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Not sure about the

missing out on tens of millions of monthly revenue

part, but other than that, yeah. There are other reasons why I, personally, still rely on "Reminders" (the default "task manager" on Mac- and iOS: the simplicity and notifications. The Tana app just takes too long to boot up. Getting to a page inside the app that shows me "anything worthwhile" just takes too long. If I want to quickly check what's due today, the "quickly" part is actually important. I don't accept waiting for +10s from tapping the icon to looking at anything. The other piece is just the fact that rely on notifications for due tasks heavily (with a margin of error, of course). The fact that the Tana app(s) aren't able to send me reminders, in particular on mobile, is a deal breaker.

I am on the paid plan for legacy reasons, so it's not that they are currently missing out on money. It's just that their premise and part of the story telling around "ditch all the silly other apps" just isn't true, regardless of how much they try to tell us about "Flow state" at work etc.

Anyway, amazing product, keep going dick hats!

Have you tried this? https://tanacommunity.slack.com/archives/C02DP78UXHP/p1726144439882029

Hi all, I am not sure if it's actually a bug, but it FEELS like a :ladybug:

Workflow Setup

• I have a supertag called urgency which is just a number with a field to render an icon (don't mind the "icon" field value)
• I have ordered them top to bottom as you can see (in a place where I store such stuff)
• I have a field I use in various places called Urgency

Outcome

• I use that to set the value, and then render the icon in the title of a node (common pattern). That works just fine

Now, what I don't get is in which order the options are presented when I select the values. They seem to be in a complete random order. As you can see, they clearly don't represent "usage" (frequency).

Painpoint

• It causes unnecessary scrolling selecting of the ones I actually use most frequently. It wastes time!

:thinking_face: How can I fix that?

Thank you! :hugging_face:

I have to agree with other commenters: building this out manually is a pain and far from an "elegant solution" from a UX perspective. This should come standard and I am sure you and the team are aware of that. I get that people in the Tana environment build personal businesses around selling such solutions to other Tana users, but once you pay for the software, things look differently.

The homepages claims Tana to be "The everything OS", but only if you literally build everything yourself? It's supposed to be "A game-changer for project management", but only if you spend literal hours (plural) to configure it (and then spend many more to maintain it)?

Yep, just seeing the supertags as a graph would already be super useful vs the regular requests of getting a graph of everything, which is hardly useful (as many existing apps have shown)

Also important for basic abbreviations or acronyms as long as they add/reference to the same node

Today, you can only see the "X → extends → Y" relationship, but not the "Y → extended by → X" relation.

Having the ability to see "extended by" for each supertag would be really powerful.

As amazing as Tana is, most people will "work the system" quite a bit (or forever), so finding relationship is quite important to clean things up.

Would be nice if we could have a setting to "turn off 'build title from fields' in tables"

Background: I prefer to see the "challenge" in the title on daily basis (when I see individual nodes), but it's very much redundant in a table (exercise overview), where I'd rather just see it in the column rather than the node. This gets exacerbated if you build titles from multiple fields