I am creating a project tracker for my company and am having a hard time conceptualizing how to structure the system.
The easiest way is to have a single doc that has a page for each doc and subpages for each page (project). My concern is that over time there could be a significant amount of projects to store on one single doc (200+). Usability becomes an issue (speed of use, ability to find a particular project, etc).
Those issue led me to have one doc as a center dashboard that would show overall project status and a separate doc for each project. The issue is how to have those individual project docs sync with the main dashboard without manual entry (the group I work with won’t use the system and their be errors if its really manual).
I’ve looked Sync packs, but I am getting lost in how to set it up.
Any help envisioning how this would work would be MORE than appreciated.
I’m not a Coda expert like several that regularly reply to this community. Still, I can help you with general best practices for structuring your data with performance & maintenance in mind. I’ve learned the hard way the past two years I’ve adopted building docs as a fun hobby to help with process gaps within my 70-person organization.
The more specific the problem, the more helpful the community is. You’d likely want to start a shared doc and begin conversing with someone in this situation. I’m happy to hop on a call and share my experiences in hopes of helping your company!
It’s sometimes nice to chat with someone on or closer to your level rather than someone 3-4 steps ahead.
Personally I like to keep everything in a single doc, as long as possible. There are two topics that force a new doc. One is confidentiality. Once somebody has access to a doc, they have access to all of the doc. The second topic is size. But I do not think that 200 pages in itself is going to cause performance problems.
As you point out, it is not trivial to collect data from several different docs.
Some questions - these sources of product documentation, would it be coda pages, or a different tool?
How much information are you looking at recording? Action items, or feedback summaries?
I’ve adopted building docs as a fun hobby to help with process gaps within my 70-person organization.