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ollie_r

ollie_r

Joined Apr 22, 2025 Last seen Jun 13, 2025
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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Make it easy to indent a node, under another collapsed node.
    ollie_r ollie_r Apr 23, 2025
    In reply to George Corrigan George Corrigan
    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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    1. ⚡️ Ideas
    2. Make it easy to indent a node, under another collapsed node.
    ollie_r ollie_r Apr 23, 2025
    In reply to George Corrigan George Corrigan
    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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    2. Reduce on screen clutter through collapsible fields
    ollie_r ollie_r Apr 22, 2025

    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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    2. Make it easy to indent a node, under another collapsed node.
    ollie_r ollie_r Apr 22, 2025
    In reply to M Matt M
    M Matt 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.gif

    I'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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    2. Drop a node in or under another node depending on cursor position
    ollie_r ollie_r Apr 22, 2025

    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.

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