Release notes

2025 / wk 03 / v. 380-381

  • ImprovedMade progress bar work in sidebar, tabs and cards view
    • Checkbox nodes
  • ImprovedTana Paste now supports headings. Start the node with !!
  • ImprovedWe now use Tana headings when appropriate for content received from AI (you can ask for "Markdown headers" explicitly in your prompt if you want)
  • ImprovedWe have added meta-prompt generation for the generate image dialogue (ie. we first ask GPT to rewrite to a more complete prompt, before generating the image) which gives better results. We also stopped writing the result of the meta-prompt generation into the description of images, when using the Generate image with DALL-E command node.
  • FixedFixed bug where AI-generated images could not be shown full screen.
  • FixedPinning nodes on mobile should now put them at the top of the list, like they do when you pin on desktop.
  • FixedFixed bugs where newly created fields showed empty for Field type, and showed that Semantic function was turned on (it wasn't actually, the display was wrong)
  • FixedFixed bug where code blocks where default collapsed

2025 / wk 02 / v. 374-379

  • NewAdded Github and Microsoft as sign-in options
  • ImprovedTana Templates update: 1. Use the new command called "Publish template" on a node in a read-only workspace to create a static preview page (like Tana Publish Pages) that you can share with anyone, 2. Like Tana Publish Pages, the static page does not reflect changes to the template until you hit publish again. This is different from the original way of sharing templates via a special URL, which pointed directly to the Tana node, making it hard to "stage" changes, 3. Templates can now be installed directly from within the iOS mobile app.
  • ImprovedTana Publish updates: 1. A byline option has been added to Publish. It can show an author name, title and image as well as the publish date, 2. Added option for heading font style – defaults to sans. Control it separately from text font style, 3. Changed serif font to Source Serif, 4. Various minor typography and layout adjustments
  • ImprovedTana Publish toolbar updates: 1. Added copy link button, 2. Updated layout and icons to improve usability, 3. Added missing feedback on some actions, 4. Updated wording on some actions.
  • ImprovedA new command 'Copy published link' will, on published nodes, do just that. Also available in the context menu for published nodes.
  • ImprovedHold Shift when executing "Hard delete including references" to skip the "Are you sure?" dialog.
  • ImprovedYou can now reprocess a voice memo in the browser/desktop client by running the Cmd/Ctrl+K command "Reprocess voice memo". Useful if something went wrong or wrong language was selected.
  • ImprovedCustom Autofill improvements: 1. AI instructions for the title, 2. AI instructions for the description, 3. Actually support autofill description when enabled (disabled by default), 4. Update the default values in the configuration panel for custom autofill behavior to reflect the actual defaults and resolve the bug with toggling those values.
  • ImprovedCustom Autofill improvements for voice memo only: 1. Toggle to include or exclude for autofill, 2. AI instructions for content and support for autofilling based on that.
  • FixedExclude references to nodes from node filter from auto-collected options on option fields.

2024 / wk 50 / v. 373

  • ImprovedPasting a Tana node or a link to a Tana node while text is selected, turns the selected text into an inline link to the node (similar to what happens if you paste an external URL over selected text)
  • ImprovedWhen copying text from Tana as HTML (Cmd/Ctrl+C on a node or selection), URL nodes will now be turned into proper HTML links

2024 / wk 47-49 / v. 363-372

  • NewIntroducing a new progress bar indicator, that will show number of checkboxes done/not done below the node. It will auto-show when adding a checkbox below a node, or can be enabled with command "Toggle Progress bar". Docs coming!
  • NewGamechanger?? New commands to be run on tag template: "Convert template node to field" + "convert template field to node". What this does: Inside the content section of a supertag config, you can now convert fields to nodes, and nodes to fields. These will update the tag template / 'content', and all nodes that have already been tagged and 'initialized' with this tag template. Fields with values / content will be turned into nodes with children, nodes with children will be turned into fields with values.
  • NewThere is now a command to update existing instances when you change the default field value in a tag template
  • ImprovedAdd option to set Today or Inbox as default node
  • ImprovedInbox added as one of the default targets
  • ImprovedWe cleaned up the way referenced nodes and search node results are sent in AI chat, and fixed a few bugs. We'd love to hear reports if AI chat is still not giving you the results you expect.
  • ImprovedWe've now simplified the AI chat prompt for chats without references to Tana nodes. We welcome feedback about the quality of interactions with the AI chat.
  • ImprovedYou can now use Draft panel as the Target node all command nodes that support Target node (press space to choose), which will open an ephemeral panel to the right with the output, with the option to move or insert in daily node
  • ImprovedRemoved global system prompt from Ask AI, no longer necessary given improved LLM models.
  • ImprovedNew prompt expressions for source (like raw transcript of voice memo): ${sys:source} for the source, and ${sys:sourceOrContent} will insert the source, or content (node children) if there is no source node.
    • Ai command nodes
  • ImprovedWe now automatically create a new checkboxed item when you hit enter at the end of one checkboxed item. A simple backspace will remove the checkbox on the new node.
  • ImprovedRewrite as - should now be more likely to use the same language in the output as the transcript
  • ImprovedButtons in the panel header are now right aligned instead of left aligned, and showing only the source material icon, not text.
  • FixedFixed issue with parsing single character link aliases in Tana Paste
  • FixedFixed bug where command line commands for expand and collapse children were not available on some nodes
  • FixedFixed bug where Generate image was not available on calendar nodes
  • InfoAdded GPT4o-2024-11-20 as a model choice (not yet default model)
  • FixedFixed issue where users could not zoom into ghost nodes on iOS application.
  • FixedFixed bug where a reference to the Trash node itself looked like the node was "in trash".
  • FixedFixed issue where users could not unselect an instance field value in the iOS mobile app.
  • FixedFixed bug where Transcribe Youtube video command didn't recognize certain valid Youtube URLs

2024 / wk 45-46 / v. 359-362

  • ImprovedUpdated look and feel of template preview
  • ImprovedGreatly improved CPU/GPU usage on search nodes in related content
  • FixedSearching for a field that is of datatype=checkbox without checking the box will now only return nodes with that field unchecked. Previously every node even without this field would be returned. Oops.
  • FixedOnly show 'Unshare' for published read-only workspaces on the home node.
  • FixedFix system theme dark/light mode on desktop app

2024 / wk 44 / v. 356-358

  • ImprovedThe speed of opening big lists and tables are now much improved.
  • FixedFixed issue where some nodes in the sidebar was default expanded
  • FixedFix issue where second right click didn't open native context menu on nodes in fields
  • FixedFixed bug where a search node with "DATE OVERLAPS" would sometimes crash the panel
  • FixedWe don't allow you to easily set an icon on the system-level supertag anymore (which caused every supertag without an icon to get that icon)
  • FixedTemplate bundle installer popup screen no longer closes if you click outside the popup.
  • FixedFixed an issue where template installer could sometimes show up off-center and outside of the viewport
  • FixedPutting a filter on a non-search node with references would actually remove the references from that node 😬 Now we don't do this anymore.
  • InfoInitial sorting of groups when Grouping by Workspace now follows the order of the workspaces in the sidebar. (Note that this is not responsive, if you want it updated, you need to turn off grouping and turn it back on again)
  • InfoWe now hide first/last page button in pager menu if there's less than 5 pages
  • InfoWe have renamed the search operator "FROM CAPTURE" to "FROM MOBILE" (the old one will still work for backwards compatibility)
  • InfoThere is now a warning in the supertag config if you have some owned nodes in a supertag that cause Tana to create a lot of new nodes for every new tagged node. We are still trying to refine this so if you get a warning you think is surprising/unreasonable, reach out to the team.

2024 / wk 43 / v. 354-355

  • ImprovedSidebar pinned nodes and workspaces improvements: 1. Expand/collapse pinned nodes, 2. Distinguish template tags and added create new instance button, 3. Remove unpin button, available from right click, 4. Unified appearance and functionality, 5. Minor layout and style tweaks for clarity
  • ImprovedWe renamed "Remove reference" to "Unpin" on pinned nodes in the context menu, and removed the "Rename" option, since it did not work well with complex node names.
  • ImprovedWe made it easier to remove external references directly from the preview when sharing a Tana Template
  • ImprovedRe-ordered instance supertag context menu. Now we show 1. Instance options, 2. Navigation targets 3. Tag options
  • FixedNodes in related content were not showing the correct context menu on right-click. Now they are!
  • FixedFixed bug where right-clicking on bullet in column header in table did not show context menu
  • FixedRe-introduced: Right click when node options context menu is already open opens the native context menu. Now we can fix our spellng errors again!
  • FixedFixed issue with field not getting focus when clicking hidden field. Sorry and you're welcome!

2024 / wk 42 / v. 353

  • ImprovedWhen you right-click a node now, you see a context menu instead of the toolbar. We've also added context menus on right-click to several places, like related content headers, panel headers, and breadcrumb items.
  • FixedWe fixed keyboard shortcuts for Open daily node (ctrl+shift+d) and Next/Previous calendar node (ctrl+[/ctrl+]) when on a reference
  • FixedDragging images to upload a new banner to a node was broken, it's fixed now.
  • FixedFixed at least two edge cases where the new implementation of default field values in supertags broke adjacent workflows
  • 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.

2024 / wk 39-41 / v. 344-352

  • NewWe have fullscreen preview! Expand image nodes by hitting <space> while it's focused. Use the previous/next buttons to navigate to the previous or next image in the list.
  • ImprovedFullscreen preview now supports video nodes, in addition to image nodes. It works just like images, and will autoplay when viewed.
  • ImprovedWe have simplified the transcript format to just be plain nodes instead of being visualized as a "chat".
  • FixedFixed bug where auto-init from ancestor field would create a reference to a an inline date instead of inserting the actual inline date.
  • Fixed@-mentions will now only show recently opened nodes from workspaces you have "allowed content from".
  • FixedDragging cards and columns in a grouped Cards view should now properly stick to the cursor position. This was looking a bit different across browsers but now should work the same in Chromium based browsers, Safari and Firefox.