Tana split into two products and its notes tool got a new address

The setup

Finding the right product is itself the first setup step. The company's own structured page data states that 'Tana' at tana.inc is now 'an agentic meeting platform' for video calls, and explicitly notes 'it is not the Tana outliner / note-taking app (Supertags, nodes); that earlier product was renamed Tana Outliner and lives at a separate site,' outliner.tana.inc. That page states the notes product 'from roughly 2020 to 2024... was simply called Tana' before the split. Tana Outliner's own supertags page describes supertags as 'at the heart of' the product: 'think of them as types or categories: they specify what something is,' from a simple label like #idea up to a structure with fields that behaves like a small app.

What the documents show

Tana Outliner's AI features page states users can 'use supertags to add AI content directly to your workflows,' and describes an autofill feature: 'based on the title of a bug, let the app figure out which feature it relates to, what its priority is, and who it should be assigned to, based on previous bug reports.' That is a description of AI acting on the tagged fields a supertag defines, rather than on an unstructured block of prose, which is the distinction the vendor's own documentation draws. The pricing page confirms the AI features run on a shared, metered allowance: the free plan includes 500 monthly AI credits, with paid Plus and Pro plans offering 2,000 and 5,000, and a choice of underlying models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google on paid tiers.

The friction

Every AI action — meeting transcription, voice notes, image generation, autofill — draws from the same monthly credit pool, so a workspace that leans on one feature heavily can find AI autofill unavailable for the rest of the month; the pricing page states what happens when credits run out is a warning inside the app, not a hard stated cutoff described further here. The company rename adds a second friction: reviews, habits, and documentation written before the split may still refer to 'Tana' without specifying which of the two current products they mean.

What changed in the work

Tagging a note with a supertag turns a line of prose into a typed record with fields the AI features can read and act on, which the vendor's own pages describe as the mechanism behind autofill and structured AI chat, rather than the AI operating on free text the way a general assistant would. Whether that structure is worth the up-front tagging effort for a given workflow is a judgment the documentation leaves to the user.

• Is a note tagged with the fields an AI feature actually needs, or is it still just prose?
• Which shared credit pool does this AI action draw from, and how close is it to running out?
• Which of the two current products does an older mention of 'Tana' actually describe?

A structured tag is only useful if the fields behind it are filled in consistently, and the AI features here are documented as reading that structure, not compensating for its absence.