With the Producthunt launch, we also updated the starter content for new users.

A lot of the tags in the setup are using new Tana features in cool ways: #brainstorm lets you capture ideas and questions from voice on mobile, #daily prep lets you plan your day on the go, #article is built to go from voice->Tana publish in no time.

Folks often think of Tana as having a "steep learning curve." And I get where that comes from—it's flexible and powerful, so there are a lot of different ways to set up workflows. But there's a specific relationship between supertags, fields, and searches that is simple to learn that I consider my fundamental Tana LEGO® block.

It works like this. If I want to see how two things relate—say, books and authors—I first create supertags for both. Then within the #book supertag I create a field called "Author" that draws its options from instances of the #author supertag. And in the #author supertag, I create a search called Books that finds all books by whatever author you're looking at.

It sets up something like this:

A Tale of Two Cities #book
- Author:: Charles Dickens #author

and

Charles Dickens #author
- Books by this Author (<- search)
  - A Tale of Two Cities #book (<- search result)
  - David Copperfield #book (<- search result)

The syntax of the search inside the #author supertag is
- #book
- Author:: PARENT

As in, find all books where the author is whatever author you're currently looking at.

This pattern is powerful, because its how I connect tasks to projects (Project field in #task, Tasks search in #project), or quotes to sources (Source field in #quote, Quotes search in #source), or discussion points to people (Person field in #discussion point, Topics to Discuss search in #person), etc.

The pattern is simple to learn, but many complicated-looking dashboards in Tana are little more than just a lot of these simple relationships working together.

With powerful features like supertags, custom commands, and AI integration, Tana lets you build a fully customized workspace—no rigid default structure. Instead of adapting your workflow to a tool, Tana adapts to you.Whether you’re crafting an interconnected knowledge system, managing projects and tasks, or building a CRM, the possibilities are truly limitless.Here’s an example of how you can structure a CRM in Tana: