Text? ✅
Text scanned from paper books you're reading? ✅

It's awesome. Image
Naturally you can also share things from anywhere on iOS through the share sheet.

I use this _all the time_ to share quotes from Readwise into Tana.

Not a full integration between Readwise and Tana yet, but daaamn is it convenient! ImageImageImage
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Apr 28
✨ Tana AI is INSANE

It's crazy how easy it is and how powerful at the same time.

Of course, my template Tanarian Brain has gotten an upgrade to take advantage of what you can do now...

Let me show you!
So far I've added nine special commands and fields to Tanarian Brain that take your notetaking and thinking to the next level.

Let's start easy: it's really simple to get a definition of the concepts you encounter while you're taking notes: ImageImage
What I use A LOT is automatically getting the topics that a quote or Zettel contains and adding it to that quote or Zettel. ImageImage
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Apr 3
HUGE new feature for Tana: Calendar Views!

Tana has done an amazing job in bringing this feature into the world – so many people wanted this, and Tana has delivered.

Let me tell you all about it: 🧵
You can show ANY node in a calendar view!

This will then show you any INDENTED node that has a date field on that calendar view.

If you add a new event, it gets auto-indented – and nodes without any date info are hidden from the calendar view.
Live Searches with calendar views – of course this is possible!

You can search for anything, and if the results have a date field set, you can show them in a calendar view.

I'm showing the month view here, but you can switch to week and day views too, of course!
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Mar 15
Note-taking in the Age of AI

🤖 As AI continues to advance, what's the point of note-taking?

After spending the day working through my adrenaline rush after GPT-4 was announced, some thoughts why note-taking STILL matters: 🧵👇
💭 AI may be powerful, but it's still a TOOL.

Our role? Shift focus from documenting generic info to deeply reflecting on our thoughts & making sense of the data.

And guess what? Less time collecting info means more time for our inner reflections.
🚀 With AI, we're becoming more potent cyborgs than ever!

We already are, with our phones glued to our hands.

Now imagine AI as a new appendage, which we'll rely on more than we've ever relied on Google and Wikipedia.

This is exciting more than it is scary.
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Mar 11
I've been thinking about note-taking and tempo.

When you take notes in a professional capacity, so not as part of a hobby, you're generally interested in generating tempo:

Make better decisions faster because of better analysis.

This has implications:
1/ Minimum Viable Structure

You're not a librarian - your main focus is not to catalog and deeply index information.

Your focus is on getting the most important information down and process it for integration and retrievability as quickly as possible.
2/ Insight > Coverage

Generating tempo means you'll want to heavily prioritize actionable insight.

Getting this actionable insight from a few high-quality sources is vastly preferable compared to a broad, shallow overview of the state of the literature.
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