What's better than having a tool for tracking each and every deed of your day to day life and keep a track of it than Coda. Coda has tons of features that has helped me in being a better version of myself. It features like To-do lists helps me in performing effectively and doing my pending tasks, its expense tracker tool has helped me in significantly decreasing unrequired expenses and save more, its focus timer has helped me in increasing my focus and sit to work for more duration. Its benefits are numerous and can't be described in a single-go. It has truly benefitted me personally.
At times when I am busy and forget to organize the documents, Coda does not automatically organize the documents as well as the content stored in the documents. Doing this would have helped me really. To improve my professional field, I decided to integrate it with other platforms like Zapier and more but the integration flexibility of the platform as for me was not up to the mark.
Coda is truly an exceptional and useful platform not only for enterprises but also for individuals out there, who are looking to optimize their day-to-day tasks and work. Coda has tons of features and functions like to-do lists and more that helps me in keeping a track of the tasks I need to perform as well as notify my team about the pending and upcoming tasks. The expense tracker feature not only helps me in keeping a track of my personal expenses but also my operating expenses as well. I used this to calculate the expenses incurred while organizing an event, and keep it within my budget. The final outcome of the expense tracker and its analysis, and the original expenses are same and truly efficient. So overall, Coda has been a game changer for me professionally and personally.
The formulas allow me to do just about anything I can imagine. Not just sums and averages, either. You can display information, even make your own charts from scratch, or set an item's value based on its distant parents' values.
A doc can get pretty slow if you have a lot of data plus a lot of formulas. There are ways to make your formulas more efficient, but I am not advanced enough to know that stuff.
Spreadsheets are too stiff and stale. But apps are too opinionated, unintentionally forcing a certain methodology by their very structure (eg, there are projects and tasks and that's it). But Coda allows you to make your own structure (eg, projects, tasks, questions, issues, anything you want). Other apps have a due date field. But you can make any number of date fields if you want (eg, due, start after, started on, try to get done before, hard due date, actually completed on, review again at). It's things like that that make Coda stand out. Infinite personalization is what I've needed, and Coda is the first to provide it for me.
Great tools, decent pricing, loads of options to help me in my daily work.
The integration to external platforms could be better.
Organizing many data points in various ways, which helps to keep my daily task list organized, making my work more efficient.
The way tables are handled in Coda is fantastic! It allows you to truly create relational tables with very little effort.
My only complaint is the top tier pricing is too high for my budget. For a business that level makes sense. For an individual it does not. Other than that, it's FANTASTIC.
I started with Coda for personal use (see below), but now I'm rebuilding my freelance consulting business using Coda. It is so quick and easy to build solutions and so versatile, that I can solve many problems for many clients with less cost to them. My personal use that got me started and falling in love with Coda. ⬇️ I am a busy, widowed, homeschooling mother of a large family. I organized our entire household on Coda with everything from legal information, medical information to tracking extended warranties, creating my to do list, running my blog posts, and everything you can imagine in between. I've created a library of our books, movies, and even track our 5 rescue cats and all their information. In addition to that I've built a very extensive to do list complete with automated features such as notifying me when extended warranties, credit cards or other things with expiration dates are going to expire. I track insurance and vehicle information including gas mileage and maintenance costs! I'm working currently on tracking our budget and expenses in Coda to see if I can get rid of using Quicken for these functions. The benefit is rather than having a dozen or more different apps that I have to check I just use Coda for EVERYTHING. And I mean everything! Whether it is tracking my sleep or my Bible reading or keeping a list of links of articles I want to read, I pretty much manage everything in my life with one app now. Because it does offer truly relational databases, I can link things together easily. I'm also having my children who are still in school begin learning how Coda can help them to get organized, make plans, etc.
Coda's usability and flexibility has allowed me to create solutions for just about any problem or system I've encountered. With a continuing drive for improvement, Coda is frequently adding value and features I didn't know I needed, but always find useful.
Coda lacks a few integrations that I've seen other document solutions have, and a few are behind a higher paywall than what an individual would be using. When it comes to a mobile experience, Coda is lacking functionality that I want. There is little in the way of creating new documents or pages. Editing works fine, but it's not a full solution.
I'm solving all my problems with Coda: As a software developer, I'm using Coda to project plan and track progress. As a dad, I'm using Coda to keep track of important information for my family. As a disc golfer, I'm using Coda to organize a team for a disc golf company. Every area in my life that needs organization, Coda is capable of handling all I need to solve.
Remarkably easy to use, but also very powerful. The tables and integrations with other apps make this app a game-changer for me. Every part of the app is very well thought out, and it's surprisingly easy to discover new things it can do just by using it normally. Every point of contact with this app, from the interface and features to documentation, support, and its community, is truly a pleasant experience. It's already an excellent product, but they continually and frequently improve performance and add new features. Even the pricing model is well thought out, making it accessible to any business, no matter the size.
Two-way cross-doc would be an improvement.
I'm using Coda to quickly and easily bring together data from multiple other apps. I'm able to keep track of the status of projects across multiple apps and report on consolidated data. So much easier and more pleasant to use than Google Sheets for this.
It's really easy to use and I love their pricing model, which I prefer over their main competitor, Notion. Pricing is based on doc makers and not on viewers, which I think is the appropriate way to go.
I can't think of anything at this time that I dislike about Coda.
Many of my clients are SMBs that don't have massive budgets to invest in work and operations-related technology. They also have a significant percentage of their workforce that work virtually, which often creates challenges with communication and engagement. Coda is cost-effective and highly efficient at enabling my clients to share information, engage with their employees and allow collaboration to happen in real-time.
The customer support for the paid version has been amazing! It's also relatively easy to learn the basics and they have a great tutorial/help section to help get you up and running. I use it for personal stuff, and for business with my team to track jobs statuses and other details. I also like that you don't have to pay for every user, only users who need higher permsissions. Most apps charge you per user, even if they are only using a very basic part of the application. So Coda's pricing was great for us.
I wish it had an offline mode, since I am unable to pull up the app and view information if we are in an area with little or no mobile data service. Some of the terms used within the app take a little getting used to, so I get a little confused when trying to complete certain actions, but I guess that's probably pretty common when using a new application.
In the office, we use it mostly to track the status of our jobs. We are using a table view with filters and sorting showing just the information we need in the order we prefer. In the field, our crew can just see current jobs, and they are able to leave notes, photos, update statuses, about the job as we go to keep everybody including the office on the same page. I love the option to use checkbox lists, bullet points, mentions (where other users will get a notification when we post something), and text formatting. This makes the information easy to view and follow the coversations.