⚡️ Ideas
Eneko Uruñuela Eneko Uruñuela Sep 12, 2023

Ability to add HTML (interactive) images

Explain the problem as you see it

Currently, Tana only allows uploading 2D images. While this is great in many cases, it is subpar for research in many domains, where an interactive 3D image is necessary to do work. For instance, to get a full grasp of brain activity networks, one needs to look at a 3D volume image of the brain since 2D images only show a slice of the brain and hide important information to interpret the full picture. This feature would also allow the addition of interactive plots made with bokeh for example, which allow the user to hover over the points to access more information about the data. All in all, this feature would bridge two very important steps of knowledge management so they can be used together: interactive figures and note-taking.

Why is this a problem for you?

I cannot take notes referencing neuroimaging data using the whole brain. I am limited to selecting only a couple of slices of the brain, which severely limits the full picture.

Suggest a solution

To allow uploading images in the HTML format. To limit the amount of resources used to display these interactive images, a reload button could be shown next to the image. This way, the image would only be displayed when using the reload button. Tana could also limit the number of running views to 5 for instance to use fewer resources.

A couple of examples of these images that can be saved as HTML files would be: