Question
- How do I enable the scan text feature in Tana Capture on iOS?Sep 26, 2024
Tana Capture
A mobile companion app to capture your thoughts and send them to Tana, anywhere and anyhow.
Overview
Tana Capture is a mobile companion app designed for quick capture of thoughts and moments of genius on your mobile, sending them straight to your Tana inbox.
Available for Android (iOS being deprecated, use Tana mobile instead):
Basics
- 🌊 Seamless Text Capturing: Jot down ideas, notes, or tasks on the go with Tana Capture's intuitive and user-friendly interface. Stay organized and never miss a vital piece of information again.
- đź’¬ Talk and transcribe: Record voice memos, interviews, or meetings quickly and effortlessly. Tana Capture ensures that you can recall spoken information with the tap of a button.
- 📨 Share to Tana: Share media and links super-fast, from all over the web.
- đź“· Snap and Send: Take pictures or record videos and instantly send them to your inbox in your workspace. Document your progress or capture inspirational moments right at your fingertips.
- đź“– Scan with Precision: Transform any physical document, business card, or receipt into a digital format with Tana Capture's powerful text-scanning capabilities. Eliminate paper clutter and efficiently store all your documents in one location. Oh, and did we mention locked screen widgets and quick action?
Voice memo on Tana Capture: Overview
(Relocated from Voice memo docs and will eventually be deprecated)
Voice memos are a fast way to get your thoughts out of your head and into Tana for further processing. Tana Capture's voice memo is perfect for when you're on the go and all you want is a quick and friction-less way to capture your thought in as much fidelity as possible. Voice memos are also great for moments where you can't thumb-type it down fast enough or you're in the middle of making dinner.
When a voice memo is recorded, it gets sent to your current daily note via the Inbox and instantly transcribed and enriched by entities in your Tana.
You can further process voice memos using Rewrite, an AI feature for rewriting transcripts into other types of content.
Basics
- Make voice recordings in Tana Capture, and they will be sent to your daily notes page (via the Inbox) and processed there.
- Speak in a single task, and it will be automatically tagged and added to your list of tasks.
- For longer recordings, zoom into it and you'll see a full transcript that you can use the Rewrite action on.
- This does not work with the voice recording feature on the desktop app, as those do not send the voice file via the Inbox for processing. You can process it manually by running the command
Inbox Audio Processing Command - The Rewrite action helps you transform a rambling set of thoughts into a fully written piece. Current options include Summary, Pros and cons, Article and Tweet, with more to come. Rewrite is present on all voice recording files in Tana.
- When you rewrite as Article, a
Publishbutton appears that opens the preview window for Tana Publish. In one click you can share the piece externally, with password protection or freely.
Details
Below is only applicable to voice memo workflows for Tana Capture on Android
How to use voice memos
- Make sure you are subscribed to a paid Tana plan (or activated a trial at least) and that voice memos are installed in your Tana
- Get the Tana Capture app on your phone and record a voice memo. If you don't have it yet, you can download it here. Note: You can also drag an audio file into the Inbox and it'll start processing.
- The recording will be sent to your daily notes immediately and transcribed.
- For any voice memo, you can zoom into it to see a full transcript that you can use the Rewrite action on. If it found items like tasks, it will put them in the Items tab.
Rewrite
All voice recordings now have a new feature called Rewrite
You can find the Rewrite options on the top-right of the voice recording.
Summary: Generates a summary of the transcript
Pros and cons: Generates a list of pros and cons. Tag the title with #article to publish and share immediately with Tana Publish
Article: Generates an article you can publish and share immediately with Tana Publish
Tweet: Generates drafts of short-form social media posts
These are just the beginning, more to come!
Voice memo setup for existing users
If you're an existing user, you'll see a blue prompt on the bottom of the sidebar to try out the new voice memo.
This guides you through a short setup which will confirm which #task tag you want to use, and replaces all On added commands currently on your Inbox.
If you want to save these commands, we recommend moving them out before running the setup as it will replace everything with the new command (see below).
New command node: Inbox Audio Processing Command
The Inbox Audio Processing Command is a new command specifically to process audio coming through the Inbox. It transcribes, then sends the voice memo to your daily notes page.
The only available parameter is Tag candidates. By default, this is set with your chosen Task tag.
To find it, run the command Configure node on the Inbox node and scroll down to On child added.
To change the default task that gets used by voice memos
Follow the instructions above to open the Inbox Audio Processing Command.
In the Inbox Audio Processing Command, open the configuration and there you can change the default tag that gets applied
To change the target location for voice memos
Follow the instructions above to open the Inbox Audio Processing Command.
In the Inbox Audio Processing Command, open the configuration and add the parameter called Target location for voice memos. There you can choose from options or paste a reference to any node you want them sent to. If it's empty, the voice memo is not moved anywhere.
