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Ken Blackman

Ken Blackman

Joined Mar 6, 2023 Last seen Feb 13, 2025
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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Nested queries, or queries within queries
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Feb 3, 2025

    Agreed. Much of the query functionality seems like it naturally could and should be recursive. My use cases:

    Find nodes that are CHILD OF a node that contains the word “Related” and is a CHILD OF the target node, ie:

    Concept 1
      Related
        @Concept 2
        @Concept 3

    Find nodes that are linked to by a node that contains the word Related and is a child of the target node, ie:

    Concept 1
      Related: @Concept 2, @Concept 3

    And perhaps most usefully, find nodes that are in an instance of >related field in the target node, ie:

    Concept 1
      >related::
        @Concept 2
        @Concept 3
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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Allow Claude and other models to be used instead of GPT
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Oct 10, 2024
    In reply to Alexander Schwarz Alexander Schwarz
    Alexander Schwarz Alexander Schwarz Apr 22, 2024
    Claude 3 is great, but I found Gemini 1.5 Pro even better. (I use it via poe.com.) Would be great if Tana permitted openrouter.ai as an API-interface to access different language models. Here's an e...

    @Alexander Schwarz is right— there's a super-easy way Tana could do this. Make the OpenAI base URL a system setting instead of hard-coded. Boom! Now we can point it to our own router.ai setup and use any model we want.

    I like Claude better than ChatGPT for many if not most tasks... and increasingly, I would also prefer to financially support Anthropic over OpenAI.

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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Car Play support
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Jun 9, 2024

    YES! I do all of my best thinking and dictating while driving. I already use Tana Capture but as Jac said it's not only inconvenient, it's unsafe. So yes, please, carplay.

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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. New semantic function: Dependency of
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Mar 19, 2024

    I came here today to suggest exactly this.

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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Allow Claude and other models to be used instead of GPT
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Mar 7, 2024

    Has taken on new significance in recent days (March 2024) with the release of Claude 3, which I'd love to use inside Tana!

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    1. Newly Released Feature Feedback
    2. Request for feedback on Text selections toolbar
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Nov 10, 2023

    I would love to see add link and clear link. Links are actually hard to work with in Tana. You can't edit the text, you can't edit the URL, all you can do is click on it to open it in the browser. The selection toolbar is the perfect place to improve this.

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    2. Request for feedback on Text selections toolbar
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Nov 9, 2023

    I love it. I'm grateful you decided to include strikethrough and highlighting from the outset, rather than just going mvp. Thank you! Well done.

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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Under "Display" allow "breadcrumbs"
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Nov 2, 2023

    node display 3.jpg

    @Wannes I'm pretty sure @Greg Hadley is referring to the Display option on nodes that are viewed as tables or cards. (See images below.)

    I have the same request, here's my use case: when I have a Search, I want to be able to see where the found nodes are located.

    For example, if a node says "Don't trust him, he lies about everything," or "Best meal I've had in years," it would be useful to show the node's parent + ancestors. As it is, I have to click through.

    Hence adding breadcrumbs as one of the Display options.

    (Greg, would you edit your request to give more detail about the problem you're trying to solve, and what the solution would look like? 🙏)

    node display.jpg
    node display 2.jpg

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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Recurring Date Field
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Apr 3, 2023

    I'm partial to Things 3's handling of recurring tasks. You can specify recurrence based strictly on the date, regardless of the state of the previous instantiation, as described above. OR it can be based off the completion date of the existing item—the next day, or 5 days or 3 weeks after the current item is marked done.

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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Build Fields From Title
    Ken Blackman Ken Blackman Mar 26, 2023

    I've thought of this before too. If I write #replyto @Joe on @Voxer, and my #replyto supertag has instance fields for #person and #comm-channel, it would be nice if it had the smarts to fill those fields from the text. That workflow comes way more naturally to me, in this use case, than filling out the fields to build the title. (Though there are other use cases where I happily use build title from fields.)

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