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Tana mobile

Tana on Mobile lets you quickly capture thoughts, ideas and notes, access and edit your notes on the go. Turn voice memos into structured content with powerful Supertag workflows.

Overview

Tana mobile screenshots on the App Store

Tana mobile allows you to capture your thoughts to the graph, and—for the first time ever—view all your information from the app.

Download Tana Mobile on iOS

Download Tana Mobile on Android

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.
  • Editing nodes: Tap on the content of a node to go into edit mote. You can then edit existing content, add content, tag and create references.

Detail

Browse

Access common places in your Tana.

Browse tab
  1. Home: Takes you to the home node of your workspace
  2. Today: Takes you to your current day page
  3. 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

Supertag tab
  1. Filter: Find the tag you're looking for with the filter
  2. Pinned: Pinned tags are up top
  3. Tiles: Tap on the tiles to go to the supertag page
  4. Voice: Tap on the voice icon to record a memo using this supertag

Capture

Menu for capturing content to Tana

Capture tab

Destination

Select Today, Inbox, or Pinned nodes as the destination

  • Choose between Today and Inbox as the default destination by long-pressing on "Inbox"

Supertags

Choose the supertag you want to add to your captured content

For voice memos 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.
    • Open Voice in the Capture tab, tap the language button to change language.
  • Control Buttons
    • Cancel: Left button discards the memo.
    • Send: Blue button sends memo to Tana.
    • Pause/Resume: Right button pauses/resumes recording.

Read more about how to use mobile voice memos to get content structured.

Search for any node in your Tana

  • Tap the search result to look at it
  • See recent searches

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:

  1. Go back: navigate to the previous view
  2. Breadcrumbs: navigate to a higher part of the tree
  3. Ellipsis menu:
    1. Copy link copies the URL to that node
    2. Pin adds node to pinned list
  4. Edit: Available as an Early Access feature in iOS version 1.4.3.
    1. Go to the "Manage" tab and toggle the Early Access option on to use it
  5. Node header with title, banner and tags (if applicable)
  6. Node contents
  7. 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.

Edit nodes

If you need to change existing notes, add new notes, add a tag or create a reference, you can navigate to the node you want to change and then tap on the content to go into Edit mode. You can also tap the "Edit" button on the top of the menu.

You will see a "Done" button on the top, that you can tap when you are done editing. When you are not in Edit mode, you tapping nodes will zoom in to them.

While in edit mode you can

  • indent/outdent
  • Create checkboxes
  • Add, remove or change supertags
  • Create references - you'll be able to search for the nodes you want to reference

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 in another app 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.