Tana mobile
Overview
Tana mobile allows you to capture your thoughts to the graph, and—for the first time ever—view all your information from the app. Editing coming soon.
Basics
- Tana mobile has five main tabs:
- Browse: Shortcuts to your home node, your most current daily notes, and your pinned nodes.
- Supertags: Access all your supertags in Tana.
- Capture: Quick capture to Tana in different formats: Write, Voice, Camera, Media and Files.
- Search: Rapidly find any node in Tana, across all workspaces.
- Manage: See account info and settings
- Navigating nodes: Tap on any node to navigate to that node. Long-press for all options.
- Capture on node: As you're browsing Tana, capture a thought under any node using the blue ⊕ on the bottom right, or long-press on any tile.
Detail
Main menu:
—Browse
Access common places in your Tana.
- Home: Takes you to the home node of your workspace
- Today: Takes you to your current day page
- Pinned: Shows you any node you've pinned. These usually appear in the sidebar.
On browsing nodes: See below
—Supertags
Access all your supertags in Tana
- Filter: Find the tag you're looking for with the filter
- Pinned: Pinned tags are up top
- Tiles: Tap on the tiles to go to the supertag page
- Voice: Tap on the voice icon to record a memo using this supertag
—Capture
Menu for capturing content to Tana
Destination
Select Today, Inbox, or Pinned nodes as the destination
- Choose between Today and Inbox as the default destination by long-pressing on "Inbox"
Tag
Choose the supertag you want to add to your captured content
For voice capture only (paid plans):
- Auto-fill fields
- If you select a supertag with fields, Tana will auto-fill the fields based on what you capture
- Language Auto-Detection
- Automatically detects transcription language.
- Manually select language if auto-detection is inaccurate.
- Control Buttons
- Cancel: Left button discards the memo.
- Send: Blue button sends memo to Tana.
- Pause/Resume: Right button pauses/resumes recording.
—Search
Search for any node in your Tana
- Tap the search result to look at it
—Manage
Your account info, light/dark mode and more.
Your account options
Tap on your email to see the following:
- Subscription: Shows you which plan you are subscribed to.
- Sign out: Logs you out of Tana mobile
- Delete account: This deletes your account and all your data. You will not be able to log into Tana again, nor create a new account again.
Theme
Select Light mode, Dark mode, or sync to System
Sync history
A history of all captured content from the app and from elsewhere
Version
The version of the app you have installed
Browsing the graph
Nodes
Tap on the node to open it
Tap the > to the right to expand/collapse the node
Node view
When you navigate to a node, it will look like this:
- Go back: navigate to the previous view
- Breadcrumbs: navigate to a higher part of the tree
- Ellipsis menu:
- Copy link copies the URL to that node
- Pin adds node to pinned list
- Edit: Coming soon
- Node header with title, banner and tags (if applicable)
- Node contents
- Capture button
Fields
Tap the symbol to the right of the field to add content to the field
Search nodes
- Refresh: Reload results from the server.
- View options: Not available yet. We are still working on bringing all the view settings to mobile.
Links to Tana nodes
Grab a link: Copy a link to any node via long-tap menu, or ellipsis.
Clicking a link: When you're on mobile, tapping a link to a Tana node will open the node in the mobile app
Sign in/out
To sign out, go to Manage > You (your email) > Log out
Once signed out, the screen will ask to sign in to Tana mobile using your existing Tana account.
Related release notes
- FixedPinning nodes on mobile should now put them at the top of the list, like they do when you pin on desktop. ()
- ImprovedAdd option to set Today or Inbox as default node ()
- ImprovedInbox added as one of the default targets ()
- FixedFixed issue where users could not zoom into ghost nodes on iOS application. ()
- FixedFixed issue where users could not unselect an instance field value in the iOS mobile app. ()