Treating Canvas like Pages (in some aspects)

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Moved to Coda a few months ago from Obsidian and Notion and it’s been perfect for me needs. I just have a few observations and suggestions I’d like to raise; tl;dr is: treat a Canvas / Note like a Page:

  • display the name or title of the “Row” we are currently viewing on the browser tab / title bar
    • currently, we only see the title of the Doc and Page where the canvas was accessed from; considering that opening multiple tabs for Coda is the workaround when working on multiple notes at a time without “split view”, having multiple tabs with the same name is not exactly ideal
  • show outline / table of contents (already suggested in Page outline on Canvas pages)
  • when navigating the browser back and forward, the Row you were on (not the source/originating page) should be where the user is returned
  • allow alternative text display for @ links to row
    • similar to the /link option with Coda pages, or with Markdown’s [[link|display text]] syntax
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The way I get two notes in split view is to open one note (row) in a table in detail view, then open another with row position set to right, then pin it.

Split Screen Notes

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Appreciate the input! I did not realize this was possible, but I do have a somewhat similar experience by using Edge’s split screen for this:

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This works fine for the most part, and I actually don’t feel the need to use split view very often — I’m fine with switching tabs, but therein lies the issue for me if the browser tab/title is just the Doc and Page instead of the Row title (i.e. if I end up having multiple tabs opened from the same Page, it can get a bit confusing and hard to find the specific one I want) & if the back and forward navigation doesn’t always route back to the Rows (which is why I usually just open links in new tabs and end up with multiple Coda tabs from the same page).

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+1 to all of these.
The back behavior is especially annoying and creates a lot of confusion from my coworkers in the some of the documents that I’ve built.

To add to this, currently if you link to a different table row in a modal it DOES have a back button in the modal and the back behaviour works as expected in the browser. I would like this to be extended to when linking within rows from the same table.

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