Hello there,
I am new to Coda and currently building a doc to help my team manage projects, track tasks, and maintain documentation all in one place. So far, I have created a few tables for project tracking and task assignment, but as the doc grows, I am starting to worry about long term scalability and performance.
What are some best practices for structuring a Coda doc that multiple people will use regularly?
How do you organize pages and subpages for clarity and ease of navigation?
Are there any tips for optimizing cross table relations to avoid performance issues?
What are your go to methods for keeping the doc clean as more data and views are added?
My goal is to build something that’s powerful but also intuitive for non technical team members to use.
Thanks in advance for your help and assistance.
Hi Robert,
Welcome to Coda and the community!
This question is asked very often, and unfortunately there is no short answer to the question. It depends.
It depends on the number of projects, the number of tasks, the confidentiality of information, and the complexity of the formulas you have used. You should not run into performance problems until you have thousands of rows in your tables. Once that happens, mitigation could be done in several ways depending on your bottlenecks - archive old information, improve/increase the use of views, review formulas that take long to execute.
The best answer I can give you is to experiment with your specific set of requirements. Try some of the templates in the Gallery | explore Coda docs, templates, and Packs - Coda, see what suits your needs, and what ideas you can take from them.
Allow yourself some time to learn Coda, it is EXTREMELY easy to get started, but it has an incredible depth to it - from tables to canvas columns to cross docs, to sync pages to packs.
Here are a few personal rules I have jotted down to share with new users:
But, it’s just a ramble,
Rambling Pete
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One more thing - there are two types of performance problems.
One is during the loading of the doc, and the second is while using the doc.
Because Coda loads the complete doc when you start working, large docs can take a few seconds to load. But I have found that once my large doc is loaded, working with it is quick.
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