I think this must be on everyone’s radar, but would love a Notion-esque Home section for tasks/projects/events. Right now, setting it up is either a bunch of cross-doc tables, or sync pages, or maybe a master doc filled with all your task cross-doc tables, and you have to manually bring new doc’s tasks in from that master table (or vice versa I guess).
I’m assuming this is somewhere on the roadmap… curious about whether it is and when!
The starting assumption is that all of your information is in a single doc.
If there are people that should not have access to certain information, then the information that they should have access to is made available to them. There are multiple mechanisms to achieve this - sync pages, Coda’s cross doc pack, or any of a number of similar packs developed by the community.
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This isn’t how Coda works at any organization I’ve been a part of. Docs are made by different people for different purposes, and people are brought in to be a part of them by their creators. Tasks and projects assigned to me may come from docs I’ve made or docs other people have made.
Also, coda docs have separate purposes. I use one massive doc as an application tracking system, that has To Dos relevant to myself and others, and doesn’t make sense to build into a single doc that is supposed to contain everything. Would also slow everything else down.
The source of this is that a user at our org has asked how to see all the tasks relevant to them like they can on Asana. Right now, I have to tell them to build a new doc themselves with tables or pages syncing in. But even then that info is not integrated together, so they can’t easily see all the tasks and deadlines relevant to them.
Indeed, in the current Coda Workspace setup, notifying users outside a document requires granting them access, which isn’t ideal for sensitive information like PTO. Building individual integrations isn’t scalable either. A workspace-level notification center would streamline this process, keeping documents secure while efficiently communicating with employees. Current workarounds like using Slack are inefficient, and creating notification documents poses security risks.
Voting changed. I removed an existing vote, but that was not enough.
Thank you! I’d love this to go beyond notifications and also display the tasks themselves in one combined document. Not exactly sure how this would work - perhaps doc makers could categorize a certain table as a ‘tasks’ table and the combined document would automatically draw those in, taking task name, due date, details etc by default with the possibility of adding more fields.
you are right, it should handle more than notifications. Other mature alike software solutions offer this as well and it is all focused on becoming more productive. You cannot go to many docs, you want to go there for details.
when we take coda serious, we also need serious solutions 
This is EXACTLY the downside of “citizen development”. I am not saying that citizen development is bad, I AM saying that CD has certain features that needs to be managed.
Once the data in the docs and or the number of docs reaches a certain level of complexity; data and function design becomes extremely important.
It is very similar to the situation in the 1970’s when IT moved from file systems to database management systems. various parts of the business each had their own customer lists, and vendor lists, etc. This caused major data redundancies, which were resolved by centralising data management. Coda already has the functionalities to address this, but it is going to take some co-ordination within the organisation.
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That makes sense to me. Since the launch of sync pages and the like I have begun to think about “Organizational Schema” when it comes to Coda. In theory though a no-code solution shouldn’t require anyone to wear that IT hat, and the no-code solution should wear it for them. Because Coda is such a powerful, flexible tool this is tougher than in other places. Although I have not used it myself Notion Home looks like a compelling case for how this might be achieved.
Notion Home look intriguing.
It is interesting how the two products are diverging, 3 years ago they were very similar.
one of the pains a competing software tackled early in their development is this one:
I believe that Coda will get inspired by them, you cannot communicate easily without having an overarching communication center. It is indeed to avoid that people without it background and training can enjoy the many benefits of Coda.
I agree with this concept as well! As an entrepeneur, I have so many task lists to navigate for all of the businesses I own and the projects I manage. I would LOVE an easy way to merge all of the tasks from all of my orgs into one centralized location automatically so I can see my personal tasks across all orgs. Every PMS I know divides your tasks by organization so that you have to go to separate organizations to see your tasks for that org. I would love one place with all my tasks from all my orgs. I have tried to build this using a core database doc for all my orgs and then sync pages, but its pretty cumbersome in every day use so far.
The idea for Notion’s “Home” start page was carefully borrowed from ClickUp. And it is poorly implemented in Notion. ClickUp’s architecture originally implied a modular principle of building a workspace, and that’s why their “Home” start page looks much more organic and functional. Notion, in its turn, rather chased the trend and not for the first time borrows ideas from ClickUp, which it used to make fun of.
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In addition to this, I can say that such solutions are unlikely to appear in Coda in the near future. Beforehand, Coda will need to work significantly on the interface, optimize the grid of content blocks, better design the navigation and many other things, after which such solutions will look good. Right now, we don’t even have a multiview system for databases to compactly present a list of tasks.
Good to have this context. I haven’t used Notion Home so unfamiliar with how it actually rolls out.
Coda seem to be emphasizing the project management aspect of the platform in their marketing and if they’re serious about competing in that space a feature like this should be tablestakes imo. I can see how there’s a lot of work to get there.
Definitely agree that this is necessary. I wonder if we could potentially see a new column type of ‘Task’ that could solve this. The Coda home could bring together all rows where there is a Task column type and the current user is marked in an Assignee column.
