Everyone!
I’m Ayuba on the Coda product team. We know that many teams use Coda as a central source of truth, ranging from client and project tracking, all the way through to company OKRs, knowledge hubs, and more. Over time, we’ve seen two common challenges arise and we’re working to solve them:
- See data your way → As different people and teams use centralised data, it’s common to make views, so they can see the information in a way that makes the most sense for them. Before, when a substantial number of views were created, it would heavily impact the performance of the doc. Soon, we’ll be much smarter about how views work, so you can add hundreds (or even thousands) of views without worrying about slowing your doc down.
- Only load the data you need → While centralising data is useful for standardisation, you usually only want to work with data filtered for yourself, your team, or a specific project. Before, even if you were viewing a heavily filtered set of data, we’d still eventually load everything in the doc behind the scenes. Soon—and in conjunction with the data layer updates from my friend Fil, we’ll load only the data needed to show you what’s on the page you’re viewing. This should allow for a much faster experience in larger docs—even on mobile!
And, as I’m sure many of you may have guessed, more granularly loading data is also an important step to delivering on our secure sync-page milestones. We’re hard at work making your docs faster, more secure, and easier to use.
Many thanks to this community for your continued feedback and partnership as we work toward this ambitious goal. We’ll continue to share updates as we have them and I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts, so please sound off in the replies!