Complex Meeting Notes in Coda

@Chris_DeAngelis

So I have seen many questions get asked but the answers are mostly inaccessible.

a lot of the docs arent shared (to avoid manual maintenance of sharing) or editable (to preserve the validated content) but are you aware of the making your own copy of the doc so you can dive under the hood/study them?

Go to 3 dots on doc title, scroll down and select copy.
please note, not all of the docs are able to be copied (depends on owner of doc) but majority would be.

second - to address your issue of form collection and meeting notes, apart from @Piet_Strydom solution, these may also help guide you into implementing your desired outcome

and as you can see in screenshot below, a simple search yields many threads of the same issue.
im not sure if its because of your initial hang up of inaccessibility or simply the lack of utilization of search bar, but i think doing this will help in what @Pablo_DV was referring to when he stated

whenever you have questions, spending some time thinking about how to ask them.

lastly - to try and keep orderly and good vibes of this great community… some background context -
a lot of us here started from the same place as you now. and others in the community shared and helped us become the makers we are today. Thats why i think you see so many of us try to give back / volunteer our own free time.
I dont think its too much to ask but to give the same respect and courtesy in return by (and BTW this applies to everyone and not singling you out by any means)

  1. searching forumn first
  2. if no answer/solution, then create a post but include a example doc or video. Also please be specific with your ask.
  3. when we do reply, please acknowledge the help given and address/reply back to said person.

i’ve seen on a few of your threads now of this (#3) occurring i.e. @Pablo_DV @Piet_Strydom offering a solution and its like they are having a one way conversation with themselves.
I experienced this as well.

There was a thread that after a solution i provided, you went off on a tangent with another question. Then i requested for you to start a new thread because its a different topic and you replied to that with another question. Then to my surprise when i came back to reply to it the next day, that last question was deleted and previous post edited to not include the question i asked you to start a new thread on.

overall we just ask to try to help us out as much as we try to help you.
im not sure you fathom in some instances of @Pablo_DV providing you complex solutions the time and mental load it would have taken to considerably read / reread/ mind read your issue/s at hand and to create an appropriate doc solution/s.

In hopes of you not feeling welcomed or that we are an unfriendly bunch, im still happy to help. but because a lot of your asks are conceptual and to coin term off Pablo “share stream-of-consciousness” - i think a better approach would be to provide you with the resources you can digest in your own time and intrepret to fit your use case :slight_smile:

Best,
Mel

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