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Tana Tips 009: So many tips!
Hey Reader,
in the first edition of Tana Tips this year I'm very happy to send you a whole truckload of tips and tricks that I've published in video or Twitter thread form over the last couple of weeks.
The most recent video is the one below, where I take you on a deep-dive of Tana's live searches, showing you exactly how to take advantage of the PARENT and PARENTS_DESCENDANTS class of search operators. Enjoy!
As we're at the start of a new year I thought it would also be useful to share my personal planning system with you and how I've set it up in Tana. I plan in six-week cycles (which I call Macro Cycles), four of which make up a Super Cycle (roughly half a year).
If that sounds interesting, check the video below:
On thing I really enjoyed last year was Tana's release of semantic field functions. What sounds like a mouthful is one of the biggest under-the-radar releases they could have done – I'll explain more in the video below. You can activate semantic field functions in Tana Labs if you want to try it out.
A couple of weeks back I also jumped on the ChatGPT wagon and tried to figure out how to use AI to build my supertags. It's not something that I'm doing every day, but it was fun to play with to bleeding-edge platforms like Tana and ChatGPT at once. If that sound interesting to you, check below:
Apart from videos I've also been busy writing Twitter threads.
Here are a couple that I wrote this month:
- Avoid High-Modernist Design in Your Knowledge Base
- How I do Mobile Quick Capture in Tana
- Things I Hope Tana Builds Soon
- Make Predictions And Review Them
- Big Tana Update: You Can Now Merge Nodes
Finally, many people have reached out to ask whether I still have invites available as part of a purchase of my course Mastering Tana Core. I'm very happy to report that I do!
If you want to skip Tana's waitlist and learn how to build your own custom supertag systems, join Mastering Tana Core here.
I'm really looking forward to this year, there are some great things in store for everything Tana.
Warmly,
Lukas / CortexFutura
CortexFutura
I help you become a Tana and develop strong Knowledge Operations to turn information into action.
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