"Stickies": Free-form layout of cards on a canvas

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stickies.io is a great little tool that replicates the experience of writing on stickies (post-it) notes and arranging them on a whiteboard. Use cases include mind mapping, brainstorming, clustering similar ideas into topics, experimenting with schedules and sequencing, and using spatial layout and distance as a mnemonic feature.

I’d love to see this in Coda. I think you’re pretty close, actually, with two changes:

  1. Add an option to keep embedded rows expanded into their card view (ideally, a customizable view with full Layout capabilities! awesome).
  2. Make embedded items (rows, cards, tables, charts!) re-positionable on the canvas by dragging.

What could possibly go wrong!?

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I’m fully supporting this idea!!! It has already been suggested, especially a mindmap style.

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I would love to see this implemented!

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I think this is a cool idea.

As far as I know, all other Coda table views rely only on data that’s stored in the cells of the rows.

Timeline and calendar views rely on start/end date columns (or durations). Card views are sorted based on what’s in their group column.

As a result a given view can be freely converted back and forth between other types of views of the underlying table data.

It’s a bit hard to decide where the stickie position data would be stored. Would you have a column for X and Y position?