Four things that will make writing in Coda much more enjoyable/usable:
- True Markdown support
- Better code blocks (with syntax highlighting etc)
- Layout blocks/components (eg; columns and dumb tables)
- A monospace font option would be nice
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while you canāt get a true monospace font, you can make things into code blocks and that will make it use a monospace font (+ some background formatting that you may or may not like)
I could move my whole company off Altassian on to Coda. Just require Markdown support for the engineering team. Be great if this could be prioritised up the list.
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Just found this thread. Imagine my surprise when I tried to paste a very simple Markdown buffer into a Coda document and it did not work properly. I guess I kind of expected that to be one of the first things that a modern document-oriented system would do.
It really does limit my confidence in being able replace competing platforms. Both Jira and ClickUp support Markdown.
How about this text box? Does it support Markdown?
well maybe not
Hmm it actually sort of -does-
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Itās really unbelievable that after all this time they cannot get this right.
For other users reading this: The competition (Notion) is able to parse Markdown properly. And copying from Notion to Coda does work so while not great, itās an easy way to get Markdown into Coda by using the competition as an intermediate step 
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Agree with Clarence. This feature and poor search in Coda is the reason why our engineering team is still on Confluence. They refuse to have technical documentation in Coda.
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Update: Sadly my company moved everyone over to notion but on the positive we are saying 
to confluence finally.
Our main stumbling blocks were adoption and MS sso support. Default log in screen in Coda (dashboard) was difficult for users to orientate and majority of screen not useful. Too many layers Dashboard > Workspace > Folder > Doc.
In notion we use one workspace and a simple folder tree to organise company wiki. You login you straight away see all the company resources and structure. Teams favourite folders they want quick access to. Onboarding super easy and intuitive. Engineering get their markdown support.
Totally gutted. Coda page level features and smart table are miles better than notion. Itās genius and easy to use. Case of right engine bad chassis.
the more I pester the coda team more likely they take on feedback fix the org structure and default view so their ahead of the game and create a product we can easily roll out company wideā¦ until then 
settling for the competition.
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Was excited when my Product Managers passed me this tool - until now - cant paste a couple hundred lines of markdown docs I just wrote into the toolā¦ Not sure Iām going to continue using it.
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+1. So disappointed markdown isnāt support :(.
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This would be super helpful.
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I was also shocked to see the lack of true Markdown support in a tool like this. I know chat applications that have better support for it! At the very least, inline code snippets and syntax highlighting are desperately needed.
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I was evaluating Coda for use as a company wiki, but without markdown conversion support my company literally cannot migrate to this platform because it would be far too much work to have to reformat every document we have. This is not just a nice to have, but a flat out must for interoperability and the ability for users to be able to migrate to your platform.
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Also disappointed to learn that there still is no native support to import/export Markdown/Textbundle. Back to Craft I guess!
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Hey Olivier! Iām curious, did you have a chance to try the Markdown importer we added recently?
If so, would love to hear any feedback you have 
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The import seems to work pretty well. Im wondering if you guys are still planning on copy/paste native support for markdown like Notion has?
The point of our organization moving to a low code environment with MD capabilities was to have a more centralized platform to get rid of certain applications and extra steps. Having to import defeats that purpose for us. We really love coda.io and would love to see this feature added rather than a multistep process import.
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Add me to the list of people that agrees that while import works first ā copy/paste Markdown would be the best option.
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Me too. I need native support to copy/paste markdown. Notion-styleā¦
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Ironically, with all the AI support being made available, no one seems to have realized that both search and markdown support could be addressed with AI itself.
AI, specifically AGI (artificial general intelligence), has its place, and there are vast opportunities to employ it for great user benefit. Innovators often mistake newfound AI capabilities as features.
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) straightens the line between what is known and what we need to know while adding our own context.
Codaās recently added AI features are nice, but I believe that energy is misdirected. Despite earning Coda a checkmark as an āAI companyā, AI features are not as powerful as AI benefits. I urge the Codans to reconsider its AI strategy by focusing how it might quietly improve the platform using AI.
Universal semantic search using embeddings is at your fingertips. You have the primitives to access the full text. Whatās stopping you?
I havenāt thought through the mechanics of solving the Markdown issue, but I sense that GPTās code interpreter and inherent ability for transformations hold promise in crafting the perfect universal interchange between native Coda markup and Markdown.
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I just ran into this when importing a CSV with a notes column in Markdown format to a Coda table. This does not import properly in Coda. And the same is true for exporting. I can use the āCanvasā field type to get something that at least allows rich text, but when I export these fields to CSV I get plain text without an of the rich aspects, and all the linked URLs are missing.
At a minimum, the Canvas type should be able to import / export as Markdown. At least then it would not lose potentially vital information (such as links).
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I agree with the need for basic native copy/paste functionality. Why do we need to go through the extra step of importing? I use this type of functionality multiple times every day. Iāve been using Coda since 2019 and I keep thinking that better markdown support would be added. Itās become obvious that the powers that be have no intention of adding the ability to copy/paste markdown into Coda. I prefer Coda over Notion because itās more robust, but Coda chooses to make this simple action more complicated. Iām tired of wasting time having to reformat everything I paste into Coda. I guess if I want this functionality Iām going to need to migrate my docs elsewhere.
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