tana

Tips and Tricks

Short tips on how to get the most out of Tana

These tips will show every day you log in, until you've seen all tips.

If you turn off the daily tips, you can turn them back on in your settings.

When your cursor is in a node and you copy it, Cmd/Ctrl+V pastes a reference to it and Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+V pastes a duplicate copy of the text.

Replace the content of an existing panel by dragging any item to the header area of the panel! This will also work for items dragged from the sidebar.

Quick Add allows you to quickly add items to your daily page without navigating away from your current view.

Use the command line to set field values in supertags

How to set an alias on an inline reference

Live Search for a node's backlinks by using the LINKS_TO system field

Define custom keyboard shortcuts for any command in the command line

Paste as code

Realizing how tags, nodes, and fields all come together with Jeff Torgerson and Multigreg

Two members of our community share their greatest learnings so far from using Tana

Want to quickly add multiple nodes with the same tag? Use "Set default tag for children."

Want your fields to autocomplete, but an instance field is either too broad or too narrow? Use a live search to populate your Dynamic Options field.

Type `>` at the beginning of a node to create a field

You can set the value of a field without opening up the node. Works on multiple nodes at once.

Using Supertags and Fields as prompts for your workflow with Jeff Torgerson

Save time and effort by extending broad supertags with more specific supertags with default values set for their fields.

Don't want a field to take up visual space when empty? Set the field to hide when it's empty from the command line.

Hold shift when inserting from the @ dialog to directly insert an inline reference

Search within a workspace (or any node) by running the command "Search within" while your cursor is in the node