Tana Current March 2026
Introducing the new Tana
We're excited to share something we've been working on: a new Tana product built from the ground up for collaboration, agentic work, and a more familiar text editing experience.
At the same time, the product you know today is staying and evolving as Tana Outliner. We’re not replacing the outliner. We’re expanding Tana into two products, each built to serve a different job well. Both products have an important place in Tana's future.
If you love the outliner, keep using it. It's not going anywhere and will continue improving. The new Tana opens up a different way of working, one that's easier to get started with, better for teams, and rethinks what meetings can be.
If you're new to this news, we've written a longer piece about why we're building a new Tana and what it means for the product.
Two products, one vision
From day one, our mission has been to reinvent how humans, teams, and computers work together.
Tana Outliner proved that unstructured information can become a structured, living knowledge graph. For many people, it is already the best way to think, organize, and build a personal system around notes, tasks, and knowledge.
But we also learned something important: the same qualities that make the outliner powerful can make it harder to get started, and harder to use as a shared workspace for teams.
We learned that every time we simplified for new users, we risked taking away the power existing users rely on. So instead of forcing one product to do both jobs imperfectly, we made a clearer choice:
- Tana Outliner will continue as the powerful, flexible tool for people who love working in an outliner and building a deep personal knowledge graph.
- The new Tana is designed to be easier to get started with, better for teams, and built around meetings and conversations that produce output.
Two products, each serving their audience well, rather than one product that compromises for both.
Meetings as work, not just coordination
The new Tana is also a knowledge graph, built from our expertise over the last 6 years, but with a new approach to how knowledge gets captured. It uses meetings and conversations as a way to build and update your knowledge.
Knowledge workers spend tens of thousands of hours in meetings over the course of their careers. Too often, those meetings produce discussion but not momentum. Notes get buried, transcripts go unread, and the actual work happens later—if it happens at all.
We want meetings to become a place where work moves forward immediately.
In the new Tana, meetings are not just something you summarize afterward. They are a place where you can:
- capture bugs, decisions, action items, and follow-ups into your knowledge graph during the conversation, send them directly to tools like Github where Copilot can start work on them
- generate rich artifacts such as storyboards, customer journeys, mind maps, and documentation from the discussion itself
- collaborate with teammates and AI agents in real time, with the meeting becoming part of the work rather than a detached record of it
- use skills to process meetings and work on notes, with a simpler UI that enables real collaboration in teams.
The new Tana includes its own video meeting experience, and it is also being built to capture context from external meeting platforms such as Zoom, Google Meet, and Teams.
This is not a meeting bot layered on top of another tool. It is a new kind of workspace that brings together voice, structured knowledge, graph actions, skills, and agents in one system.
Built for collaboration from the foundation
Starting from a blank page also allowed us to build the new product in a way that delivers several features that the community has long requested, built into the foundation this time:
Canvas
A real-time collaborative canvas for diagrams, drawing, and visual thinking, with live cursors and linked graph content. It also opens the door to AI-generated visualizations from conversations and documents. This was challenging to deliver well in the outliner architecture, so we designed for it from scratch.
Fine-Grained Access Control
Control access at the level of spaces, documents, and shared work, not just the workspace as a whole. Teams will be able to share information with specific collaborators or external viewers with much more precision. Enterprise customers will be able to select which SSO provider team members can log in with.
A more familiar editor
Clearer boundaries around documents and entities, with support for outline-style work inside documents without forcing every interaction into bullet mode. LaTeX, math blocks, and richer block types are available out of the box.
Full revision history and version control
Every meaningful change can be understood semantically, not just as lines added or removed. That makes it easier to review edits, collaborate with AI, and work with suggested changes in a more deliberate way, closer to lightweight version control, without the overhead of Git. Instead of "removed 10 lines and added 5," you'll see "removed two requirements, rephrased the introduction, and changed the due date". This is critical for AI collaboration: agents commit suggested changes rather than editing directly.
Powerful agentic AI Chat
A general-purpose AI chat modelled after best-in-class tools. It supports custom skills, can create, update, move, and research content across your graph, and replaces many ad hoc search node use cases with natural language queries, while still supporting structured, persistent views of your data.
Integrations and API/MCP support
GitHub, Slack, Linear, coding agents (Claude Code, Codex), and MCP connectors for anything else. The new architecture makes thoughtful integrations much easier to build.
Mobile from the start
Designed for mobile from the very beginning, addressing the challenges that made the current mobile experience difficult to evolve. Join meetings from mobile, use the full AI chat and editor on mobile with fast loading time.
What Stays the Same
Even as the product surface changes, the core ideas remain intact.
The new Tana is still grounded in the principles that made Tana valuable in the first place:
- a knowledge graph at the core
- structured content through types
- domain-agnostic flexibility rather than a single fixed workflow
- outline-style editing where it makes sense
- creating and finding things in context across the graph
Tana Outliner: Continued Development
While we are excited about our new ideas, we also want to express that we still love the Tana you currently know and love.
We are renaming the current product to reflect what it already does uniquely well, and we will continue developing it actively. That includes both new capabilities and continued polish, especially around performance, reliability, and everyday friction points.
Focus for Q2 2026
- MCP API fixes and improvements
- Desktop performance improvements (loading, navigation, rendering)
- Grouping improvements (collapsible grouping, hide empty, relative dates, better dragging)
- Core editor bug fixes (cursor jumping, merge behaviors, keyboard shortcuts)
- Better export (building on export as markdown)
- AI chat improvements and updated text processing agent for meeting summaries
- Mobile app improvements (write note option, voice memo improvements, voice chat capture)
On the horizon
These are things we want to explore, but still have unknown complexity. They are candidates for next quarter’s roadmap:
- Support for local AI models
- Canvas exploration
- Better notifications
- Presentation mode
- Search improvements (global search, @mentions, autocomplete, inline references)
- LaTeX and math blocks
- Recurring tasks
- Date field reminders and overdue task support
- Calendar sync improvements (source calendar fields, default duration)
- Transcription custom vocabulary
- NOT filter in searches
- Build title from field improvements
- URL and web previews
Tana Outliner has a dedicated team and will continue to be actively developed with new features. It's been our heart and soul over the last 6 years, and that's not changing. If you love Tana Outliner for its distinct set of features, there's no reason to switch. Lots of the journey still to come.
How the two products fit together
We're working toward one-click migration from Tana Outliner to the new product, hopefully before summer.
The two products will also be able to talk to each other, so you can use Tana Outliner as your private PKM tool and the new Tana for meetings and collaboration. Use one or both, whatever fits your workflow. Both products will offer an MCP too, so it will be possible to develop custom ways to work with data from both products.
Our goal is for the new Tana to eventually offer everything Outliner can do and more. Until it does, Outliner remains the right choice for users who need those capabilities. We will not force a migration.
We'll share pricing details for the new product before public launch, but existing Outliner subscriptions are not changing. What we can also say, is that we will offer existing subscribers a way to try the new Tana without additional cost.
We know many people also have questions about timeline, pricing, and the data model between the two products. Those details matter, and we plan to share more as we get closer to launch, but our goal is that there should be no disruptive, surprising changes.
How can we develop two products with the same team?
In the recent months, the quality of AI for development processes have made strides, and unlocked what can be done with a small team. Our team have long explored who to leverage AI to move faster and build with high quality and security, and we are now at a point where AI augments our engineering workflow, letting us move faster without sacrificing quality. We're also hiring senior engineers, including frontend and deep systems roles.
The next chapter for Tana
This is a big moment for Tana.
We are preserving what makes Tana Outliner special while creating a new product that opens Tana up to collaboration, agentic workflows, and a fundamentally better meeting experience.
- Tana Outliner is here to stay with active development and exciting features ahead
- The new Tana is built for collaboration and ease of use, extending what Tana can do without taking anything away
- You don't have to switch. Use either product, or both, depending on what works for you
- We'll have more to share soon as the new product gets closer to launch
Keep sharing feedback and ideas in the community, it's where everything starts.
Next Tana Current: to be announced in Slack