I’ve been a Tana Outliner user for a while now, so when the team shipped a completely redesigned product, I had to take it for a serious spin. After two deep sessions, here’s my take: the new Tana is one of the most ambitious productivity tools I’ve seen — and it’s already delivering on several of its promises.
A Quieter, Faster Interface
The first thing you notice is how much calmer the interface feels. Gone is the bullet-heavy outliner style. In its place is a cleaner, more focused UI that feels closer to Notion — but with a knowledge graph underneath. Navigation is noticeably faster and smoother, and the document model now properly supports long-form writing instead of treating every line as a separate node.
If you’ve ever tried writing an actual article in an outliner, you’ll appreciate this shift.
The Standout: Voice Agents and Meeting Features
This is where new Tana genuinely surprised me. Solo meetings function as conversations with a personal assistant — one that actually understands your knowledge graph.
During a call, the voice agent can propose types, capture structured items live from the transcript, run skills, and generate artifacts like slides or customer journeys. Say “capture a roadmap item” and it extracts the relevant context from the last two minutes of conversation. There’s also a live digest feature — a real-time, single-line topic summary that tracks the discussion as it happens. I’ve seen it work in a multi-hour in-person workshop with five people.
This isn’t a gimmick. It’s a genuinely useful workflow that makes the knowledge graph feel alive during conversations rather than something you update after the fact.
Integrations and the MCP Play
New Tana ships with built-in integrations for Google Calendar, Outlook, Slack, GitHub, Linear, Jira, and HubSpot — and it supports MCP from day one. External coding tools like Codex, Lovable, and Claude Code can call upon the Tana knowledge graph, which means you can define your concepts centrally in Tana and build from there.
The vision is clear: Tana becomes your single source of truth, and your tools build from it.
Multi-Org Support
You can now create separate organizations for different contexts — day job versus side projects. Data is cleanly fenced between orgs, giving you proper separation. Cross-org task visibility is coming later, which will complete the picture.
A Few Gaps to Watch
It’s still early. A proper table view for structured data isn’t there yet, and some power-user features from the outliner — like stacking multiple types on one entity — haven’t made it over. Recurring tasks and generic HTTP integrations are on the wish list too.
But these feel like “not yet” rather than “never.” The foundation is strong, the team is shipping fast, and the agentic direction is genuinely differentiated.
The Verdict
New Tana is built for the agentic era, and it shows. The meeting features alone set it apart from anything else I’ve used. If you’re interested in what happens when a knowledge graph meets AI agents that can actually read, write, and reason about your data — this is the tool to watch.
I’ll keep using it and keep pushing. Recommended.
