Tana — First Impressions

I decided to spend a bit of time over my recent break playing around with an app called Tana. I have heard a lot of good things about it wanted to see what all of the fuss was about. So, here are my first impressions of the app.

Please note, this is not a deep dive nor is it an in depth review of all the features and functions. I used the app for a couple of hours and went through their pre-built tutorials to try and get to grips with the various features and functions.

Conclusions

I will start at the end. I do not think Tana is for me. I have two main reasons for this. The most important is that it is an app that does not work the way I tend to think. The second is that, I think for what it is, it is incredibly expensive.

I would also add that the pre-built tutorial seems very ‘light’ considering all the different features of the app, as is their documentation. You need third party input to understand this app fully

Tana — what is it and how does it work

Tana is effectively an outliner app. The way these basically work, for those not familiar, is that you have a kind of bulleted outline. Each bullet or sub-bullet (no matter how deep you go) can be opened up separately as it’s own page. Once you open it up as it’s own page any content that is…