🧠 Complete Second Brain System in Tana

In this video I show you every part of my complete Second Brain system in Tana!

00:00 - Intro
04:04 - Agenda and GTD
06:41 - Task Inbox & Quick Entry
09:07 - Voice Capture & AI Tasks
10:30 - Priority Projects
11:14 - Current Cycles
12:15 - Current Experiments
13:20 - Readwise
15:51 - Fleeting Notes
16:23 - Sidebar Dashboards
16:36 - Horizons
17:04 - PARA
17:10 - Projects
18:44 - Areas
19:47 - Goals
21:08 - Resources/Topics
22:19 - Assets
23:08 - Archives
24:15 - Interstitial Journaling
25:49 - Zettelkasten
27:40 - Bookshelf
27:57 - Research with Question, Claim, Evidence
31:56 - People
32:43 - Journal
33:00 - Year in Review
33:23 - Outro and Tanarian Brain

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[cortexfuturatools]

There's an audio issue at 6:50 that lasts for about 30 seconds – so sorry I didn't catch that in QA!
Also: there's a sidebar view shown that isn't yet released to everyone, I suggest you use the Tabs view in the places where I use that view. Whoops 🙈

[mgsblackhawk]

I started watching your videos and leaning more about Tana and I must say I'm stoked by it . I'm an avid(hardcore) Notion user, but started to hype about Tana and Heptabase recently.

One thing about Tana to me is that the Outline paradigm seems to take the long format notes away.
As a Software Engineer, it's common for me to add system design notes, troubleshooting sections or overall service's notes.

How do you setup/mold your mindset so to transcribe from one to another (maybe not so much Tana question lol) .

Right now I do use P.A.R.A system within Notion, along side with Wiki structure for trainings and courses I take, and sparse notes about 1:1/Meeting notes

I like Notion, but sometimes I feel I'm working for the tool, not the way around.

I'm currently evaluating other options, being Tana and Heptabase my top 2, so any words of wisdom would be super appreciated :)

[jiangsir]

I feel a little bit complicated, but there are still many things that can be learned from it. Thank you for sharing.

[nielsteunis]

This is very exciting. and of course, one of the people to thank should be David Allen himself, if we're talking GTD :)

[jens]

Thanks for sharing. Really helpful to get started with tara

[grantgochnauer]

This looks extremely well thought out and implemented. Since Tana is evolving quickly, how are you managing updates and distributing those to buyers of Tanarian Brain? Thanks!

[martinmeier]

Wow, what a system you built here! This is awesome. How do you determine what goes in the Do Next Tab of your GTD Dashboard?

[Martin]

Awesome video! Is it possible to create an overview page collecting all tasks from different pages? This is not possible on Notion.

[nikkihuang]

Great videos Lukas, thank you! Some questions:

1. Why do you have a Title field for #sources - isn't it redundant since the Title should be the same as the parent node? If having the title field is actually useful, how can we get it to autofill to = parent node (the node tagged #book, for instance)

2. As a researcher, how do you determine when to use Zettlekasten vs QEC systems? I'm thinking QEC for academic papers and Zettlekasten for other-interests reading. What do you think?

3. The QEC system/supertags here seems the same as those from your MTC course, right? If so, how would you suggest integrating across systems - e.g. go through all existing #question (mtc) and change supertag to #question (tanarian brain)?

Thanks!

[Staxman-oloq]

Hi. what would be the best supertag to tag a job meeting where different projects where discussed?

[walterh.schreiber]

Does the template work with the free plan? Thanks & Cheers

[TrendyTrendyTrendy]

In your projects dashboard you have a sidebar containing active projects, project backlog, someday etc... How did you set this up?

I've used tabbed view to create horizontal tabs, but never seen these tabs presented vertically before?

[HowardKline]

Sounds very interesting but I can’t buy anything for Tana since I haven’t been approved yet for the beta. Any help getting approved would be greatly appreciated.

[matthewthomaslabelle]

Great video! I know how to build title from fields but I don't know how you are able to only display a portion of the field name. For example for Tasks and Goals, your title only shows the emoji of the status and not the remaining text of the field. How was that done?

[ogdanem]

Very nice system. You have invested lots of thinking in it. I'm still unclear about the specific advantages of Tana compared to other note-taking tools like OneNote or Evernote. As far as I can see, those tools can achieve similar functionality, and might even be easier to use. Currently, Tana seems unfinished and underdeveloped. To help me understand the value of Tana, could you please provide specific examples of its unique features and benefits that are not available in other tools? This would be helpful in clarifying why Tana might be a better choice for certain situations.

[SimplifySimplify]

I do not have the Agenda in the Day node of my copy of Tanarian Brain, but that seems very useful. Do you have a set up for that? 4:10

[GLuft]

What’s going on with audio around 6:50?

[dragonmax]

What the hell is Tana and why can't I find a single link as to how to sign up for it?

[nicobaier]

Wait how did you get the horizontal tabs?

[phinsxiii]

Until Tana does something seriously in Mobile other than basic capture, this app is useless to me.