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.