It would be great to know if Something like infinite canvas / visual graph / whiteboard functionality is on the cards.
I use Tana daily and love it, slowly building a system for everything I do, work-related and otherwise. But I find myself increasingly copying several nodes into Heptabase and rebuilding connections there as the whiteboard functionality is a key component of processing and connecting ideas. Then I bring what I generate back to Tana to connect it to the rest of my graph. I enclose an example of what I do with Heptabase to help me understand or develop ideas.
Heptabase is not as powerful as Tana when it comes to customising your workspace and evolving the schema or using AI, but it is quickly adding very effective components to its excellent whiteboard function, such as journaling and supertags.
I know there are many other products trying similar things, but I believe that Tana and Heptabase have the advantage in their respective strengths. At the moment I am happily paying for both but that also means a lot of work to move my data back and forth. A single environment combining the two sets of functionalities would be amazing. I'd love to hear what the Tana team is thinking about this.
I, like you, really need whiteboards and mind maps
Thanks for sharing this Federico. You've inspired me to have a play around with Heptabase, alongside Tana, at least until better more integrated options are possible. If you were able to share more about your Heptabase/Tana workflow, I'd be interested to see.
I'm also in Tana Slack if that's helpful and recently (Sept 2025) posed this question https://tanacommunity.slack.com/archives/C02DAKDSVQA/p1757061775473839
"I would very much like to be able to easily visualize my Tana knowledge graph, and, ideally, interact with (portions of it) through such a visualization. The sorts of interactions I'd like to be able to do include exploring, querying and modifying.
Is Tana planning to add functionality for this sort of visualization, let's say in the next 6 months, or would I need to be exploring other options?
I'd want those other options to be ones that would play nicely with Tana, enabling me to export data from Tana to the visualization software, and, ideally, to then put a modified visualization (perhaps with new information nodes and connections) back into Tana, with the minimum of manual fuss.
What other options and workarounds have people found useful? Neo4j looks interesting, with a strong focus on relationships (as well as nodes), but I'd be interested to hear others' experience.
Here, FYI, is what Perplexity helpfully said: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-does-xmind-ai-do-and-what-Q1qGN12nSraAFkjOtEli.g#6 (Tana stuff is at the end of the thread)"
FWIW, I am now exploring Heptabase, finding it very useful, and beginning to work out how I can use it alongside (back, and forth, more manually than I would like) Tana.