Coda Reviews & Product Details

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.

The Coda.io platform allows me to combine databases, spreadsheets, docs, & presentations onto 1 surface without writing code. I have tried others but always return to Coda. Key features that I like include: linked tables that serve as fully functioning databases, the ability to refer to data in my tables on the text canvas, the collapsible feature for text, and the overall ability to consolidate multiple disparate apps into one Coda doc canvas.

Learning Coda.io's formula syntax requires a slight learning curve. However, it is well worth it as the formula language is what prevents you from having to write code. Also, if you have experience with spreadsheets, over time, you will find that Coda's formula language is more intuitive and easier to build with than traditional spreadsheet formulas.

Problems I am solving with Coda: During the pandemic, I used Coda to manage my three kids' learning content for at home learning. This allowed me not to have to log in to three different apps to help my kids with school. I also use Coda for the following: project management, task management, notes, recipes, work reports, and paying bills. These are just a few of the ways I use Coda.

How easy it is to create really powerful docs

Formatting/layouts is still under development.

I have put Coda to a variety of uses. Everybody first does a type of GTD implmentation. Me too. I use it as a personal Information manager, and it covers all areas - health, financial, social, family tree and to do list. Very little remains in spreadsheets, and if it does, the files are referenced from Coda. This means that everything is easy to find, from a single search menu. I no longer need to search through folders and folders to find spreadsheets. For corporate use I have built a tool that allows for the collation of new requirements for software design. It includes a central repository for each requirement, and an action list, with various views: per person, per requirement, per team, per due date.

Great engagement of Codans and actively listening to the community

Not yet 100% ready for the European market, like the date format.

Quality, compliance, standards and knowledge bases are the most common use cases.

Coda is like a mini application. I love that I can design and build something that can engage and encourage people to add their feedback and input without feeling overwhelmed. Creating interaction points for the team is very intentional.

The least helpful point about Coda is that it's not so easy to share or invite people to Coda. With Airtable, it's easy to set up an invite link that can be set for certain type of access. It would be great to have something like that so people can choose what email address to join Coda with instead of me asking people which email address to use.

We're using Coda to create a space for managing meetings and projects. We've found that Coda is phenomenal for creating a simple, intentional space to collaborate. It's helpful to create views that can create focus.

Able to organize all your documents and superpower your documents

Project management features are missing in my opinion

Personal organization for all my projects and planning out business ideas

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.

Coda makes easy building complex docs to gather all the info you need in one place. Thanks to their tables, automations and easy to grasp interface, building everything that you need is extremely easy.

The main issue is that you cannot have infinite pages inside a Table element, unlike their competition. Apart from that it's got you covered in practically every way.

It is provinding a central piece to manage all my team's info in one place. From documentation to project management to manage my financials in one Doc. Coda is the tool we use for centralising everything.

Adaptable, scalable, flexible. Coda is a great incentive to do and learn all sorts of things. All the data you put in becomes executable in so many ways. You're always able to consider what you've already learned and how you can apply the content and/or methodology for future outcomes.

They've taken on quite a significant challenge so some of the expectations of app performance require a bit of patience. It's also disrupting most out-of-the-box solutions, so managing competition and staying true to their own product has sometimes been difficult.

Coda solves almost every productivity problem. But if I were an educator and wanted a way to introduce almost any student population to computational logic and design, I'd do it with Coda.

I love how I can easily customize coda docs to however fits my needs. It makes managing any projects , note taking, and collaborating a breeze once you understand their language.

I would love to see improvements on a couple of things. 1: Locking specific cells in a table vs a page can help ensure that certain things do not get edited 2: Being able to drag (or double-click) on a cell and have it copy & paste whatever is in that cell to the next - this will make manual efforts more efficient with table making

Coda is solving our teams way of managing projects but it's also changing the game on how to take better more effective notes. It makes looking back on info much less chaotic and has a simple sophisticated user interface which we love!

Flexible tool that gives the opportunity type of powerful doc you can imagine.

So far, I have not found things I disliked.

Centralizing all the docs you could need in one place. Also enhancing collaboration.

- Real-time collaboration, great for brain storming ideas with the team - Packs that integrate the tools with other tools from our workflow (jira, google docs, slack, etc...) - Ease of use

search within the document, especially in large documents, seems like the feature was developed for small documents with just a few results

Knowledge base for our team. when we want to know about some feature of our product coda is the go-to place to get that info. Sometimes I use it as a kind of internal blog for our area. where I put posts, guides and how-tos on very technical issues.

In my view, Coda has plenty of strong points, but I would pinpoint just these five: 1. Extremely powerful formula language, that goes well beyond that of competing apps. 2. Built-in automations, that do not depend on external services. 3. Extensible platform, by means of "Packs". The documentation and SDK used to build them are top-notch. 4. Straightforward way to create a personal maker profile, publish docs and packs, track their usage, and even monetize them easily. 5. Lively and helpful user community, hosted by Coda. To summarize, Coda is, in my opinion, an exceptionally versatile, well-thought platform, that put simply, is a joy to use.

Three aspects that I consider could be improved: 1. In my experience, performance in complex documents is slightly sluggish at times, but I acknowledge this is a common chore in many similar, cloud-based platforms. 2. Despite formulas and automations being extremely powerful and suitable to tackle a wealth of use-cases, the doc-based, compartmentalized philosophy of Coda perhaps makes it not so suitable in knowledge management scenarios. 3. The document manager is pretty basic and lacks some features that are often taken for granted, i.e. subfolders, different views, drag and drop UI...

I am using Coda to solve multi-user process workflows that require event-driven automations and rich user interfaces. Besides that, I find the built-in charting capabilities extremely useful to build reporting dashboards without relying on external services.

First of all, if you look at coda as a place for internal documentation for your company - it looks nice. Typography works, pages look great and it's improve adoption for sure - people of your organization would not be afraid to use it. The second thing is the flexibility that the coda gave to you. We moved a couple of internal processes and organize them through coda and rely on them from now on. In addition to driving the adoption of new processes, we also set up a couple of automation that send messages to slack and emails so that everybody be on the same page on updates. I can say that coda is one of the most important tools in my daily routine these days.

As with all software, coda has its own limitations. We're still missing ability to have access to comments in automation (e.g. there is no way to set up reminders based on the absence of comments at the moment, while we need them). It's also require some understanding of data structures if you want to build the process on it (not just documentation). But overall anyway it's great.

Internal documentation storage and search; processes automation; internal communication archive; collaborative tool;

Coda is so easy to get started with, use, and continue learning throughout your time with the product. The keyboard shortcuts make doc creation 10x faster than Google Docs.

It can be a bit slow for a page to load so its hard to toggle between pages quickly - definitely cant toggle through docs quickly at all, as you can only view one doc at a time

All of our documents and information for different projects lived in different places. Our team works on 1-2 projects at a time on a rolling basis, so we needed a place to keep our documentation so we could stay organized.

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.

Coda is more than just a document editor. I've been able to create team hubs, project trackers, newsletters, event invites, book clubs, Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, personal goals trackers...and the list goes on and on. I tell everyone I know about the power of Coda.

Coda's advanced tools can take a steep learning curve for folks who are not familiar with basic logic that we'd see in Excel, etc. It's fine for me, but a focused course on logic would be amazing.

Coda is our solution for team hubs, trackers, and onboarding emails/documentation. At first we used it just to store information and get feedback, but all the of amazing Packs allow us to do so much more!

The connectivity/integrations between Coda and everything else we use.

The access permissions for the team folders were confusing but I believe that's just a plan limitation.

Streamline collaboration on internal projects, easy-to-build aesthetic documents to clients, easy to edit playbooks/wikis for company-wide communications

lo fácil que es construir todo un imperio de seguimiento y administración, además de lo limpio que es el diseño y la rapidez de la curva de aprendizaje es una joya

probablemente el dark theme está muy descuidado, me gustaría que el diseño fuera un poco diferente ya que la paleta de colores no cuadra tan bien y me deprime verlo así de mal

hemos podido administrar equipos de trabajo de más de 100 personas en una sola cuenta, con acceso incluso a clientes, pagando una fracción de lo que pagábamos con otras herramientas

Coda combines quantitative and qualitative capabilities that I couldn't find or accomplish with any one vendor before. Anything I have tried to do, has been possible in Coda.

Would love to have the ability to have filter views! As of right now, if one page is filtered by any user it is filtered for everyone - would love to have this more specific to a given person.

Coda is making it possible for us to have the needed visibility and accountability in order to hit our deadlines for annual turn when it comes to rep's books/quotas globally.