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Tana Systems Lab: Daily Review

​AI workflows get better when they have better context. Not just more data, but more structured, relevant context about what you’re doing, what matters, and what has actually been happening across your day.

In this session, I’ll show how I’ve been using a daily review skill to backfill meaningful context into my Tana system, so it becomes more useful for reflection, planning, and agent-driven workflows.

We’ll focus on:
- setting up a daily review skill that backfills your Tana system with useful context
- deciding what kinds of context are actually worth capturing for your workflows
- how other activity sources, from lightweight app-usage logs to richer memory tools, can extend the system

The core idea is simple: the more structured context you capture, the more effective your AI workflows can become. Daily review becomes a practical way to feed that system, fill in missing context, and create a more useful record over time.