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Moving from Obsidian to Tana?
When I moved my notes database from Roam Research to Obsidian earlier this year, I expected I’d stay there for quite a while. Obsidian is a great tool, and I spoke about the reasons for my move in that earlier post.
Now, more quickly than I expected, I’m moving everything over to Tana. What is Tana, and why would I do that?
At its core, Tana is another note-taking app, but it does it in a way that hasn’t really been seen before. Until Tana came around, there were really three types of note-taking apps:
- Simple note apps, like Google Keep and Apple Notes.
- Graph-style apps like Roam Research and Obsidian, that helped to interconnect your notes.
- Data-focused apps like Notion and Airtable that let you build powerful tables and charts.
While Google Keep will likely be my “quick notes” app of choice for years to come, Tana is the first great app I’ve seen that tries to combine the graph and data types of notes. There are a lot of videos out there that show how it works, but this one from Shu Omi is a solid overview:
