I was somewhat (and predictably) delighted to see this, but I agree with you. The baseline product is in serious need of love and empathy right now. Without a healthy Coda, AI aināt gonna matter much.
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Welcome @Ruggy_Joesten1!!
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Welcome @Ruggy_Joesten1 ! Looking forward to the updates and to meeting you!
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Welcome @Ruggy_Joesten1 
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Cannot agree with this more. Promoting what is already in Coda is the juiciest, freshest of low hanging fruit.
I have extensively searched over many years for a tool that is integrated, and will assist me in managing the creation, collection and managing of information for my SAP implementation projects. Way before SAP I found a tool called Framework IV which was years (decades?) ahead of its time, which did a good early job of what Coda is now doing so excellently: Integrating different types of data: tables, documents.
Then I got involved in SAP implementation projectsā¦ Over the last 40 years SAP (ECC/ S4) has grown technologically by leaps and bounds, but (some) projects are still managed via email, PowerPoint and Excel. Along the way I tried and discarded PersonalBrain (now The Brain), Basecamp, RoamResearch, Notion and others. But since I found Coda 6 years ago, it has been a constant in my work and has been an enormous productivity boost. Researchers say that knowledge workers spend 2.5 hours PER DAY searching their folders and emails for information.
With Coda and my office Knowledge Hub I get irritated if I spend more than 5 minutes for a piece of information.
Everything I have done for the last 3 years is recorded and managed in there. From meetings, my Todo list, through to Design workshop results, Functional Design Documents, Technical Design Documents, Process Flows, How-to documents, Master Data and Configuration Gathering Documents, Process Flows, Test Scripts and a whole lot more.
ALL with a bare minimum of code.
Let me complete the weave, as some person is fond of saying: For the life of me I cannot understand why Coda is not promoting the living daylights out of what it already has.
We have a saying in Afrikaans that translates to āHe who does not respect the small, is not worth the big.ā
BUT, itās just a ramble,
Rambling Pete
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We do different types of work and in vastly different countries, but we have walked the same path and landed on the same conclusion. We have rejected the same tools on a long journey to find the most ideal tool, and that is Coda.
I am blessed to have discovered it a decade ago.
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Check out Baltimore Stadium on Sept 12 for some real oval ball sports when the Springboks (South Africa) and the All Blacks (New Zealand) play the final test in the 2026 leg of The Greatest Rivalry tourā¦
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I want to add a bit more color commentary to this comment from yesterday.
I can see how it might not be immediately obvious how an AI Writing Docs roundtable fits into the Coda experience youāve known and invested in, so I want to be more granular and add some important context.
The AI Writing Docs roundtable on Feb 10 is directly tied to the Coda experience and our long-standing mission to make Coda the best docs platform ever created. Writing in Coda isnāt just about prose; itās how people structure ideas, build systems, document decisions, and turn complexity into something usable. Improving that layer improves everything built on top of it.
Coda joining forces with Grammarly and Superhuman means more support for the community and for users, not less. My role, coming on as a community manager, is one tangible example of that commitment. Any tools or capabilities that may feel historically ānativeā to Grammarly or Superhuman should be viewed as a āYes, andā ā not a āno, butā ā to what already makes Coda powerful.
For longtime Coda users, this isnāt about oversimplifying the experience, reducing depth, or replacing hard-won craftsmanship. Itās about reducing overhead so more energy goes into the parts of building that actually differentiate great work. These tools are meant to amplify what you already do well, not rewrite it.
These roundtables exist because community input is essential to getting this right. Iād love longtime Coda builders to come into these sessions with an open mind, help shape how these capabilities show up in practice, and hold us accountable to our shared mission: continuing to make Coda the greatest docs platform ever by optimizing what we, and you, already do so well.
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Ooo I had no clue this was happening! I have always wanted to see the All Blacks IRL!
Thank you, @Chris_Williams1! Looking forward to chatting with you directly at some point soon.
Great to meet you, @Diego_Delfino!
@Daniel_Stieber same same! Thank you for the warm welcome 
Now youāre in troubleā¦
You should have said Springboks!!
Iāll be there.
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Welcome, Ruggy. The community has been a big help to me. I am glad to hear that you will be our advocate to the developers. Since you have been responding to other community membersā comments, I wanted to add an issue.
One thing I love about Coda is the ability to copy and paste data from a spreadsheet, and Coda magically creates a table. This has been amazing. There are some issues with this automation. Coda assumes the column type based on the data, which is great most of the time, but not always. I have several columns that, even though they contain numbers, I need the data to be treated as text. I change the column type to Text, but Coda still treats it like a number. When I add a filter bar option, it only gives options as if they were numbers. This data is not going to be calculated. I need the search options of ācontainsā and āstarts withā, which come with text fields.
People in the Community have been bringing up this issue for years, as you can see from this post. There are a few workarounds that have been suggested, but the ones I have tried have not worked. I would love it if, once you manually change the column type, it is treated as that column type, no matter what kind of data is in the column.
Thanks
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I have a strong opinion to SHOUT OUT to any gathering of Codans+Superhumans+Coda-Makers.
(I am tempted to write this in ALL CAPITALS for emphasis, but that would be just rude.)
Coda is, in my experience (and in the view of my biggest clients), the VERY BEST no-code APP BUILDER on the market for folks with spreadsheet experience.
With it, we can RAPIDLY build highly useful, powerful APPLICATIONS that automate all kinds of workflows for our businesses.
Let me repeat those key words: Itās an APPLICATION BUILDER. And it is THE BEST ONE !
So why oh why does Coda (and Superhuman) NOT promote it as such? It reached the point where even mentioning the dreaded A-Word triggered negative responses from Codans on this forum.
With the rise of the AI Tsunami, this ability of Coda becomes even MORE IMPORTANT.
It has gone from a fantastic APPLICATION BUILDER to an amazing AI AGENT BUILDER that normal mortal business folks can understand and use with ease.
So - again - WHY OH WHY does the company hide this under the proverbial bushel ???
And I am not referring to the yet-to-be-launched Superhuman Go SDK (which is NOT no-code) but the ability of ordinary makers to build AI Agentic Workflows using just Tables and Formulas.
My business is currently overwhelmed by requests from managers who want to learn how to use Coda to automate SOPs in their business! But none of them heard about it from any marketing campaign by Coda/Superhuman.
So here is my wailing cry of desperation for yāall:
The OPPORTUNITY out there is HUGE and the OPPORTUNITY is CLOSING right now!
Please stop waiting for some new features to get launched.
Follow the warriors mantra for winning the long haul..
- Start where you are (you have a fantastic AI APP BUILDER)
- Use what you have (you have a fantastic AI APP BUILDER)
- Do what you can (you can promote your fantastic AI APP BUILDER)
It costs virtually NOTHING to generate streams of content to promote this strengthā¦
- papers,
- videos,
- shorts,
- conferences,
- seminars,
- workshops,
- hackathons,
- meetups,
- teasers,
- trailers,
- interviews,
- podcasts,
- fecking-anything-other-than-stoic-silence,
- and whatever else the gen-alpha influencers are producing these days!
Ok - putting the megaphone away now.
Over to you guys.
Max
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AMEN.
AMEN
AMEN
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Couldnāt agree more.
The only thing thatās left to say.
In my own words: I cannot credibly keep singing the praise of Codaās functionality if Coda itself does not seem to value its own power.
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Hey Jennifer!
Sorry for the delay, I have had some travel days recently and missed your original reply. Thanks for adding this and for the thoughtful detail. Itās helpful to understand how youāre using this in practice. Iām reading along and will ensure this perspective is shared internally. I will be following up as soon as I have anything to report back on.
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Oh Max, that is SO spot on.
Coda is not just the best, it is the best by A WIDE MARGIN!!
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We cannot underestimate the excitement that sparked in all makers and users when Coda first launched generative AI in a cell. Before that, several use cases had already emerged with Pack-driven inferencing. And as exciting a moment in time that may have been, we all knew that the essential knitting of apps, workflows, and sources of record towered over AI and every facet of opportunistic productivity enhancers.
Max has wittingly encapsulated that spark and reflection in a single sentence. It brings back fond memories of a time when all Coda users, Makers, and Codans universally celebrated the power of the canvas juxtaposed with the highly competent capabilities of tables, CFL, Pack integrations, and the vast interpretations possible with data. This was, and remains, the superhuman spirit of @Shishir_Mehrotraās original vision.
Long before I began to use Superhuman (the email client), Coda gave me, and my small team of highway analytics AI scientists, SUPERHUMAN strength.
The rumor that there is a greater āsuperhumanā strength waiting in the wings remains unsubstantiated. I hope there is, but I do not see it. I fear that when I do see it, it will be too late. Perhaps obsolete on arrival.
I still love and use Coda because it makes me look like a genius. I will continue to use AI with Coda because it, too, makes me look like a more productive genius. This is a marginal gain. Coda remains the underlying capability irrespective of who (or what) makes it, drives it, or benefits from it.
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