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Coda Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated
Coda is a document management solution for creating, editing, and viewing text documents and spreadsheets. , It also helps centralize all documents to ensure seamless efficiency between teams and comes with customizable templates that let organizations create personalized documents for meetings, brainstorming sessions, customer feedback, to-do lists, and market research. It features drag-and-drop functionality, which keeps functionality simple, and has numerous tools that offer role-based access.
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API
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| Segment |
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
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| Deployment | Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Mobile Android, Mobile iPad, Mobile iPhone |
| Support | 24/7 (Live rep), Chat, Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support |
| Training | Documentation |
| Languages | English |
Coda bills you for Doc Makers only. Editors and Viewers are free — on every plan, including Enterprise. An Editor can edit content, add tables and views, build formulas and buttons, and configure Packs and automations, and still costs nothing. So a fifty-person workspace where five people create docs pays for five seats. In a category where almost everyone charges per head, that is the most buyer-friendly pricing model reviewed here this month.
- What it is: A document creation platform combining docs, tables, formulas and automations — now sold as Superhuman Docs.
- Best for: Teams where a few people build documents and many people use them.
- Pricing: Free; Pro €12, Business €33 per Doc Maker monthly on annual billing; Enterprise custom. Verified July 2026.
- The honest catch: The product has been rebranded — every button on the pricing page says “Get Superhuman”.
What Is Coda?
Coda merges documents, spreadsheets, databases and applications into one surface: pages that contain connected tables, views, forms, formulas, buttons and automations, extended by integrations it calls Packs. It cites 40 million-plus people and 50,000-plus organisations.
The name has changed. Every call to action on the pricing page reads “Get Superhuman Free”, “Get Superhuman Pro” or “Get Superhuman Business”, and the FAQ refers throughout to “Superhuman Docs”. Coda now sits inside the Superhuman family alongside Grammarly, and the plan cards list Grammarly and Go as included from Pro, with Mail added from Business.
Docs AI is marked Beta and is described as “available during Beta for Doc Makers”.
How Coda Works
- Doc Makers are the only billed role.
- Editors, Viewers and Guest Editors are always free.
- The model holds on Enterprise, per Coda’s own FAQ.
- Two paid tiers plus a free one, and a custom Enterprise.
- Grammarly, Go and Mail are bundled from Pro upward.
- Removals give account credit, not refunds.
Coda Pricing
Captured from Coda’s pricing page in July 2026 on the euro price list.
| Plan | Annual (per Doc Maker/mo) | Monthly | Saving | Key additions |
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| Free | €0 | €0 | — | Collaborative docs, connected tables, formulas, automations |
| Pro | €12 | €15 | 20% | Unlimited doc size, 30-day version history, custom branding and domains |
| Business | €33 | €40 | 17.5% | Databases, unlimited automations and version history, private folders, doc locking |
| Enterprise | Custom | — | — | SAML SSO, SCIM, audit events, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA |
What actually decides your cost:
- Count your doc creators, not your team. Coda’s FAQ is explicit: “Editors and Viewers are always free”, and “at the end of each billing cycle, you will be billed for the workspace based on the number of Doc Makers in it.” A Doc Maker creates docs and templates and manages folders; an Editor does almost everything else — tables, views, formulas, buttons, Packs, automations — for nothing.
- The free roles are unusually capable. This is not a viewer-only tier dressed up. An Editor building a formula-driven tracker with automations is doing the substantive work of the platform and is not billed for it. Compare that with Notion or Airtable, where an editor is a paid seat.
- Outside collaborators are free too. Sharing a doc externally adds the recipient as a Guest Editor, who can edit content in that doc but cannot manage pages or browse the workspace. Guest Editors cost nothing, so client and contractor collaboration does not inflate the bill.
- Enterprise keeps the model. The FAQ states plainly: “Even on Enterprise, you pay only for Doc Makers.” Enterprise adds SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit events, a SOC 2 Type 2 report and HIPAA compliance rather than changing how you are counted.
- Business is a 175% step up from Pro. €33 against €12 buys databases, unlimited automations and version history, private team folders, page locking and cross-doc actions. Pro’s automations are not stated as unlimited, so heavy automation users should establish the Pro limit before assuming they can stay there.
- Cancelling gives credit, not money back. Coda’s FAQ: “When you remove members or cancel your plan, we’ll apply a prorated credit onto your account you can use for future charges in your workspace.” That credit is usable inside the workspace, not refundable to your card.
Who Should Use Coda
- Teams with few builders and many readers. The clearest case — the pricing model is designed exactly for this shape.
- Operations and product teams. Connected tables, formulas and automations replace a spreadsheet-plus-doc sprawl.
- Agencies and consultancies. Guest Editors are free, so client collaboration costs nothing.
- Organisations needing compliance. SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA on Enterprise.
It fits poorly for teams where everyone creates docs, since every one of them is a billed seat; for buyers who need mature, non-beta AI, given Docs AI’s Beta labelling; and for anyone unsettled by an in-progress rebrand.
Honest Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Editors and Viewers are free on every plan, including Enterprise.
- Free Editors can build tables, formulas, buttons, Packs and automations.
- Guest Editors from outside the workspace are free.
- A genuinely capable free tier with connected tables and automations.
- Grammarly, Go and Mail bundled from Pro upward.
- A 20% annual discount on Pro.
Limitations
- The product has been rebranded to Superhuman Docs mid-flight.
- Business costs 175% more than Pro.
- Docs AI is still labelled Beta.
- Pro’s automation allowance is not stated as unlimited.
- Cancellations yield account credit, not refunds.
- SSO and compliance reporting require Enterprise.
Coda Alternatives and How It Compares
- Notion is the closest competitor, charging per member rather than per creator.
- Airtable is stronger as a database, with per-seat editor pricing.
- ClickUp and monday.com approach the same ground from project management.
- Smartsheet targets enterprise work management with a spreadsheet metaphor.
- Google Workspace covers documents far more cheaply without the database layer.
- Confluence, Slite and Nuclino compete on team wikis and documentation.
For a broader survey, browse our document creation directory.
The Verdict
Coda’s pricing model is the best thing about it, and after a month of reviews spent pointing out where headline rates mislead, it is a pleasure to report one that works the other way. You are billed for Doc Makers only. Editors and Viewers are free, and so are Guest Editors from outside your workspace — on every plan, with the FAQ confirming that “even on Enterprise, you pay only for Doc Makers.” Crucially, the free roles are not spectators: an Editor can build tables and views, write formulas, configure buttons, add Packs and set up automations. A fifty-person team where five people create documents pays for five seats.
Set against per-member competitors, the difference compounds quickly. That same fifty-person workspace costs €60 a month on Pro or €165 on Business, where a tool charging per member would bill all fifty. If your organisation has a handful of builders and a long tail of people who read, comment and edit within existing docs — which describes most operations, product and marketing teams — this is the cheapest serious option in the category by a wide margin.
Two things to note before committing. The product is being rebranded: every button on the pricing page now reads “Get Superhuman”, the FAQ calls it “Superhuman Docs”, and Grammarly, Go and Mail appear as bundled products from Pro upward. Anyone evaluating “Coda” should know they are buying into the Superhuman family, and that Docs AI is still labelled Beta. And on the commercial detail, removing members or cancelling produces a prorated account credit rather than a refund — usable for future charges in the workspace, not returned. Neither undermines the central point, which is that Coda charges for the people building and lets everyone else in free.
FAQ
How much does Coda cost?
On the euro price list captured July 2026: Free at €0, Pro at €12 per Doc Maker per month billed annually (€15 monthly), and Business at €33 billed annually (€40 monthly). Enterprise is a custom quote. Crucially, you are billed only for Doc Makers — Editors, Viewers and outside Guest Editors are free on every plan.
What is a Doc Maker in Coda?
The only billed role. Coda’s FAQ defines Doc Makers as members who “create new docs and templates, create and manage folders to organize the workspace”, plus doc administration such as adding pages, changing titles and icons, and configuring locking. Editors, by contrast, “can edit content and collaborate in existing docs and pages, including adding tables and views, constructing formulas and buttons, adding and configuring Packs and automations” — and are free.
Are Coda Editors and Viewers really free?
Yes. The FAQ states “Editors and Viewers are always free”, and billing is based purely on the number of Doc Makers in a workspace. External collaborators become Guest Editors, who can edit content in docs shared with them but cannot manage pages or browse the workspace, and they are free too. The model holds on Enterprise, which the FAQ confirms explicitly.
Is Coda now called Superhuman?
Effectively, yes. Every call to action on the pricing page reads “Get Superhuman Free”, “Get Superhuman Pro” or “Get Superhuman Business”, and the FAQ refers throughout to “Superhuman Docs”. The plans also list Grammarly and Go as included from the Pro tier, with Mail added at Business, so Coda now sits within the wider Superhuman product family.
Does Coda refund unused time if I cancel?
Not in cash. Coda’s FAQ states: “When you remove members or cancel your plan, we’ll apply a prorated credit onto your account you can use for future charges in your workspace.” So downgrading or removing Doc Makers produces workspace credit against future billing rather than money returned to your payment method.
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Limited set of highly used features ensures you keep focus on the writing.
Nothing I can think of to be honest.....
Coda is helping me create and maintain documentation really well.
The ability to structure the doc with pages, sub-pages, collapsible headers, etc.
Not so user friendly to format text / structure of tables. A lot of time we end up putting screenshots of excels instead of using Coda tables for data representation
Helps create easy to read docs for meetings, that can be shared in advance for more effective outcomes during the meeting
The organization and capabilities of Coda. It makes documentation, planning, reviews and task tracking quite easy
There is nothing really to dislike about Coda
Coda is trying to solve issues around documentation, knowledge base and task tracking. This is really beneficial to me as it helps keep record of activities and updates.
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.
Coda has one of the best interfaces according to me in the field of task and project management. It had tons of customizable options which let me use it to optimum level for assigning each and every work to my team and manage the workflow as well.
Coda can be slightly complicated for the new users to learn and adapt as it was for me in the start. The third party integration of the platform is slightly on the lower side, I wanted to import several of my documents from other sources but was unable to.
Coda is one of the best management platforms for the leaders out there who are in a search for creating different types of files, such as spreadsheets, database related documents and a lot more. My experience with this platform in terms of fulfilling my needs, create files and everything has been absolutely great and satisfying.
Coda is so much more than a Doc in an app! Every project I have worked on is like an actual small App within Coda! You can basically use it for small and large-scale projects. You can integrate it with 3rd part apps, you can connect it via the API with different stuff from Open AI to many other apps. One of the best parts would be Coda packs.
Everything (on the functional side works perfectly) although as a user I'd suggest the Coda team look into background colour changes and customisation regarding the design of pages and subpages. However, the best part: there is CodaCommunity with a Suggestion Box where users can share all of this and Coda team takes these things into consideration sooner rather than later.
Coda is so much more than a Doc in an app! I create different types of Coda tools for nonprofits and SMEs: from business automation to building monitoring and evaluation systems for their projects. Some of the publically available Coda docs are here: https://www.augmeneo.com/portfolio-3
* Flexibility * Relational Data Stores * Automations * Integrations
* Lack of ability to structure docs * Inability to search through all pages of all docs in a central area (think: Notion view of all docs)
It is solving making use case specific tools. We are able to self define how we do OKRs, Product Management, etc. It integrates with other tools, so we don't have to only use a specific tool (like Asana or Monday.com)
The elegant way to combine wiki and database functionality combined with an easy to lean and easy to use Coda formula language. The on boardig is exeptional with use case focused newsletters and one minute videos. The Gallery is full of nice examples you can copy freely. The licencing is outstanding compared to any direct competitors (like Notion or Airtable), because you pay only for the maker. I use Coda in a project with more than 100 users an pay less than 400 USD a year.
Coda has limitless integration possibility with API and Packs, but to develop a Pack is far more difficult than to write a formula. It is still using JavaScript with no contextual help like when writing a CODA formula. The other weak area is monetization. Coda offers affiliate program, but it is buggy and the workflow is very akward.
1. Finding information - It is a one stop shop for all information we use in the project. 2. Alwas use the correct data - by referencing to KPI, objective all information is consistant. 3. Remote work dinamics - using ingteractive tools our remote meetings become more valuable 4. see only the relevan information - with smart filters and User() function we see only what we need 5. differt user groups needs different presentation - developers use Jira with Jira pack, product managers use Kanban view, PMs use table and GANNT
Coda is so fast to code. You can just hop in and create in mere minutes. Either its a doc, a collaborative table, or a whole app, you can do it. Add those to the connections to other apps and you've got a proper powerhouse.
Not a lot! Probably a bit better pdf support! Can also get a bit sluggish on an old and slow computer but that's most modern pages nowadays. Other than that's its great.
Coda helps bridge the gap between homemade business solutions and single-use specialised apps by allowing you to build something custom but also easy. I can get my clients on board in a snap and build a business ecosystem right in coda.
The best thing about Coda is the flexibility and the power that it offers. That blank canvas with all of the tables and packs waiting make it head and shoulders above any other existing platform. I love using it for simple docs, but you can also build custom apps and reports for your team to give them superpowers.
I think if I had to pick a downside, it would be the functionality of the mobile apps. I'm looking forward to seeing those become better and improve over time.
I've built a lot of things with Coda. I built a bug tracker to help keep tabs on issues customers are facing and also use it to power our asynchronous work since our team is global. It helps us come to agreements on how and when we move forward as a group.
The most helpful thing about coda is the flexibility of the software. It's easy to test an idea, build a wiki, or share detailed reports with a simple user experience. We've used it for everything from onboarding documents to our project management system while looking for a more robust solution for our (extremely complex) project system. We've also let new users try it out for notetaking and resources (internal wikis and knowledge bases). It is easy to hand off because it behaves similarly to a Google Doc or Google Sheets. The interface is user-friendly, and the editor options are where you expect them to be. Navigation is easy as well, coda allows for multiple levels of hierarchy in folders and can create a "chapter" heading-like feel for the document. In addition, it can help us prototype applications. We've also used it to build a proof of concept for a Customer Resource Manager (CRM) and WordPress website content storage. For project management solutions, we've tied in multiple resources and used them to create various views of our data. Our project system in Coda was viewable by project managers or the staffer working on it. We've also been able to share our Coda docs with our clients and limit their access.
Some issues arise with Coda when you try to do exactly what you can in Google Sheets; the formulas and the syntax for formulas are slightly different (I mean, it's not a Google product, so...). However, the formula lookup is easy, and the devs crew at Coda are very responsive. Some integrations do not pull in all of the data that you want. Some integrations don't work exactly the way you want them to, but most of the issues I've had when first using Coda (as an early adopter) have been solved over time with new additions, new releases, packs, and through requesting updates through their portal. Some things I wish for from Coda: More header options - specifically h4 and h5. More font choices outside of serif and sans serif. And a less expensive option for their top tier if you only want document access privacy instead of the additional integrations.
We had previously relied on Google Sites for a lot of our internal documentation, intranet sites, and resource wikis (knowledge bases), but then in 2020, Google retired Google sites in the previous iteration. The new Google Sites do not have a strong hierarchy, their forms are not as integrated as before, the sheets are not as integrated as before, and it is more difficult for many of our technology-avoidant staff. Coda has been a good stepping stone to figuring out what these intranet sites need before we build a new platform for their committee or sub-group. Coda docs have also provided a more efficient way for users to manage their own content, add attachments and images, and communicate asynchronously without email. As a small team that manages many websites, it's also helped us wrangle our loose ends. With our Coda wiki, we can quickly update our information, link to our resources, add troubleshooting docs and links and keep it up-to-date. (Which is a critical aspect of team information that seems to get overlooked). We also have version history in our Coda, so if something gets updated or edited, it's easy to restore and see what it was previously without needing more information.
Coda is really easy to use with a great interface. I primarily used it for wiki purposes and it served it's function really well!
No dislikes that I've experienced at this point.
Creating a knowledge base wiki that is easy to manage and keep organized
Big fan of the way Coda makes it easy to document product roadmaps, align PRDs and feature requests, and just overall making my life more readable.
The shortcuts/bookmarks aspects of Coda are a little barebones. Locking and unlocking docs can feel a little bit clunky at first
Coda is my primary hub for learning all things related to our product roadmap. It's a centralized repository for all these things, which makes me more productive.
Coda offers in doc code format, easy styling and sharing of documents, and can be integrated with Slack to have notifications.
Nothing as of now, serves all my requirements
Coda personally helps to create and organize docs, on the team level we use it as a document base and knowledge base and also to track our goals.
I like how easy it is to collaborate with my team members and keep track of edits and suggestions.
I dislike that all users can edit forms and workspaces. I frequently accidentally edit the backend of the forms.
Coda is solving the problem of having various channels of project work and conversations. It streamlines work timelines.
Coda has been an easy and affordable way for us to centralize both our documentation and project management. It was easy for our team to understand and set up a custom structure which worked for our work flow. Once that was set up, the whole team was able to use it with minimal training (a few hours, maximum).
Integration with typical microsoft office documents for collaborative editing is not as ideal as I would like. You can upload documents to the site, but we have yet to develop a way that several people can work on an office document at the same time and sync edits. There may be integrations with sharepoint that we have yet to discover which could be worth looking into if setting up a system.
Coda is serving as a product management tool and document/data organization for our company. We have developed a custom project management segment to fit with our workflow, as well as a system to cleanly organize all company information. After struggling with consistent document management for a while, the clean workflow offered by coda has been easy for everyone to use and understand where things are stored.
Coda maximizes the two most important things when it comes to productivity: ease of use and flexibility.
It is still in development, which every once and a while becomes apparent. I also wish the mobile experience was faster and more optimized.
Motivation and productivity can vary wildly from person to person, or even from day to day. Coda allows its users to get into the mindset of constantly adjusting what isn't working and striving for a more optimal system.
Coda is one of the best of its kind, hands down! It is super customisable and the has a plethora of integrations and apps to extend the functionaing. Inbuilt tables and image viewers are the best!
Not much to dislike. Would recommend it to people and suggest Team Coda to advertise it more aggressively so that it gets more popular and frequently used.
Project management and information management are both being handled by Coda really well. It is great for documentation of company knowledge or personal information as well.
Perfect combination of spreadsheets, text and graphics. Easy to use and navigate.
Nothing. Coda is great and I don't see any downsides.
Team collaboration. Ability to share complex processes and data in an easy way.
Code is easy to navigate and has a library of building blocks that helps create documents and use them in ways you didn't imagine before. I like that our team can easily share templates on it and even use them to complement our existing knowledge base solution.
Code has a steep learning curve to do some basic things. It's easy to navigate but not so easy to use. The Coda team provides text-based and video tutorials and free sessions to help get the best out of Coda.
We use Coda to complement our existing knowledge base solution, share templates and documents, and collaborate on them. Over time, I got used to it, and it helps be more productive.
The support staff are phenomenal! Questions about features or bugs are answered very quickly. I really enjoy using Coda for organizing my personal projects.
When trying to configure some of their more complex offerings, it can be difficult to tell if something is missing, if there is a bug, or if you are doing something wrong, and this can take some time to research before hitting up the Support button.
Seamlessly having all your dynamic information in one place without needing to context switch or having too many tabs open
It is simple, uncluttered, and totally versatile. I use it for everything, in fact, it's my go-to place for anything I want to document, save, share, and collaborate on.
I love building scripts and codes, but I find the language challenging to understand. Since I only build new functionalities once in a while, I have to re-learn how to do certain things which should be intuitive by now.
Coda has become my main business repository. It's where I keep my CRM, my product development research, analysis, marketing strategies, plans, writings, etc.. If I have the choice between putting it on scattered individual documents, or putting it in Coda, then 100% it goes into Coda.
For a small company, CODA is a very flexible tool for accounting and analyzing data, automating business processes. Easy enough to learn with no programming experience. With programming experience, you can do fantastic things. Of course, there are pitfalls, but the project is developing and this gives hope.
Not yet very friendly tools for printing documents or converting them to *.PDF (but they are there). At times updates break the familiar look and feel of documents without warning. Solvable, but not pleasant.
Business process automation for a small manufacturing company: accounting and management of orders, bill of materials, production cycles, sales and shipments.Without increasing management we manage more complex tasks
Coda is the most promising platform in the market for all things tracking, note-taking, project management, knowledge base and much more.
The only thing currently missing from Coda in my opinion are quick native ways to capture information, such as a fast Android widget.
Team dashboard, project management, task aggregator, knowledge base, information capture and much more.
The ability to build formula using text control within text is very useful
cannot put borders and color background around text boxes
by building formula using text control, I can build dynamic instructions for my work flow depending on the scale of the workflow
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.
No matter what items are part of your docs, if it's text, graphics, links, videos, tables - there is no better platform out there at the moment to integrate it all. Plus, the Coda online app looks as if I paid a developer 100 Grand to finish it for me. Great work, Team CODA!
I wish there was a way to have the doc search function on the mobile app. That's really a drawback. Besides that, I'd consider adding the option for custom domains, and custom SEO (like the link thumbnail when posted on social media. A payment gateway for monetizing docs would also be a fantastic idea!
It's an easy way to create complex structures of pages with submenus without needing to be a programmer. The ability to connect pages via cards is very useful, all links are dynamic, so even if I change a page's name it's not messing up the link. It's those little details that make Coda great!
The ability to communicate a significant amount of information effectively using multiple formats.
It takes a bit of time for new features to come out.
The central problem is making the spreadsheet a helpful communication tool.
One suite for most of the company's operations. CRM, operations, strat sessions, even communication among the team members. Also very affordable in comparison to its competitors. CODA has also made a lot of micro and macro level improvements over the last year.
It is hard to use the word "dislike" about Coda because it delivers on many fronts. So all shortcomings fall in the category of "requested features" like default support of UTF-8 characters.
I use Coda as a one-stop place for running my company's operations, sales, marketing efforts. Same for the strategic brainstorming sessions, and more and more - internal and external communication.
I love that not only can you link to other pages internally, Coda works with several tools like ClickUp.
I know there aren't any intentions of creating a desktop app, the Chrome shortcut closes fully when you try to close the window. It reloads and starts from the top each time it's opened and I forget where I was.
It's helping me manage projects and our production calendar.