Kelley Chambers
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Winston
Winston
May 29, 2023
Winston
Winston
I've been thinking about this - Tana still needs this function despite AI. AI might help but it's too overkill for simpler formulas like these. Besides, having formulas like if/then or concatenation w...
While there are a lot of great things coming down the pike with AI, it's still not there. Very few know how to use it and a lot more are not comfortable with its existence. Formulas are an inherent component in other productivity/PKM apps such as Notion, Coda and Obsidian. I am surprised that Tana doesn't have this out of the gate. However, what it does currently, it does very well. I just hope that developers understand what a critical component this is to those of us who are granule thinkers (which I would believe are a large chuck of the current user base) and require views to incorporate such data.
Hugely agree with this. I hope some of the Tana team has played around with these formulas in Notion or Clickup so that they understand how powerful these "formulas" can be. It is one of the bedrocks of "Notion templates", and people sell these formulas. But if they are working on it, I'm pretty sure the Tana team can integrate it well enough.
For example, August Bradley's pretty famous Notion PPV framework relies on the bedrock of formulas. He's never going to try out Tana for real when Notion offers a much more efficient workflow, along with relational databases and 'bidirectional relationships' among databases.
The difference between AI and formulas:
I really like the AI thing going on, but sometimes the output can be quite unpredictable. Also, it's costly over time. And I'd love