Other examples:
Book Tracking - it would be nice to see how many books I've read this year without having to manually count
Tasks this week - a count give a quick overview of whether the week is busy or not
Inventory - Saving a list of anything in Tana, it would be useful to have a count of items
Casey Matt
The Logseq implementation is exactly what I was just about to point out. I really like the way that Logseq treats the Whiteboards as pages. They can me linked to, referenced, their content show up is search (and is also able to be referenced).
Whiteboards/Canvas are an essential tool.
I'll share my use case to display one way they function. When I read books I make a last as I read of all the salient points from the book. I bring this in as an list. Then from the list I pull the into a whiteboard. Here I begin to develop groupings, and the order them—generally moving them around to not only understand them better individually but also in relation to each other. Then from the whiteboard I can create an outline.
That is only the first step. I also have whiteboard for the top level areas of research that I'm intersted in. I can pull individual notes into areas where they will be relevant. And like the books boards, these boards will begin to develop groupings and orders. For example in the books I read I may find 30 notes about "writing" and 23 about "technology." I can bring them into the respective topic boards. And from that I will gain a deeper understanding of these topics through out all of my reading.
The whiteboards are key to this synthesis.
Something Went Wrong
I'm honestly, baffled that this isn't higher in requests. Not that this is a needed feature per se, but rather that it's such an obvious extension of Tana.
Two years ago when Tana came out, my understanding was that this was the projected direction of things; that this was essentially what set Tana apart. Tana didn't build supertags so we could all have fun adding unnecessary details to everything. I was under the impression that Tana was built with the coming importance of AI in mind and that supertags were an important feature because they added context to the connections between nodes which would allow the AI to be more informed on not just the fact that two things are related but how they are related.
So to provide that valuable context to the AI it seems only obvious that the next step would be to use that to then project possible connections between nodes. This solves two enormous problems from pkm systems:
This feature is probably one of the most valuable features Tana could create. And Tana is in a better position to achieve this than the hit or miss "related content" that Mem, Reflect Notes, etc offer, because Tana has more structured data and context.
I hope to see this feature soon. And I hope to see more people in the community talking about the value of this. It's really a make or break feature for the future of the app, IMHO.