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Brage Bang

How do you explain Tana to others?

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When speaking to people who have never heard about Tana, how do you explain what it is? I am curious! Personally, I have to vet their current tool use thoroughly before I know how to talk about it. 😄

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Juan Fernandez

"Imagine you could take regular old notes in a journal and that, on the fly, you can make little databases out of parts of your notes and do database like things."

Juan Fernandez

I don't even get into the AI stuff because in the current AI hype, people I work with see most AI integrations as grifting.

Once people see the value of that notes -> dynamic db idea, they see the immediate value of AI integration.

Brage Bang

@juan_fernandez5 Interesting. Do your friends intuitively get why databases are awesome, or do you have to dig down on why this matters?

Juan Fernandez

@bragebang Great question, this has been mostly with my work colleagues and they get it 100%.

Outside of work, the people in my life are not nearly as interested in that metaphor and instead respond more to: "Imagine you could just jot things down and then find them painlessly in the future, without worrying about what document or folder what you're looking for is in."

Brage Bang

@juan_fernandez5 Awesome. Makes sense!

David Delgado Vendrell

A place where you convert your raw thoughts into digitally structured Insights, thanks to the help of advanced categorization and workflows assisted by AI LLMs 🚀

Brage Bang

@davdelven I love it. I could tell my MOST ONLINE friends this, but not all my friends 😄

David Delgado Vendrell

@bragebang What kind of friends do you have, man? 😂🤦

Jean Pierre Traets

First of all, I do NOT communicate to anyone about Tana,


People around me experience that I started to lift up "stories" that impress them and some ask "HOW I manage to stay on top"


I inform them that I take (audio) notes, and embassed I ask them WHY don't you take notes.


Most will say something like, "I can't find them back", or "can't remember where I stored them", "I switched so many tools".


And only then, when they continue to express serious interest I will show them the "the secret saus"


At this stage, I stay with the "Tana" minimalist configuration. Only if they will adapt this stage and continue to have interest in more, the "box of Pandora", with goody's will open.


So far I didn't come yet.





Brage Bang

@jetra Very interesting. I also start with voice notes. Preferably using the new #brainstorm supertag from our new starter content — I record to the supertag, then show them the extracted ideas, questions and tasks.

Thanks for the comment!

Odin Urdland

I find this really really hard. I mean, I make Tana, and I sit alone in a innovation co-working space. But then when people ask me to pitch or say what I'm working on, I freeze because it's too big. I'll be stealing some of what people do here ^_^

The problem is of course that I never really know what level the visitors we get here are at, some are deeply technical, and some are more finance people, or from local government or other things. So it very much depends on the person what they'll 'get' and understand.