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 co...
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:
Formulas are free while AI costs a lot of tokens
Formulas offer far more control over the output with more predictable results
Formulas offer conditional loops (if/then, etc)
Formulas offer mathematical operations crucial for manipulating numbers on spreadsheets
Formulas are usually more "immediate" and do not require the clicking of a button to run - it's immediately reflected in realtime
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
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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