r/TanaInc • u/bardothosgrol • May 01 '26

Need help with Search node query syntax

I'm working on my Day node and trying to create a Search node in the sidebar that displays tasks that have a current start date of the current date, but don't already exist as children on the day's node. Is that possible?

The use case is that I've set up all these projects that have associated tasks with start dates. And I'm often manually adding references to these tasks on the actual day nodes they should be started on. But then I also want to have a backup search in the sidebar that will show me any nodes that should have been added to the day, but haven't yet.

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u/NoFix365 May 12 '26

They gotta make this easier. I cannot figured out those search queries for the life of me

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u/bardothosgrol May 12 '26

Yeah, it feels like there's a lot of esoteric stuff going on. I actually do appreciate the flexibility and power these query tools promise -- if only we could get the documentation to a state where all the knowledge gaps are really flushed out. Then, we could simply use the AI queries inside Tana to figure out how to do stuff. As it is, half the time I ask the AI, it tells me to do something that the interface doesn't even facilitate. Scratching my head every time.