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Tana AI provides access to the best LLMs in the world, pairing each task with the ideal model for the job.

Overview

Since the beginning, Tana was always meant to work with AI. After extensively testing with our users on the possibilities, we are now officially building and integrating AI into Tana. We're calling this Tana AI.

Tana AI provides access to the best LLMs in the world. We pair each task with the ideal model for the job. Every model will already be fine-tuned for use in Tana, so you don't have to worry about that.

All savings we receive on volume pricing are yours. When you subscribe to Tana Core, you get access to not only all the fine-tuned AI models we subscribe to, but also the volume pricing we receive.

There is no need to bring your own AI API keys to Tana anymore. But if you want to use your own key for some things, we have left two commands (Ask AI + Generic AI query) that you can use with your own OpenAI key.

AI should be like electricity: you turn it on, and it just works.

Basic

  • There are many features in Tana that work with AI. For an extensive list, see the next section on Features using AI.
  • You can chat with your knowledge using AI in Tana! AI chat comes in two flavours: Ask AI where you get a standard chat, and Ask AI about this content which takes into consideration the context you add into the chat.
  • Talk to Tana and get your thoughts transcribed straight where you want it. Use live transcribe or audio-enabled fields and tags to speak straight into Tana.
  • AI actions require credits to run. Tana Core users get 5000 AI credits every month. Credits can be topped up.
  • AI is a Tana Core feature. You can only use AI in Tana if you are on the Tana Core plan.

Features using AI

AI chat

See AI chat

Meeting agent

See Meeting agent

Calendar integration

See Calendar integration

Live transcription

There are several ways to access real-time transcription in Tana:

  • Create new > Start live transcription: Transcribes into the new node. These are created on your Daily notes
  • Audio-enabled fields: Enables an audio button on the field. Pressing it triggers live transcription, which becomes the field value.
  • Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+E: This starts global live transcription. Once complete, these go to the Inbox

Change transcription language

Unless you specified a default language to use during onboarding, your language is likely set to auto-detect.

If you're not having good results with this, you can specify a preferred language:

  • Command line: Set default transcription language to →

To change the transcription language temporarily:

  • Audio-enabled fields: Shift+click on the record button
  • Live transcription on a node: Click on the globe 🌐 icon
Audio-enabled field

The current language options are:

  • Chinese
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Korean
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish

AI commands and events

AI commands: Several new AI commands have been added that provide powerful AI tools to a Tana near you:

  • Add meeting bot: Sends a meeting agent to a video call to transcribe what participants are saying
  • Text processing agent: Takes a transcript, extracts information and puts it in a target location.

For more on command nodes, see AI command nodes

Events: We have added a new way to trigger commands to happen when nodes are added or removed from another node. They are called Events, and can be set up for any node and supertag.

For nodes: Run Configure node and go to On child added/On child removed:

For supertags: Go to Supertag config > AI and Commands > On added/on removed

Details

Tana comes with several tools for managing AI work:

AI credits

All Tana Core subscribers get 5000 credits every month to spend on AI actions. This translates to the following:

  • 22x30 min meetings
  • 125 AI generated images
  • 570 blogposts generated
  • 25 hours of transcribed voice transcription

If you are out of credits, you can buy more from the AI credits section here.

GPT log monitor

The command line Open GPT log monitor will open a monitor that shows you how many credits are being used for various AI work. Right now it only shows credits spent using OpenAI models. We hope to add support for other models in the future.

Click on the line items to expand and see the payloads.

AI for builders

The Tana Labs experiment AI for builders is what kickstarted the work on AI in Tana over a year ago. All the things you were able to do with AI for builders, you can do with a Tana Core subscription, without the need to bring your own key.

For more detail, read the AI for builders page.

Related release notes

  • ImprovedRemoved global system prompt from Ask AI, no longer necessary given improved LLM models. ()
  • InfoAdded GPT4o-2024-11-20 as a model choice (not yet default model) ()
  • InfoWe have removed the Cluster nodes command, which was an early experiment of what was possible with AI and embeddings. We might bring back a better/more robust version in the future. ()

Related FAQs

Question

  • How much AI is included in the Core plan?
    Sep 26, 2024
  • How fast does Tana update to the latest AI models?
    Sep 12, 2024
  • Does the GPT log monitor show AI credits usage by the Meeting agent?
    Sep 12, 2024
  • Can I use my own OpenAI API key in Tana?
    Sep 06, 2024
  • How are AI credits used on shared workspaces?
    Sep 05, 2024

Examples

  • Use AI to connect Readwise tags to my list of topics
    Sep 12, 2024

    The Tana API that is used to power the Readwise integration is exactly the same (and therefore has the same limitations) as the Input API. It can only write new nodes to Tana, and the API can only write a single value to new fields.

    So, to get all your tags out of Readwise, we recommend a comma-separated format, and then using AI to link to the correct nodes in your graph.

    Here's a video of how it works (no audio):

    Here is the prompt:

    PROMPT

    Look at each keyword separated by the commas:

    Input:
    [${rwTags}]

    And try to find equivalents in this list of all keywords:
    //Insert search node here that finds all keywords/topics

    EXAMPLE:

    Input:
    [arbitrage, cities, dikw, economy]

    Output:
    - [[Arbitrage]]
    - [[Cities]]
    - [[DIKW]]
    - [[Economy]]

    Just print the output, nothing else.

    For best results, ensure that the tags in Readwise match the topic nodes in your Tana graph as closely as possible.

    Related docs: .