Launched: Tabbed views

We’re kicking off the new year with a long-requested feature: Tabbed views.

Now you can bring your table, calendar, board, and timeline together in one place. No more jumping between pages or scrolling through your doc. Switch between views with just a click.

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What you can do with Tabbed views

Tabbed views function like bookmarks for your data. Each tab can have its own filters, sorts, grouping, and display settings, so you can quickly switch to exactly the view you need.

For example, you might use tabs to:

  • Plan work on a timeline, then jump to a task table for execution

  • Review “my tasks this week,” then switch to “needs review” to unblock your team

  • Set up role-based views so each teammate sees what matters to them—designers see design tasks, engineers see development tasks, and your PM sees everything, all in one place

Same data. Different lenses. Zero friction.

Get started with Tabbed views

To add a tab, open any table and click the + button by the table title. Your new tab appears alongside your existing view, ready to customize. You can rename tabs, reorder them, and set different display types for each one.

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Tabbed views are a new way to organize related views when it makes sense for your workflow. Your existing docs and views remain unchanged, and you can continue creating standalone views as you always have.

For more details and guidance, check out our help center article.

We’re excited to see how Tabbed views help you and your team stay organized. What will you use tabs for first?

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It goes without saying that there are several benefits to this, and central to tabbed views is the elimination of UX complexities that have been around as long as Views have been available in Coda.

For giggles, as I am prone to do, I tasked a Coda MCP-aware agent to build me an example similar to the animation. It expectedly stumbled because the MCP toolset doesn’t include the Tabbed Views feature. This raises a synchronicity issue with Coda APIs and MCP tooling that @Bharat_Batra will have to address. However, this AI automation exercise was ultimately successful once I gave the agent authority to use a browser subagent to complete steps that Coda MCP couldn’t handle.

Ideally, we’ll be able to ask agent platforms like Antigravity to optimize legacy Coda documents to take advantage of tabbed views and several other usability improvements. The agent will create a plan to modernize large and complex Coda documents. It will even validate the changes by running usability tests.

100% of this document was created from a simple prompt:

Coda's new tabbed views were released today. Please build a Coda document that demonstrates this new feature. https://community.coda.io/t/launched-tabbed-views/59430

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Great feature. I have a table with a bunch of views, and wanted to move them to tabs on the main table, but it does not look like that is an option. Some views live on a page, and some in table tabs and as far as I could tell there is not way to move them other than recreating from scratch. Minor bummer.

This seems like a great idea and feature… EXCEPT it isn’t appearing on my pages. What am I missing?

For anyone else experiencing this, I logged out and back in and now it seems to be working. Really not sure what the cause of that was

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This is so good!!! Thank you Coda Team!

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Love this! Already a hugely improved workflows on a number of docs today. Hoping there’s a plan to be able to summon existing views when creating a tab - it would make it so much easier to upgrade the more complex docs.

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Awesome feature recommendation!

In the meantime, I’ve been doing this. It’s like turning off a light switch with a wrecking ball, but it’s satisfying if you have a vast enterprise-level dependency on documents that need to be modernized quickly.

  1. Get on the MCP Beta. (@Bharat_Batra)
  2. Get the free Antigravity app from Google.
  3. Configure Antigravity to work with Coda MCP (documented in the MCP Beta Hub).
  4. Start a new agent and ask it to create a plan to perform a comprehensive review of a document [copy] (ID:xxx…) and make recommendations to merge related views into tabs (link to Coda Tabbed Views documentation).
  5. Preview and edit the plan as needed.
  6. Tell the agent to implement the plan and request authorization to use a browser subagent to perform any tasks that cannot be performed by Coda MCP.

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Hey Bill, thanks for raising! The team is aware of this gap; we have intentionally chosen to focus on optimizing MCP token consumption before adding new tools. Please keep the feedback coming to let us know which tools to prioritize :slight_smile:

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Ideally, we’ll be able to ask agent platforms like Antigravity to optimize legacy Coda documents to take advantage of tabbed views and several other usability improvements. The agent will create a plan to modernize large and complex Coda documents. It will even validate the changes by running usability tests.

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This is incredible and so inspiring to see btw!

I had the same experienc - the ‘+’ was not there in my existing document.

But I found that when I exited the doc and reopened it, it was there!

So maybe there is some ‘rolling out process’ going on behind the scenes.

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This is a very powerful piece of UX engineering.

I am revisiting a great many of the workflows I created for my clients and adding this feature to the key tables and views.

I am also educating my clients on how to harness this feature in their own work.

This has been a major difference between Coda and Notion for a very long time.

Real estate on the users’ page is extremely valuable. Having to navigate away from where I am to see different views of my information is a real cognitive burden.

This feature lets us provide a very intuitive and powerful way to explore and understand information inside a single compact space in situ.

Well done Coda team - take a bow!

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Great feature!
It says in the instructions that there are separate links to each tab. I didn’t get that. The links I get when right-clicking on each tab are identical.
Are there rest of you getting the same result?

For me, it opens the specific tab. Make sure that when you want to copy the link… you are “focused inside that tab“, so you have the blue focus.

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I love this feature, I think it’s well thought-out!

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Doesn’t help. It must be a bug. But thanks for letting me know.

Yes, I discovered this as well. There are some instances where I would like to move tables populated on separate pages to being on the same page in tabs. Having to rebuild from scratch means slower implementation.

I have used ClickUp for years to managing tasks. It used to be simple and intuitive. Then they tried to be all things to all people and it became bloatware. One day they upgraded my account and I couldn’t find anything and it ceased to make my workflow easier and faster—it was actually making things worse. So I started building my own task manager and the next day Coda announced this new Tabbed Views feature. I implemented tabbed views for tasks showing “Today”, “Next 7 days”, “Next 30 days”, and “All Tasks” and it is working great. Thank you for this feature that makes switching between views more intuitive on the same page!

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Great idea!

I have used tabs for another purpose, but never thought about using it to manage my calendar.

This is triggering some ideas.

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Ohh, you tried via ObjectLink()… yeah that one is producing some weird output. I was talking about the manual option that you have.