If Tana wants to be used for note-taking and outlining, it needs to make writing essays easy. The best learners write essays and make mind maps to learn. Mind maps are a heavy lift, but essays should be easy.
I suspect the Tana way would be to make a "long form" view. For an essay, each sentence would have a tag, like #introduction, #thesis, #support, #conclusion, and so on. For a poem, the tags would include #stanza. Then, the "long form" view would render this as an essay in a readable and editable format, the way that CSS renders text. Each tag could have formatting properties, like a paragraph format in a word processor. Gonna suggest this.
I feel like the easiest way to do this would just be:
!syntax for heading levels.The last thing that would help here, for poets like myself, would just be to make line breaks possible inside any node with shift + enter. Then users can create a "stanza" tag as needed.
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All this would stay in Tana's ethos of being highly composable and essentially allow us to make templates for any kind of document we can imagine.