Tana (now Tana Outliner) alternatives
Tana split in Mar 2026: the supertag-based outliner/PKM is now 'Tana Outliner' at outliner.tana.inc, while tana.inc is a separate agentic meeting platform sharing a knowledge graph. Outliner keeps Tana AI on nodes (chat with notes, summaries, automations). Full Tana (now Tana Outliner) record →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (relational, graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (fact, document) · also offered managed · also has MCP
OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (relational, graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal, similarity) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (fact, document) · also offered managed
OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (document) · also offered managed
OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (relational) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (document) · also offered managed · also has MCP
OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ✓ Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (relational, graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal, similarity) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (fact) · also offered managed
OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal, similarity) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (document) · also offered managed
OSS ✓ Self-host ✓ Managed ✓ MCP ? ★ 1.5k MIT Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (graph) · same retrieval (graph-traversal, similarity) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (document) · also offered managed
OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP ? Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
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also in Personal AI / PKM / lifelogging memory · same storage (relational) · same retrieval (similarity) · same conflict handling (overwrite) · same memory unit (document) · also offered managed
OSS ? Self-host — Managed ✓ MCP — Compare with Tana (now Tana Outliner) →
Ranked by shared memory design (storage, retrieval, conflict handling, memory unit), same section and shared must-haves (open source, self-hosting, MCP), with adoption as a tie-breaker. ✓ confirmed · — no · ? not in the catalog yet. Want picks for your own requirements? Use the chooser. Checking a whole project? Check your stack.