Big news: Grammarly is acquiring Coda!

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Dear @shishir ,

You can earn back a lot of goodwill from the longtime Coda fans, some of whom have been here from day one, by dedicating a tiny fraction of the resources which have now become at your disposal to relatively simple quality of life improvements to the core Coda product.

We are dying by a thousand papercuts here. So I will focus my list on small fixes that shouldn’t require any fundamental engineering re-work. And yes, for the millionth time, we’re aware that they’re not security features but we want them anyway.

I’ll save the grandiose feature requests for the many visionary big brains around here. I just need stocking fillers:

1- Add these to Doc Locking options:

  • Toggle the search function off.
  • Toggle the annoying “fill with AI button” off.
  • Toggle the “formula fields cannot be edited” message and the associated grey highlight off.

2- Add this toggle to the edit Layout menu: Hide "row from.." link

3- Fix this formula OpenRow(row, viewOrLayout, viewMode):

  • the viewOrLayout parameter is broken and only takes views. if it also took layous as well it will save us the creation of hundreds of unnecessary views
  • make it allow us to open the row in pinned mode

4- Make conditional formatting work in Layout views

5- Make “Disable If” available to all columns, not just buttons

6- Formally support the button() formula so that it works for any actions and without helper columns

7- Give us access the browser-side event that fires when a row is created or modified , so that we can leverage it to do validations and offload expensive calculations via action formulas. The current API-driven automation speeds are just not fit-for-purpose.

This list may look arbitrary to you, but it is not. Passionate Coda makers know exactly the power that each of them unlocks and the pains that it solves. Have any of your people reach out, and we will happily explain (once again) why we need them.

You’ll notice I didn’t mention Grammarly, because I don’t care. The onus is on you and your team to convince me that I do, when you roll out whatever mind-blowing features you have in mind. But if the thousandth papercut kills me before that happens, I won’t be here to see it.

Happy Holidays and congrats again on the big new job,
Nad

PS: to all the geniuses that are now tempted to reply with “oh but there is a workaround for this or that”. Please don’t. I know all the workarounds and they’re rubbish. We need fixes not bandaids

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