Welcome to the first newsletter about all things supertag-cli, its future and what’s happening.

I have experimented with writing a course and I’m happy to give you the first installment: Bridge your Tana: Essentials — free access, no strings attached.

What's covered:
- Installing and configuring supertag-cli
- Automated Tana backups
- Connecting your data to Claude Desktop / Cursor

Takes about 30 minutes. By the end, your Tana data works outside of Tana.

Get access: https://courses.invisible.ch/courses/bridge-your-tana

Enter your email → you'll get a login link.

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supertag-cli updates (last 2 weeks)

A lot shipped since v1.8.0:

New features:
- Attachment extraction — Download all your images, PDFs, audio files from Tana. supertag attachments extract pulls them to a local folder. Filter by type or tag.
- Graph traversal — Find related nodes with supertag graph. Follow connections in your data.
- One-line install — Setup is now just one command line call - check https://projects.invisible.ch/supertag for details

Fixes:
- supertag tags list now shows correct node counts (was always showing 1)
- Field values with multiple inline references no longer get truncated
- Claude Desktop MCP integration works properly now (Zod bundling fix)
- Windows: database locking fixed, LanceDB lazy-loaded

Currently at v1.9.5. Update with supertag update install (and let me know if it works, I have seen problem reports but unable to fix them yet).

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Where should supertag-cli go next?

Tana teased MCP functionality in today's release notes. If they ship native MCP support, that changes the landscape — the "AI bridge" use case might become built-in.

So I'm thinking about where supertag-cli should focus:

- Backups & portability — Your data, exported and versioned, independent of Tana
- Advanced queries — SQL access, semantic search, things Tana won't do natively
- Automation — Scripts, CI/CD, batch operations on your graph
- Something else?

What's most valuable to you? Reply and let me know — genuinely curious what you'd miss if supertag-cli disappeared tomorrow.

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One thing I'd love feedback on: the format of the course.

I went with mostly text and screenshots rather than video. My take: video courses aren't searchable, take forever to get through, and you can't skim. Reading is faster. (And also: Creating them is a lot of work)

But I might be wrong. What do you prefer? Hit reply and let me know — it'll shape how I build the next modules.

Thanks for your interest in Supertag, the toolkit for Tana

— Jens-Christian