Tana for students: transcribe lectures, take smarter notes, and stay organized

Why students choose Tana

Being a student today means managing a flood of lectures, readings, projects, and deadlines. Traditional note-taking tools capture information, but they don’t help you connect it, act on it, or keep track of everything across courses. Tana is built to solve this. It’s more than a note-taking app, it’s a connected workspace where you can transcribe lectures, capture ideas, manage assignments, and let AI help you study smarter.

• Transcribe lectures instantly: Turn spoken content into searchable, structured notes.
• Organize assignments and deadlines: Track every task with due dates and reminders.
• Connect your knowledge: Link readings, concepts, and projects across subjects.
• Study with AI support: Summarize readings, generate flashcards, and create study guides.
• Work better in groups: Share workspaces for team projects while keeping personal notes private.
• Free to get started: Students can use the free version of Tana at no cost, or optionally upgrade to the student plan with 50% discount with included AI credits.

Start fast with the Tana student hub template

You don’t need to spend hours setting up your workspace. The Student hub template gives you a complete out-of-the-box system for tracking courses, assignments, and reading resources.

• Add your courses, lectures and assignments automatically organized by course and due date.
• Record and transcribe lectures directly into your workspace, so you never miss key details.
• Get help from AI to ask questions or extract info from transcribed lecture notes, and get help from the Lecture agent to prepare for exams.

With the template, you get structure from day one, and you can still customize it as your semester evolves. Try Student hub in Tana now for free.

Take better notes with lecture transcription and AI support

Typing fast enough to keep up with lectures is nearly impossible. With Tana, you can record and transcribe lectures in realtime. Every word becomes searchable and editable, so you can focus on listening and engaging in class. You can take your own notes on the side, and link to quotes from the transcript while it's running!

AI goes beyond transcription: it can summarize readings, extract key concepts, and even generate exam or practice questions. Messy notes turn into structured study guides, saving you hours of prep time and making your knowledge compound.

Organize your assignments and deadlines in one place

As a student, you have to juggle multiple courses, each with its own assignments, exams, and readings. Instead of using separate apps, Tana lets you manage it all inside one connected system.

With Supertags in Tana, you can add fields like due date, course name, and priority to any note. This means your assignments automatically flow into dashboards — weekly planners, exam calendars, or project trackers — without extra effort. Draft your assignments directly in the list - Tana's outline editor is perfect for starting with high level structure, then filling in details as you work deeper. Get help from AI by triggering an AI chat with any note simply by pressing Space beneath it, or hitting the AI chat button.

Move beyond traditional note-taking apps

Students often ask: How is Tana different from tools like Notion or Obsidian?

Unlike apps that rely on folders or databases, Tana is powered by a knowledge graph. Notes, readings, and tasks are connected automatically. For example, a lecture transcription tagged with “History 201” can be added directly in the course, any exam questions derived from the lectures in the course can easily be aggregated for the whole semester. In Tana, you can tag notes anywhere, and make live searches that automatically updates with newly tagged items. To pull inn existing notes, resources or link notes together, you can simply type @ and select the note you want to link to.

This flexibility means you can shape your study system around the way you think, rather than bending your workflow to fit rigid templates.

Collaborate better on group projects

Group projects often suffer from scattered information across email threads, chat apps, and documents. In Tana, you can create a shared workspace, install the Student hub template into it, and build a shared hub with classmates, keeping everyone on the same page in real time.

Collaboration happens directly in your connected knowledge system, so updates, resources, and tasks are always in context. Learn more about shared workspaces.

Study anywhere, securely

Tana works across desktop and mobile. Use the Tana mobile app for iOS or for Android, to capture ideas, record voice memos or review upcoming assignments on the go. Tana's Supertags let you go from rambling voice memo to shareable article or summary in minutes. Explore templates for mobile voice memos.

All your data stays private to your workspace unless you choose to share it, and you can publish any notes you want to share, either in a reader-friendly Article view, or full interactive Tana view. With Tana Publish, you can let others browse your connected notes

Get started for free

The best part? Tana has a free version, and a generous discount for students. You can sign up today, apply the Student Hub template, and have your entire semester organized in minutes. To test all the paid features, you get a 14 day free trial with no committment or credit card required.

As you grow into more advanced features, you can upgrade for deeper AI support and collaboration, with student discounts available on premium plans. To get the student discount, email student@tana.inc from your student email or attach a copy of your student ID.

The student’s second brain

Tana is more than a note-taking app. With the Student Hub template and built-in AI, it’s your second brain for studying—a place where lectures, readings, assignments, and group work all come together in one connected system.