What's new in Tana: Every new feature you might have missed from 2024
2024 was a transformative year for Tana. If you’ve stepped away for a while — or even if you’ve just missed a few updates — now’s the perfect time to dive back in.
From deep mobile capabilities to game-changing AI workflows, we’ve shipped dozens of new features to help you think better, move faster, and stay in flow.
Here’s a comprehensive look at everything that’s new in Tana.
New Mobile Apps for iOS and Android
Notes, voice memos, and full Editing on the go.
The Tana mobile app for iOS and Android lets you quickly capture ideas and access your workspace wherever you are. Access and edit all your notes, search for specific notes, walk and work with auto-transcribed voice memos and auto-filled fields.
- Voice Memos: Record thoughts out loud, tag them, and Tana transcribes and structures your notes automatically.
- Tag on the Fly: Capture to any Supertag or workspace location while on the move.
- Mobile Editing: You can now edit any existing content from your phone - enable "Early access" in the "Manage" tab in the app.
Live Transcription (desktop)
Transcribe your thoughts with real-time dictation. On desktop, just hit / and select Live Transcription to start dictating directly into your notes — Tana will transcribe your speech in real-time and structure it as you speak. Perfect for focused thinking sessions or outlining ideas as they flow.
There are several ways to start real-time transcription in Tana:
- Type / (slash) on an empty node, and choose "Live transcription" from the menu. The transcript will be shown below a new node where you can set a title.
- Create new button in sidebar > Start live transcription: Transcribes into the new node you created. New nodes like this are created on your Today page.
- Audio-enabled fields: Enables an audio button on the field. Pressing it triggers live transcription, with the transcript stored into the field. Set this up in field configuration.
AI Chat: Select the model you prefer
AI is deeply integrated across the Tana workspace. The Tana AI chat is available on all notes and can help with summarizing notes, do research, answer questions. For more advanced workflows, Tana’s command nodes can be used to build powerful workflows with AI. You can now build AI chat agents tailored for specific Supertags or use cases.
- Multi-Model Support: Experiment with different models from leading providers like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
- Integrated AI Chat: Hit space below any note anywhere and use AI to generate content, ideas, or answers about that note. Read more.
- Custom AI Commands: Build reusable workflows and attach them to Supertags as buttons. Read more.
- Edit and tag AI responses: Tana’s AI chat lets you tag sections of text directly in the chat, or edit text before you add it to your notes.
Meetings made easy
Get your meetings ready for note-taking in Tana with the Google calendar integration and meeting notifications.
Tana integrates seamlessly with Google Calendar (support for other providers like Outlook is on the way), importing your meetings into Tana every day and notifying you when a meeting is about to start. One click is all it takes to both open the meeting in Tana and join the meeting link!
- View your day’s events directly in your Daily Notes.
- Click into an event to take notes or add the meeting agent
- Contacts are automatically imported and tagged as #person
- Get desktop notifications when meetings start (requires Tana Desktop app)
- One-click to open Tana and join the meeting
Record and summarize meetings
Record meetings with Tana, then get transcripts, key takeaways, and action items right into your workspace — so you never miss the important stuff.
The Tana meeting agent will request to join your meeting – then send the information, transcript, and action items back to Tana, so you don’t miss a beat, and can easily retrieve anything that mattered from the meeting.
- Add meeting agents to any meeting you have in Tana
- The agent will automatically make a meeting summary
- Action items will be suggested, so you can easily tag them for follow-up
Related Content
Surface the information that matters, in the right context. Related content widgets can be set up to show searches for notes with a Supertag. Build great supertag templates for meetings, tasks, project etc. so you get the context you need.
- On daily notes, see open tasks or anything else you define (goals, habits, projects).
- Choose position on the right side or below note content
- Add custom related content to any Supertag or note by creating saved searches, right-click and then select "Move search to related content".
Progress bars and checkboxes
See progress at a glance with the new Progress bar feature in Tana. It's never been easier to stay on top of projects, tasks and sub-tasks.
Tana makes task tracking visual and intuitive:
- Add checkboxes (with Ctrl/Cmd+Enter) to create tasks.
- Notes with checkboxes below now show automatic progress bars based on completed items.
- Use shortcuts (cmd+Enter or ctrl+Enter) to convert multiple notes into tasks instantly.
- Nest multiple progress bars to track sub-projects/tasks below a main task.
Visual Upgrades: Icons, Headings, and Highlighting
Tana’s clean interface got a serious glow-up, with more tools to improve readability and processing of information. Use headings organize content with visual hierarchy, or highlight important content.
- Headings: Use !, slash menu or right-click to enable headings
- Page Icons: Replace bullets with custom icons, or set default icons per supertag.
- Header Images: Add personality to pages with uploaded or AI-generated visuals.
- Inline Highlighting: Select any text to format it and visually emphasize important points.
Side Menu and Tabs View: Build Your Perfect Workspace
Tana’s layout system now has two new navigation view, allowing you to the build the dashboards that suit your workflow.
- Use Tabs to work like a browser, switching between notes or filtered views.
- Add Side Views for dashboards, indexes, or project overviews.
- Combine both for a fully personalized, high-efficiency interface.
- Add new sections with one click
Tana Publish: Share Your Notes
Turn your notes into beautiful, shareable webpages, or share meetings notes with your coworkers.
- Control formatting of headings, fields with real-time preview
- Select serif/sans-serif font
- Customize the author byline
- Password-protect pages for secure sharing (paid plans)
Paid plans for casual or professional use
Tana now offers two paid plans; Plus and Pro, that gives access to powerful features and integrated AI.
Tana Plus - For daily use for meetings, notes and tasks. Includes all the basic features you need like Calendar integration, Mobile Voice memo transcription, AI chat. 2000 AI credits as monthly quota (enough for 400 min. meetings).
Tana Pro - For power users who leverage the full capabilities of Tana to build workflows with command nodes, AI and API, 5000 AI credits included (enough for 1000 min. meetings
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