If Tana add a simple reoccurring tasks system, I will immediately, dump Notion (which I have been using for hmm 5-6 years) and hand Tana whatever cash they desire each month.
I have tested this incredible tool for hundreds of hours, concurrently with my current Notion system, and Tana is better in every way. Every. Way.
Except Notion enables you to have repeating tasks in the form of templates.
A huge amount of my daily, weekly, and monthly tasks are set as automatic recurring tasks in Notion to automate me doing them, so I don’t have to think about them until they show up.
I have tried DIY repeat tasks systems in Tana such as Nestor’s. And what he has created is incredible. But it’s a bit cumbersome what should be a streamlined, basic, included by default, feature.
I so want to use this tool, god, so badly, but I can’t without that feature. And thousands, tens of thousands of people who agree. Tana is probably missing out on tens of millions of monthly revenue just because of this lack of basic feature turning people away from it.
Not sure about the
part, but other than that, yeah. There are other reasons why I, personally, still rely on "Reminders" (the default "task manager" on Mac- and iOS: the simplicity and notifications. The Tana app just takes too long to boot up. Getting to a page inside the app that shows me "anything worthwhile" just takes too long. If I want to quickly check what's due today, the "quickly" part is actually important. I don't accept waiting for +10s from tapping the icon to looking at anything. The other piece is just the fact that rely on notifications for due tasks heavily (with a margin of error, of course). The fact that the Tana app(s) aren't able to send me reminders, in particular on mobile, is a deal breaker.
I am on the paid plan for legacy reasons, so it's not that they are currently missing out on money. It's just that their premise and part of the story telling around "ditch all the silly other apps" just isn't true, regardless of how much they try to tell us about "Flow state" at work etc.
Anyway, amazing product, keep going dick hats!
