One node, found in many places

Three places to pin

Every pin row lives in ⌘K, under Current node. Type pin with the caret in a node, or on its page, and you see them all.

Sidebar and day pins are personal: nobody else sees them, and you can pin a node you can only read. A pin on a meeting is part of that meeting, so it is shared with its people.

Pinning never moves or copies the node. It stays where it lives, and unpinning only takes away the pointer.

Pin to the sidebar

The sidebar is Tana's own list of your favourite places, the same one you see at home.tana.inc. Open ⌘K Edit pins and choose Pin to sidebar; it is listed there, on the page that shows all of a node's pins.

A pinned node carries a small tack among its grey facts, wherever it is listed. Click the tack to open Edit pins for it.

Pin to a day

Pin to today and Pin to tomorrow put the node on that day. Once it is there, the row reads Unpin from today and takes it off again, so one recorded key does both. When the node is pinned to that day for everyone, unpinning mutes it for you alone.

Where day pins show up

Tasks pinned to today, or to an earlier day while still open, fill Today's Tasks at the top of the Timeline. A task list grouped by Responsibility gathers them in a Pinned section, each with its days on the grey line: "Pinned to Today · 2026-09-30".

Edit pins

⌘K Edit pins shows every place the node is pinned: the sidebar, each day, each meeting. Its hint in ⌘K already says it, such as "Sidebar, 1 date", or "Not pinned".

↩ on a pin takes it off, and the page stays open for the next one. Under Pin it are the places it is not pinned yet: Pin to sidebar, Pin to today, Pin to tomorrow and Pin to meeting …. Typing narrows both halves; with nothing left the page says "No pin matches" or "Not pinned anywhere". Type sidebar and ↩ pins it there: the highlight starts on the row your words found, not on that grey line.

Pin to a meeting

A meeting has pinned items of its own: the documents and tasks it is about. Two rows add to them.

• Pin to current meeting pins the node on the meeting you have joined right now. Its hint names the meeting, or says "No active meeting" and stays grey.
• Pin to meeting … lets you choose: your meetings from a week back to a week ahead, the next one first. Type to narrow, ↩ pins.

The pinned node then shows on the meeting's page, in the Pinned section of its Graph pane, for everyone in the meeting. Spaces keep pins the same way. Taking one off goes through Edit pins and needs permission to change that meeting. Meetings tells the rest.

Today and This week

Besides pins, Orbital keeps a page per day and per week, the way many people keep a daily note. ⌘K Today, or ⌃⇧D, opens today's page, titled with the date (2026-09-30). This week opens the week's page, such as "Week 40 (2026)". Each is made the first time you ask for it.

Add to Today

With the caret on a node, ⌘K Add to Today writes a line into today's page that points at it. Add to Tomorrow and Add to This Week do the same for those pages. With rows selected they read Add 3 items to Today.

The tasks on today's page count as Today's Tasks on the Timeline, done ones included.

Dates in your notes

A date can live in the text itself. Type @ and then a day in words, like friday or 12 oct. Words that read as a day put that date first in the list; ↩ writes it as a date chip, such as "Oct 2, 2026". It reads the same words as Pin to date ….

A date chip is a link like any other mention; Writing in the outline covers @ in full.

Keys in this chapter