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Maciej Smoła

Maciej Smoła

Joined Mar 3, 2023 Last seen Nov 2, 2025
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    2. Long-form writing in Tana
    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Oct 30, 2023
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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Aug 27, 2023
    I just felt the biggest reason why I would like to have an easier way for long form writing, strictly meaning multiline nodes. It’s because there is no way to tag many nodes at once in a good fashion...

    Adding to the long form, multiline text tagging.

    It would be very useful to be able to tag group of nodes OR a multiline text, with a way to add fields to them, like:

    [["Treatment of atrial fibrillation includes:

    • antiarrhythmic drugs
    • ablation"]] #note
      .> Topic:: Atrial fibrillation

    [["What about:

    • X
    • Y
    • Z?]] #student question
      .> Student:: Mark Cuker
      .> Date:: 2023-10-29
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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Oct 19, 2023

    Very good point!

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Aug 27, 2023

    I just felt the biggest reason why I would like to have an easier way for long form writing, strictly meaning multiline nodes.

    It’s because there is no way to tag many nodes at once in a good fashion.

    I would love to create taggable content without the “title node” or without tagging each line of the text. I would like to tag whole “block” of that text, like:

    • multiline poem → #poem,
    • draft of an email/response to question for my online course → #draft,
    • block of text ready to be copied and pasted somewhere else, without “-”, only with simple /newline characters/.
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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Jul 8, 2023

    @Matthew Barlow would you mind elaborating how does your connection with Airtable look like (here or in Slack community)?

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Jun 6, 2023

    The only thing I would add here is the ability to set custom aliases on the fly – when after selecting text typing "@" would invoke the popup to create a new node in the Library OR create an alias for ... → search for node to create an alias for.

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 29, 2023

    plus Node Creator

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 18, 2023

    Related ideas:

    • https://ideas.tana.inc/posts/169-node-folding-for-only-markfieldsmark-area
    • https://ideas.tana.inc/posts/35-option-to-hide-markfieldsmark
    • https://ideas.tana.inc/posts/152-enhancements-to-showhide-in-markfieldsmark
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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 17, 2023

    Similar:

    • https://ideas.tana.inc/posts/19-flexible-inline-reference-aliases
    • https://ideas.tana.inc/posts/45-ability-to-set-aliases-for-a-node
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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 10, 2023

    Similar idea: https://ideas.tana.inc/posts/84-automatic-conversion-of-quotquot-to-references-and-quotquot-to-inline-references-along-with-quot-at-quot-working-as-usual

    Agreed a lot about "smoothness of operation".

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 6, 2023

    That looks very nice and helpful

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 4, 2023
    In reply to Olli Tiainen Olli Tiainen
    Olli Tiainen Olli Tiainen May 4, 2023
    In simple relationships, yes, such as: Person (supertag) is a member of a Project (Field instance for Projects) Project (supertag) has a Team member (Field instance for Persons) But in more complex...

    I see, so then we would be able to for example explain the mechanism of Vitamin D by describing the relation itself.
    Have you seen that implemented in UI anywhere? Where should it go in the app like Tana? Curious to see if there are any which could be helpful for devs

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 4, 2023

    @Olli Tiainen @Andric Tham wouldn't mentioned "connection between supertag instance fields information" be contained within the field title and description?

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 1, 2023

    @Gabriel have you tried extending tags with making them more specific? In your example I would see:

    • #article
    • #newspaper article - extends #article and has fields from #article as well as from #newspaper article
    • #academic article - extends #article and has fields from #article as well as from #academic article
    • #book
    • #chapter (or #book chapter) - it can extend #book or not, depending on your use case

    You can read more here:
    https://help.tana.inc/extending-tags.html

    https://help.tana.inc/save-time-and-effort-by-extending-broad-supertags-with-more-specific-supertags-with-default-values-set-for-their-fields.html

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła May 1, 2023

    Heyo! Until that is fixed you can use Shift+Click to open above. Check this Help Centre article: https://help.tana.inc/docks-and-panels.html

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Apr 22, 2023
    In reply to Andric Tham Andric Tham
    Andric Tham Andric Tham Apr 22, 2023
    I think it matters. Annotated edges are an essential component of graphs. With Roam-style backlinks, there aren’t any annotated edges between pages that link to each other, but at least the unstruct...

    @Andric Tham do you know if there is any example of edges, annotated edges and edge properties to help visualizing that?

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Apr 16, 2023

    Similar idea: https://ideas.tana.inc/posts/59-markbuildmark-markfieldsmark-from-title

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Apr 14, 2023

    +1. Quick launch and quick search to be able to access specific information from Tana is crucial for me to make Tana reliable for storing work stuff.

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Apr 1, 2023

    Related: https://tanacommunity.slack.com/archives/C02DAJB4XTM/p1678918545478349

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Apr 1, 2023

    .+ 1 for iCloud calendar

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    Maciej Smoła Maciej Smoła Apr 1, 2023

    Feature seems to be introduced in the latest update https://tanacommunity.slack.com/archives/C044WE82Z0T/p1680274398149909

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