I’m reaching out to the community as someone who has only opened CODA three times. My primary tools are Monday.com and Notion, and I’m a marketer without coding skills.
I genuinely believe CODA is a fantastic product. I dream about seamlessly using GPT and CLAUDE within documents, a feature I’ve always desired.
For the past year, I’ve been lurking in expert communities, admiring and envying their capabilities before returning to the mundane reality of Monday.com, which is a nightmare.
Surprisingly, I’m not using Monday.com for a company but for my solo projects, despite also paying for Airtable.
That’s how much I avoid CODA IO. Even YouTubers seem clueless, merely creating apps.
What I really want to say: Is there anyone who can share a genuine experience of using CODA as a tool for actual productivity, without resorting to useless “productivity hacks”? I’m constantly contemplating how terrible Monday.com is.
And please, don’t tell me coding or similar tasks are easy.
If there are any coders out there feeling offended, I apologize. I’m just someone who, while fumbling with Monday.com, envies all of you.
Coda has proved extremely popular for my use-cases: project-centric, cross-functional team collaboration where everyone has different login domain credentials.
When you’re working with teams like this, there is a tendency for people create Spreadsheets and share them via email - its a form of control & maintaining influence - its actually borderline toxic behaviour.
I’ve tried most ‘databases that look like a spreadsheet’ style products and yeah - Coda is popular, not just with me but the teams I work with - most our team members seem to get it - nor is it expensive.
Invest enough human capital in Coda, you’ll end up learning some coding skills - for sure - even if it’s just fundamentals via osmosis. It is not easy.
YouTube, in my oppionon, is a SEO cess-pit - they are clueless - because annedcotely they believe context about ‘producutivity hacks’ might drive some viewers to there channel.
