Hey guys @Paul_Danyliuk and @tomavatars really appreciate you chiming in. Tom, late to the party you obviously fully aware of Roam, so I guess you can add my sentiments to yours, and thanks for linking it, haha! That is in fact exactly what I’m talking about, the ease of creating these relationships fluidly.
Paul, I agree with everything you said. And I think you’ve hit on a huge need Coda has started to solve, for better or for worse, and that precisely it can potentially be used to handle just about all a team manages in one place, especially tech/internet start-up From my speaking with the Coda team the last year, it’s unclear to me if that was an intended goal of the Coda vision, but Coda has been so well thought-out that it is about the best thing out there I’ve seen that could meet this need. And I, for one, really would like a tool that can do this! My team really suffers from issues we face using separate tools for (a non-exhaustive list):
- Chat (Slack, Twist, Discord, etc.)
- Task Management (Wrike, Asana, Clickup, etc.)
- Repo mgmt (Github, GitLab, Bitbucket)
- CRM (Salesforce, Hubspot, etc.)
- Dev Mgmt (Jira, TargetProcess, PivotalTracker, Rally, etc.)
- Wiki (Confluence, Quip…)
- Product Planning (Aha!, ProductBoard, ProdPad, etc.)
- Support (Intercom, ZenDesk, etc.)
- Outsourcing Mgmt (Hubstaff)
- Diagraming (LucidChart, Miro, etc.) - and you even offered a solution of this one!
I’m pretty sure there is a growing market of users who’d like to solve all this with one tool. I have found middleware like Zapier, Integromat and so forth conflate the problem further as you are going to need a dev to set those up. And you raise another point @Paul_Danyliuk that is huge - Coda is for humans and I think it continues to get easier with each release. So a non-dev like myself has a realistic chance to set up a lot in Coda to handle what all those varied apps are designed to do.
And yes Paul, the linking provided by this software Discourse is actually something that works very similarly to what I would like to see, I even commented on it earlier!
Finally, just a point re: journaling software - I definitely do not see Coda as that sort of solution, even though it is all-the-time compared to Notion. And by mentioning Roam, it’s not with the intent that Coda would build in that type of functionality. For things like replacing Confluence and team wiki functionality, which Notion gets used for a lot, I think Coda is already very strong. I have spent a good deal of time trying to see if Notion could do what I’m trying to set up in Coda, and not even close…
Thanks again guys!