May 2025 update (not a basic/general review—this is for current Tana users) I want to make sure folks don’t just see old reviews and think this is a super limited app compared to desktop—yes, there’s a ways to go, but since its rollout they’ve added basic references and in-line editing! It’s a solid MOBILE-first experience imho. Capture is just as quick and seamless as with the Tana Capture app, but now there’s solid ways to add structured data to your captures from mobile (most field types) and then edit/modify those captures. Plus, you can just start editing on the fly from any node in the app (Today, Home, a specific supertag, etc.). What I’d love to seeGive Tana AI some love on mobile…it’s there in the app’s tagline. There’s a good but limited feature set that uses AI for voice memos, but seeing a more robust, novel, mobile-first implementation of AI would make Tana a cut above the rest.

I tried so many different task manager, PKM and Notes apps over the years to the point that I even gave up for a while and just used paper but this … This changed everything. Tana’s ability to customize and automate how my brain needs it to be is literally everything. No more wishing for this feature or that feature from different apps, all the right features are just a command configuration away and I’m blown away by how (relatively) simple they made it. I won’t lie, you need to be motivated and curious to set yourself up right, but it’s so worth it. I’m all in… thank you Tana!!

I bounced around tools for my whole life and this is the only one I’ve stuck with for multiple years. The app keeps getting amazing updates.

Unless I’m totally missing something, there’s no simple way just to sit down (eg on an iPad) and add notes and/or organize thoughts you’ve been building up inside a Workspace. Instead, this app is just a glorified ‘capture tool’… a voice recorder when on-the-go. Perhaps the design concepts were to “streamline” the user experience by focusing on that, but honestly, they could’ve simply added one more tab at the top just to let you work with your data - IMHO unnecessarily crippling useful access to your data, and instead forcing you to operate inside a web browser. Not a fan of that limited view.