Coda Reviews & Product Details

Coda makes me feel like a genius. The tool is incredibly flexible without a huge barrier to entry. Anyone can sit down and start using a Coda doc. With just a little more effort, anyone can start building connected tables and do some really cool things. With automations and linked tables, I made a template for usability testing that automatically graphs the metrics tracked on multiple pages in the doc. One of co-workers told me they were "crying tears of joy" when they learned how easy it was to use. Coda makes me better at my job.

The mental model shift from tables to connected "views" of tables is one thing that I have to try to explain to each new person on my team who uses the tool. Once you get it, it's great, but it takes a minute to make the shift.

We chose Coda primarily for our User Research Repository - we've built templates and automations to encourage robust, consistent documentation practices. However, as soon as Coda was available for our team to use, a ton of additional use cases have popped up. People love the organization structure, ease of use, and flexibility of the tool.

The ability to create documents that include automation which creates an easier workflow.

The learning curve was a little steep for me but with help of the forums and youtube videos I manged.

Record keeping, tracking how tasks are being performed, emailing our customers pre formated information that can be changed to their needs

The ability to design workflows based on my actual team needs vs being constrained by how software designers want me to run my team

There are some standard functions and list behaviors which are not available at the moment which require more complex workarounds. This prevents faster document creation but ultimately do not prevent workflow just creates BoH paperwork.

I am performing complete Product Management through CODA now and automating task creation and dependencies. The largest benefit has been providing tracability to the entire development team.

How easy it is to link databases, and how quick it is to connect multiple levels in a formula

It can be hard sometimes to figure out what exactly is going on under the hood. The profiler is good but limited. The lack of comments in code is the biggest problem. Also the data input error checking could be a little more seamless

We had a commercial mrp that didn't fit the intricacies of our business structure, and it wasn't easy to make it user-friendly enough for the people managing inventory actually to use. This caused us to lose a lot of time and money trying to make it work. Coda let me build a fully custom MRP system to manage everything from production planning, a full parent-child BOM, hundreds of vendors, and thousands of unique parts, in addition to full inventory management with order fulfillment. There were some growing pains in the process but you guys kept releasing crucial features so it all worked out. The biggest thing is being able to manage all the data while building friendly and well guided dashboards for each type of user

- docs within docs - integrating tables and data - amazing help community

- interface of doc home page - the ability to make your doc wider in view

- finding information easily using the search function and doc within doc feature

Coda is a combination of a word editor, a spreadsheet and a project management software. It works smoothly without any bugs. Its clean interface is another big plus; makes it a pleasure to use Also, Coda continues to innovate, bringing new features all the time and communicating well to its users about them. I see no reason why professionals must continue with the archaic way of different software for different kind of work and not use Coda.

Coda files were stored in Google Drive. There was no way to back them up. So, if you lose the file from your Google Drive, its gone! Retrieval was not possible. I am not sure, I think this has changed now. The Print feature does not print the page correctly. Lot of formatting is lost. Coda does not support presentation features so that I can present my document in meetings.

I use it to save my sales and marketing collateral and efficiently retrieve them when needed. I also use it track my project progress and other information about my projects. The use of Coda makes my work efficient and effective.

I can create complex formulas without any program experience and knowledge. The help desk and the community are a great help.

It takes a smal time investment to under the formulas. BUT Maria's video lessons gave me the info needed.

I'm doing audits with complex formulas for my clients. I can use my Coda doc and then share the results in a meaningful way with the clients and it now takes much time.

You can start out small and confidently grow your documents as your needs and insights into the issue being addressed become more clear. We're using Coda to organize several aspects of our consultancy including client prospecting and engagement. The documents are growing organically with our company. Having them online makes sure all members of the geographically disbursed team are all on the same page. Our documents look great online. And there's an API for tracking and manipulating documents with other tools. Coda offers very fair pricing with a very generous free tier. I cannot imagine running our company without it.

The UI is a few rough edges. For example, links can only be created in the table view.

Keeping a centralized repository of corporate knowledge. Having all this information in a central, trusted source reduces friction and ineffciencies in the company.

Love the flexibility and ability to have our knowledge base easily accessible across the team. All of the widgets, templates, and doc gallery are extremely helpful, and can help guide new processes (e.g., product review meetings, go to market, etc.)

Sometimes duplicating data and cross-linking is unintuitive and can get messy. Also the formulas and sorting can get messy; still use Google Sheets for a lot of tabulation. Would be great to get that into Coda.

Solving the problem of knowledge management and cross-team organization. We have fairly organized bases within Coda for a lot of our teams, as opposed to a giant mess of unlinked docs and spreadsheets.

The table structure brings a familiarity to working with a Coda doc. The interface itself is quite intuitive. The instruction videos are engaging and inspire one to explore more. Plus the community forum seems to have answers for everything under the sun. The packs allow cross-platform integration with other common workspace tools, making it a breeze to automate work.

The support team's responses can be a bit obtuse at times - I wish they'd actually look at the user's work/usage history before deciding what level to respond at.

Collaborative working with multiple teams and managing/implementing the process on one platform rather than trying to coordinate the work on multiple platforms/tools.