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Tana Live Build: The Focus Dashboard

​This session is about building a Focus Dashboard: a living system that ties together your areas, projects, actions, and reviews into one adaptable flow.

🎛️ The Focus Dashboard

What do the most popular productivity frameworks have in common?

• Tiago Forte’s PARA

• August Bradley’s PPV

• Cal Newport’s Multi-Scale Planning

• Jordan Peterson’s Future Authoring

They all try to solve the same challenge: how do you stay focused and keep moving forward, even when the goalposts shift?

This session was about building a Focus Dashboard, a living system that ties together your areas, projects, actions, and reviews into one adaptable flow.

We showed how to:

• 🔧 Capture tasks, projects, and routines across every area of life

• 📊 Align them with shifting goals, objectives, and KPIs

• ⏳ Review progress across multiple time horizons (daily → quarterly → yearly)

• 🎯 Bring it all together in a dashboard that keeps your focus on meaningful action, even as circumstances change

Mark started with a pre-built demo and then built a Focus Dashboard live from scratch, showing how to move from knowledge management to systems for action in a way that works for executives, consultants, and individuals alike.


Access the Pre-Build Template here: https://tana.pub/zBJfG-gx5FxC/focus-dashboard-pre-build


This session was run live on 24 September 2025.