Hi, I’m new to Coda, I just migrated my Notion content here. I was expecting an easy transition with low learning curve, but one thing jumped out at me on first usage and that was the lack of menu context, for such a mature project I was shocked, maybe I’m suppose to install added package to get what i’m used to using, thus the low learning curve attraction to Coda when I evaluated Notion alternative.
Not having a rich baseline document menu context for simple document management is kind of beyond me in comprehension for such a mature project. It seems I’ve landed into a project where lead developers think they know better than the user, not a good recipe.
Yes, I get focus in enterprise class solution, but having been an IT working for 30 years in all size IT department who regularly engage the user community, this is not enterprise UX thinking. First mandate is user customers; SME, power users, etc., , not back office IT customer who is tasked with the mundane task to setup the out of the box experience work for organization, this is wrong thinking, these people need to focus on building out the solution they need not the UX.
Why this post, as a new user who is very busy and needs low learning curve solution, deleted a whole parent document structure from a subdocument 2 layers down. Why would I do such a silly thing, because I didn’t read the popup warning that is used as an excuse to fix a clear deficiency in the UI. There was no 3-dot menu item attached to the document context menu that sufficiently had the basics of doc management.
I do see I can use the left side bar for this, however, that is a hide away option, so now you create a UX where user wants full width space to work, but now must jump back and forth to left sidebar for quick document manipulation. Also let me say that you can provide all the start up guidance you want but do not use it as an escape to good UX.
As Notion increases prices, you are in a great position to pick up there business, but if it is not a seamless migration and a very low learning curve, they will not recommend you to others.