Friday, October 21, 2022
Good morning. It's 4:15 am and here I am again.
What about Tana?
I believe that Tana is the next evolutionary jump in the world of note-taking tools. It has "Supertags", backlinks, inheritance, ontologies, etc. I mean, what Thought Leader in their right mind wouldn't trip over themselves to go all-in and, at the very least, start a YouTube channel telling everyone how they manage their interstitial journaling and meditation practices using a clever combination of, oh never mind. Apparently no one has ever heard of Tinderbox. Tinderbox is a better outliner, a better note-taking app, and a better publishing tool than Tana dreams of being. It has all of the fancy ontology bits that Tana has, and more. Other than cloud access and multi-user features, there's nothing new here.
I'm not being fair to Tana. It is very good, and I really do think it's the way forward. It makes Roam look like nothing more than a proof-of-concept for what Tana is. Also, it's much more immediately accessible than Tinderbox for most people. It's just that I wish people wouldn't go on like all this stuff has never been done before.
I haven't decided whether I'll continue using Tana, but you're damn straight I'll continue using Tinderbox.
I don't want another blog
I don't want another blog, but I seem have one anyway. Or, more accurately, I've re-purchased the baty.blog domain and am using that with my old Tinderbox-managed blog. It's not technically a new blog, then. It's an old blog that has been resurrected. I have no idea if it'll stay, or why I'm doing it, so you might not want to get comfortable.
I will say that the way I've built this using Tinderbox is exactly how I want my blog to work. I get individual posts, grouped by day. Each post can display a title, or not. It can have a "featured image", or not. It can be crossposted via RSS, or not (this post is, for example). I have attributes for the current weather, Topics, etc.
Plus, it's fun! I don't feel I need to make excuses for having fun :).