After months of near silence we have yet another big “announcement” of vague promises regarding stuff that I (and I suspect many) have no real interest in.
What I want is for all the frustrating little pieces to be fixed / improved / implemented.
I used to tell anyone and everyone about coda. I don’t do that anymore.
I would never recommend it to others, and in fact have been warning people away.
I only remain because I have invested a lot of time in it. But the business that I run will shut its doors in the next year or two and then I won’t have any further interest in coda. If things change in that time I’ll reconsider but I no longer live in hope of that.
As others have commented, the communication is seriously poor and the C-suite appear completely out of touch with users (Apple style).
Meanwhile this year I have been watching other apps make big strides, with regular and consistent updates.
Such a shame because coda could have been so much more.
This very much feels like a cart before the horse situation. It’s like these companies want us to use ai not the other way around. I get the vision, but ai is still frustrating to use. You would think it would be really good at figuring out formulas for coda, but it isn’t. It wasn’t able to connect to my Gmail. That could have been nice.
When I really think of things I need coda to do I never come up with ai.
I need to share a single page. This is the single most needed use case for me.
I need to turn pages into pdfs and be able to control page breaks. Printing needs to be better.
I need coda to handle pdfs natively, to be able to add signatures, text boxes, highlighting etc
I need a working mobile experience. It’s really really really odd to me that a company who’s pitch is docs that act like apps, yet don’t work on phones!
I need to be able to copy and paste cells from a spreadsheet and have the option for paste to keep the same format and layout.
I need a better way to handle images. I have so many images I just end up pasting into coda which I feel slows down coda a ton. If I could connect Google photos and be able to have pictures be pulled from and added to coda without slowing down my docs.
I constantly feel like coda is spending most of their time developing features for work flows that don’t exist yet and spend the least time addressing work flows that everyone uses.
I can’t even use cross doc or the api for my main doc because it exceeded the API limit. what good is the promise of AI if I have to manually copy and paste new rows into my db every 2 hours???
Hi @Jules_Monza ! We should wait until it’s clear exactly how the price is structured and what functionality will ultimately be provided. For example:
Does the “Coda Bundle” also include the option to invite editors to the created documents for free if those editors have a free account in “Coda Standalone” (or will there also be free accounts for the Superhuman Suite – which I can hardly imagine)?
Can the invited editors also create pages or tables, or can they only work with existing data?
Does the “Coda Bundle” include the option to add the AI assistant that can be active in the table, and how much will that cost? (If I understand correctly, the bundle should then include two AI assistants: the one integrated into Coda and in addition, “Go” as a universal AI agent).
Depending on the plan, “Coda Standalone” includes various packs that can be used. Further development of these packs to increase their capabilities and integrate AI assistants is planned. Will this further development also apply to “Coda Standalone”?
I analyzed Coda’s help pages together with the AI assistant “Go”. Some questions remain unanswered. Perhaps one of the Coda team members could shed some more light on this.
Here is the Link from Coda that should help you to move Docs: here. But I´m not sure if it really helps. Greatings
As an addendum @Jules_Monza : Coda is organized at the workspace level. You pay for the plan that applies to the respective workspace. If you move the documents to a different workspace, you will need to subscribe to and pay for the same plan there to have the same functionality. If your current plan still has a longer remaining term, you might want to wait until the end of that term before initiating the change. I don’t think there’s an option for a refund. If you have an Enterprise plan with an associated domain, there may be other aspects to consider.
I tried several ways, but I can’t create records in a Coda table using the agent. How can I do it? For example: I’m in my Gmail inbox, I open Superhuman in the right bar, and I want it to add a task (a record in a task table in a document).
I am beginning to feel that Coda is by techies, for techies.
The basic nocode functionality is still the best out there, but that market segment is lost to the latest and greatest tech innovation.
I sincerely hope that @shishir will resist further Great Leaps forward, and get the basic product working.
We had the pivot to AI, then the branch into Snowflake and Coda brain. That faded, and then the next big thing was Grammarly. Then the jump to superhuman mail - which I tried but found underwhelming. Now superhuman go, with another confusing and half-baked product announcement.
What I’ve found out so far is that the AI assistant “Go” can read some currently active web pages and then answer questions about them. However, it doesn’t have access to other open tabs in the browser that aren’t currently active. If Coda is open in the Chrome browser, it can’t access it at all, at least not on my system (Windows 11). It can’t read or access text in the canvas, and certainly not in a table. So, if I had to single out one of the existing AI assistants, it would be the somewhat outdated one that can work within tables and also in the canvas. As I understand it, further possibilities open up through the integration of an MCP server. This new technology should then also enable actions and operations within a Coda document in the future (God willing). The AI writing assistant, formerly Grammarly, can become active on various websites; if I need to write text on a website, it reads along and makes suggestions for improvement. I would have expected it to do the same within the Coda canvas when I’m writing text there. But that didn’t work for me, and the writing assistant didn’t activate even in an inserted control, a text field. This is all still very new, and it’s possible that it’s due to my specific configuration. I’ll test it further. Oliver
Agreed! It looks like a fun play for techies who want to build a prototype on basic UI and can build their own extensions to bypass the limitations. With Firestore, Leap, Dreamflow, etc. it is now not too difficult to prototype either. And the techies are likely already with these vibecoding/agent-assisted dev tools. As a no-coder, I’ve already created pretty complex prototypes myself. Once one of these provides a baseline stable templates with profiles, access rights and then give the option for no-coders to build on top of it with vibecoding + simple UI building blocks - it’s likely game over for the current generation of no-coding tools.
We are not there yet, and maybe never will be. The one benefit of Coda for non-techies like me is that its prototypes can actually be put to a real test and maybe even do some actual work with them for a year or two.
However, the life of a prototype is not very long. And if Coda needs to go beyond that, they’d better start listening to the community. We’ve already told them many times what and how to fix, so that we can transition from prototype to a long-lasting product.
I hope that finally canvas fields are managed as docs, while now their use is severely limited by lack of linking to specific blocks, no table of contents, no API to manage rich text…
Hi, @anon1959570. You can continue adding Coda editors to your Superhuman workspace for free. They’ll be considered free members of your Superhuman workspace and will not have access to paid features across products in the suite.
Hi, @anon1959570. I shared a similar answer to another reply of yours in this thread, but wanted to address it here as well. You can continue to add Coda editors for free. They’ll be considered free members of your Superhuman workspace and will not have access to paid features across products in the suite.
Any paid Superhuman suite users will automatically receive a Doc Maker seat in Coda.
Hi, @Joshua_Richardson-Duffy! We’re thrilled to hear you’re excited about the update and we’re looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Superhuman Mail. To answer your questions: Yes, you can connect multiple email accounts to a single Superhuman Mail account, e.g., your personal and work accounts. Right now, the team doesn’t have plans to create a unified inbox. We hear this feature request fairly often, but we’ve been focused on higher-priority items for our users, so we haven’t been able to address it.
I agree. I asked a similar question several times on the “we’re listening” thread from earlier this year and no one from coda shared a definitive timeline. My excitement has largely become apathy on this topic. I’m operating under the assumption that it isn’t coming, at least anytime in the next six months and possibly not even in the upcoming year.
In the meantime, my team is planning for and has already started to use alternatives that allow us to store more content. I love coda but these announcements are just to vague for us to plan around.
I hope I’m wrong about this and someone from Coda comments otherwise.
Hi, @Edan_Ben-Atar. If you sign up for the bundle, you will get Coda as a part of the plan. I’m not the expert to chat about migration and what plan would cover all your needs. I feel that with our new suite, we can cover a lot of what Fibery can do, but our Customer Support team would be able to help a lot more.
Hi, @Jules_Monza. Happy to add a bit more context here. Currently, there is no automatic way to transfer your docs from your current Coda workspace to the bundle.
However, if you would like to purchase the bundle, a new Superhuman-linked Coda workspace will be created for you, and you can manually transfer your docs over to the new workspace. Some pointers on that here.
Hey, @Marinda_Carelsen. I’m sorry to hear about this experience and the confusion caused. I believe you’ve been in touch with our support team, so I’m glad they were able to help get everything sorted for you. We appreciate your patience and your passion for the tool. If there are any other questions or concerns, please let us know.