How To Migrate From Notion To Tana

Ev Chapman

December 26, 2022

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If you're a Notion user and you've been bitten by the Tana bug, but when you opened up Tana wondered - what the heck do you do... then I've got you covered.

In today's video, I'm going to show you how to take your Notion databases and recreate them in Tana. Plus I'll talk through some of the similarities, and differences and what to do if you get stuck.

Timestamps:

‍00:00 Introduction

02:32 2x Mindset Shifts To Make

04:40 Creating databases in Tana

9:11 Creating Views in Tana

15:45 The Daily Page

16:38 - Scheme & Library

18:08 What You'll Miss

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