Tana (now Tana Outliner)
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).
Renamed · Verified 2026-10-29 · fresh as of 2026-10-29 · 47 cited facts, 4 with a third-party source · 2 recorded changes · Suggest a correction
At a glance
- Type
- Supertag-based PKM with AI vendor fix
- Tier
- T2
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- Tana Outliner: Free (500 AI credits); Plus $8/mo; Pro $14/mo (yearly saves 22%). Meetings product: Free; Pro ~$20–30; Business from $35/user/mo vendor fix
- Funding
- $40M total Series B · 2025-02 vendor fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-29 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
- Licensing
- commercial vendor fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- relational
- retrieval
- graph-traversal
- persistence
- long-term
- update
- overwrite
- unit
- fact
- governance
- user-controllable
- conflict
- overwrite
When to use
Optimised for: personal-knowledge-management UX + AI-augmented note-taking
Anti-fit: not for enterprise / programmatic use; not for compliance-regulated workloads
Pros & cons
Pros
Supertag + node graph model gives Tana a structurally richer memory substrate than flat-file notes.
Cons
Steep learning curve; smaller user base than Notion / Obsidian; closed system.
Claims & capabilities
Released end-September 2022 (vs Logseq/Obsidian who preceded by 2+ years); rapid PKM-community adoption with vocal advocate base + steady migration from Notion / Roam / Logseq / Obsidian; supernode-based outliner with first-class AI integration; primarily desktop / web
Technical surface
- API surface
- REST (input API)
- Backend storage
- custom
- Deployment
- Managed-only
- Embedding model
- locked
- Multi-tenancy
- hard-isolation
- MCP
- yes — Outliner desktop runs local MCP server (localhost:8262/mcp, free); hosted remote MCP beta at app.tana.inc/mcp on paid plans
- A2A
- searched not found
- OpenTelemetry
- no — consumer product
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Similar systems
Other personal ai / pkm / lifelogging memory in the catalog, ranked by inbound references.
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- Amplenote T2
Tags + bidirectional links + task/calendar integration. "Task Score" priority matrix. AmpleAI plugin supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama.
- Apple Notes + Apple Intelligence T1
Folder + tag hierarchy; iCloud sync. Writing Tools (proofread / rewrite / summarise) across all note content; audio transcription + AI summary; smart search; reminders from to-dos.
- Capacities T2
Object-graph (people, books, projects as typed objects); daily notes; bidirectional links. AI chat grounded in current note; AI property auto-fill; in-editor writing assistant; pattern-finding across objects.
- CORE (RedPlanet) T3
Always-on 'personal AI OS' that indexes email, meetings, GitHub, Linear, Slack and assistant chats into a temporal knowledge graph with fact classification and intent-driven retrieval, plus MCP integrations. reports 88.24% on LoCoMo (vendor claim)
- Craft AI T1
Hierarchical block-based documents + nested pages (no native graph). In-document AI assistant: summarise, rewrite, translate, Q&A over docs, proofread.
Sources (46 cited facts, 4 third-party)
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- What it is Supertag-based PKM with AI vendor
- What it does & what's distinct Tana split in Mar 2026: the supertag-based outliner/PKM is now 'Tana Outliner' at outlin… vendor
- Claims / benefits Released end-September 2022 (vs Logseq/Obsidian who preceded by 2+ years); rapid PKM-com… third-party
- Modalities text vendor
- Created 2024-05 vendor
- Mindshare 4 HN stories; Tana Inc.; ~15 employees per public job listings third-party
- Funding $40M total Series B · 2025-02 vendor
- Customers / scale 11-50 ppl no data (160K+ waitlist) vendor
- Pricing Tana Outliner: Free (500 AI credits); Plus $8/mo; Pro $14/mo (yearly saves 22%). Meeting… vendor
- Compliance GDPR-compliant; contractual prohibition on providers using customer data for model train… vendor
- Data handling Never trains on customer data (contractual obligation with all AI providers; GDPR-compli… vendor
- Deployment Managed-only vendor
- HQ NO third-party
- Founders / pedigree Tarjei Munthe Vassbotn (CEO; ex-Google), Olav Sindre Kriken, Grim Iversen; Oslo Norway third-party
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim vendor
- API surface REST (input API) vendor
- Backend storage custom vendor
- Multi-tenancy hard-isolation vendor
- Encryption at-rest + in-transit vendor
- Embedding model locked vendor
- Tombstoning hard-delete supported vendor
- Schema evolution schema with migration vendor
- Namespace primitives per-tenant vendor
- Contradiction handling always overwrite (last-write-wins) vendor
- Forgetting policy user-controlled forget vendor
- MCP support yes — Outliner desktop runs local MCP server (localhost:8262/mcp, free); hosted remote M… vendor
- OTel no — consumer product vendor
- Webhooks / events webhooks supported (Tana Publish) vendor
- Import / export JSON / OPML export vendor
- Validated verticals consumer / individual (knowledge workers, students, researchers) vendor
- Time to running <10min (hosted SaaS sign-up or app download) vendor
- Anti-fit not for enterprise / programmatic use; not for compliance-regulated workloads vendor
- Optimised for personal-knowledge-management UX + AI-augmented note-taking vendor
- Adjacent infrastructure self-contained app; some require iCloud / Google Drive vendor
- Pros Supertag + node graph model gives Tana a structurally richer memory substrate than flat-… vendor
- Cons Steep learning curve; smaller user base than Notion / Obsidian; closed system. vendor
- Project & sources tana.inc knowledge graph page vendor
- cost-input-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-output-usd-per-mtok 0 vendor
- cost-tier free vendor
- cost-pricing-model free-tier vendor
- cost-last-verified 2026-06-29 vendor
- architecture-deployment-locus cloud vendor
- licensing-bucket commercial vendor
- positioning-platform-vs-product product vendor
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo
What changed
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- 2026-10-23
- Name “Tana” → “Tana (now Tana Outliner)”
- Homepage “https://tana.inc/” → “https://outliner.tana.inc/”
- 2026-10-22
- Pricing “Free + paid” → “Tana Outliner: Free (500 AI credits); Plus $8/mo; Pro $14/mo (yearly saves 22%). Meetings product: Free; Pro ~$20–30; Business from $35/user/mo” source
- MCP support first recorded as “yes — Outliner desktop runs local MCP server (localhost:8262/mcp, free); hosted remote MCP beta at app.tana.inc/mcp on paid plans” source