Quick open / switch documents

[Stefan_Singer]

Hi, maybe this is already answered elsewhere, but… We basically have one document per project and often jump between documents.

Would it not make sense to have the “workspace home screen” in a widget in the left sidebar instead of a link back to it? It’s not exactly a smooth experience to go back to the workspace to switch between documents

[Stefan_Singer]

How do others switch between documents? You go back out to the workspace?

[BenLee]

This is great feedback and something that we experience ourselves.

We have been working on navigation within the doc to better structure where things are and also to open up some room for more improvement. I can’t say if this will be something that ends up with a new structure, but it’s noted and discussed for sure.

Here are some of the in-doc navigation changes we’ve made recently…

Launched: New Table Configuration Panel

Tables and Views are some of Coda’s most fundamental, powerful building blocks. For quite some time, various settings and formatting options have been scattered about our UI. Today, we’ve pulled most of them together into one configuration panel. In addition to giving these settings a more uniform home that looks and feels more like other settings menus in Coda, our user testing revealed that this has the added benefit of allowing you to make changes (like configuring conditional formatting) wi…

Launched: The Explore Panel, successor to the plus button

As Coda has grown throughout the years, so has the number of places you might click to add building blocks like tables, buttons, drag-and-drop templates or lists. When we launched Quick Insertion (via the slash command) a few months ago, we heard your resounding feedback that (1.) it was helpful to have a faster way to add the building blocks you know and love, and (2.) the command also helped you discover new building blocks. Given that feedback, we spent weeks engaging in user testing and fin…

So we’re definitely exploring options. We’re also keeping the doc list in mind.

[Paul_Danyliuk]

I just load multiple docs in separate tabs
Is this somehow a problem for you @Stefan_Singer?

[Stefan_Singer]

Yeah the in-document improvements you’ve made lately have not gone unnoticed, I really dig them! I just wish I could jump between the documents in the workspace with less friction now

Den ons 13 maj 2020 20:15Ben Lee via The Coda Community <coda1@discoursemail.com> skrev:

[Stefan_Singer]

Yes, otherwise I would. I don’t tend to keep all projects I might need to visit open. Most my other project related software has got an “reopen recent files” menu etc, and I use it. I get that others might not

Den ons 13 maj 2020 20:58Paul Danyliuk via The Coda Community <coda1@discoursemail.com> skrev:

[Huayang_GUO]

Opening multiple docs is just a short term workaround. It isn’t the perfect user experience unless we can

• either navigates docs easily
• or there’s a way to connect data between docs (cross-doc not powerful enough).

[Tom_Laterveer]

I am surprised there is no easy way to switch docs in a split second. Notion has a Cmd+K which lets me jump to anyplace in Notion in a sec. As a keyboard shortcut freak I have a hard time understanding why I have to use my mouse for it. Or am I missing something?

[Stefan_Singer]

I’m starting to think Coda actually has more of a “everything in one doc” state of mind.

[Tom_Laterveer]

If everything is in one doc, then what is the easiest way to switch pages? There must be a way to do that with the keyboard right?

[Nate_Gerber2]

If the context switch from page to page (or specific DBview.row.modal to view.row.modal) can be planned as part of a navigation scheme for UX interaction across the doc then you can set up buttons to do the job - I believe Paul has some tutorials about it.