ollie_r's Comments
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In reply to
George Corrigan
George Corrigan
Apr 23, 2025 I may have overstated. The community is very very supportive. So much so that this person showed me how to construct the code I wanted, all while saying "you're missing the point of Tana". He may be s...Thank you for the clarification! I can very much relate to the way you described Workflowy, haha!
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In reply to
George Corrigan
George Corrigan
Apr 23, 2025 I realize that Tana is "more powerful" because you can tag anywhere, and smart nodes collate the results. But what that leads to is stuff all over the place and working with search nodes all the time....So much this. And hearing that your concerns and solutions are mocked is disheartening. People have different needs and preferences. Tana markets itself as flexible and wanting to fit your workflow but if there is such a strongly opinionated design hidden underneath and ambassadors mocking or discouraging people's personal workflows and preferences is a bit alarming. My brain works exactly the same way as you describe and hearing this makes me feel a bit uncomfortable about going all in on Tana.
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Maybe you could implement it similar to the task list in the boilerplate day template, where we can choose how many items are displayed at once.
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In reply to Matt MMatt M Staff
Nov 25, 2024 Thanks, nice idea, one for future. Tab to indent currently works when parent is collapsed, but we can be more mouse friendly here. CleanShot 2024-11-25 at 14.42.20.gifI'd also really like to see this feature as well! Right now the UI has a lot of unnecessary friction when structuring thinking, brainstorms and such. I work in game development, and our industry relies a lot on hierarchical structures for designs and work backlogs.
Pinned nodes should support this as well. Sometimes I want to just quickly drop a node underneath a pinned node, like my work backlog or my scratchpad of raw uncategorized notes.
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I'd also really like to see this implemented. In my mind, it is a basic feature of an outliner. I can't think of any other outliner apps that do not support this. It is the single thing that makes me not want to switch from Workflowy to Tana, as it introduces so much unnecessary friction while structuring your thinking.
"Followed by the team saying "why are newbies struggling to onboard""
Yes I would not mind learning the ins and outs of the complexity and there are many great YouTubers like Ev who make brilliant content. But what's slowly pushing me away from tana is not setting up the structure but the "death by a thousand paper cuts" the user interface has.
There are so so many little frustrating things that make it just a chore to use normally.
I want to organize a brainstorming session into a nice hierarchy. No problem in workflowy or todoist. I can just use the mouse to nest nodes under each other. Tana, for some reason, wants you to open the node, drag it underneath, and then close it back up.
Why can I use "move with finder" but not a normal drag and drop?
I have pinned notes which are great! I can have my most accessed projects at my finger tips. Sweet and if I pin it they work as a capture target on mobile.
But why can't I be in my day node and drag/drop captured ideas over to the pinned node and have it work as a drop target. No I can only pin it by dragging over.
I was so confused by this that I had filed it as a bug twice by accident.
Moving your content around and organizing it is such a chore that I'm ready to drop tana for something else... And it SUCKS because the idea behind it is brilliant and exactly what I had always wanted. The weird UX design decisions is ultimately what stops tana from adopting, not the super tags.
Another small thing that gets me is Ctrl shift up and down moves a node up and down in the hierarchy. Other outliners let you use left and right to indent and indent, feels intuitive like navigating around. But in Tana you have to use tab and shift tab.