We have released our 'Create new' button in sidebar.
We are looking for feedback and first impressions. Please add any feedback or ideas in the thread below. This feedback will be considered by the product team in future updates.
Please note, this is not a place for submitting bugs. If you are encountering a bug, please file a report in app via 'submit a bug' in the bottom left settings menu in your Tana workspace.
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This is a great addition, I'd love for there to be a way to add a keyboard shortcut for this!
Agreed. A keyboard shortcut to this would be great.
Is this a replacement of the pop-up we had with the "lightning" button?
(I use it intensively and had valuable notes there which were not yet dispatched to my today's page. I'm not sure if I need to file a bug report or how to get assistance finding them?)
About the feature - some benefits of the previous version which is now gone, are:
Having the pop-up content in a separate "buffer" allowed me to decide when to add it to my today's page, and at what date.
It was a super-workable and super-accessible way to do lightning fast drops of ideas or tasks or anything else I needed to capture or remember for the day. It could also be used as a sort of post-it for the current day/work. Like a jot-down space that didn't have to make it into my main graph if I got it handled. If I didn't, I could just save it when I close for the day.
This was great, because one of the challenges with Tana is that it is an omni-tool and we tend to have several browser windows open with multiple panels, each in their own work/task context. The pop-up could be easily accessed without risking to mess up any panel layouts.
In addition to the above, even if not using it as a jot-down space during the day - I am still forced to complete the "quick-entry" in one go. If I click "back" to get into my normal context (perhaps to check or copy something), I have no way to reach that created note again. I will then have to jump out to my today's page and scroll to the bottom. Previously I could just click outside the pop-up and find what I needed. And then open the pop-up again and continue my entry.
Overall, I see the (other) benefits of the new Create function. It can do more advanced things, but it could co-exist along with the pop-up / jotting feature which could stay simple. That would give us the best of two worlds.
Edit: I got a tip that the quick add is still available through the command menu. Good - then I can find my stuff there. My vote is that the functionality is kept in the app, and that it keeps an icon in the UI so that it remains a quick add :)