No idea if anyone reads these, but I have to say. I had just switched over to Notion. I’ve loved — LOOOOOOVED — using Coda for the last year or so, and have built all sort of crazy personal productivity systems with wonky zapier integrations and bla bla. But ultimately, I was finding myself very hamstrung by how difficult it is to use Coda for the simple activity of taking notes. I tried using the big text editor you can spawn in a table row. Too janky (like you can’t really do anything outside of that window without losing the window, and it doesn’t do as much as the raw pages can do). I tried building integrations with other systems. The best I came up with was creating a button in Coda that linked to my Dropbox Paper account, creating a new doc there, and then coming back and inserting the URL to that doc back into the Coda row, so from that point on I could just click a separate “view” button on that row and have the Paper doc load based on the URL. This actually worked quite nicely, but still felt kind of annoying. Like if I had to jot something down quick in Paper, I’d have to remind myself later to link it back up and so on.
The Pages tool, this simple restructuring, caused me to immediately re-up my Coda subscription (or at least stopped me from cancelling, which I’d have done with a sad face). While it doesn’t get me exactly what I need — I SO WISH there were a way to reference Pages within Tables, without manually copying a page URL and pasting it in to a row — it is both similar to and better than what I was doing with Dropbox Paper. And as I was switching to Notion because it had a better blend of “note taking tool with relational database”, and note-taking is a huge part of my job, the fact that Coda now has its own built in way to at least get me most of the way there keeps me here. Thank you thank you thank you.