After experimenting with different approaches to the time-consuming whack-a-mole of hunting for AI-enabled columns, here’s what turned out to be the fastest approach for me.
- Ask Coda support to give you a list of your AI-consuming docs.
- In each doc, open the doc map in your right-hand sidebar by clicking on the gear icon in upper right, then scrolling down to Doc Map.
- Click through the doc map to highlight each listed table (you only need to click through the main tables, not the alternate views of each table). As you do so, keep an eye on your LEFT-hand sidebar: as you click each table name in the doc map, the page containing that doc will be highlighted in the left-hand sidebar. (You may have to scroll up/down through the list of pages to see what is highlighted.)
- As you find each page in the left-hand sidebar, ctrl-click on it in the left-hand sidebar so you open it in a new browser tab. Do this until all table-holding pages are open. (If you have lots of tabs, Coda may stop loading the pages, but you can just refresh those tabs when you get to them.)
- Click through each tab in turn to find the table(s) on each open page. When you find each table, click “columns” at top of the table to see a list of its columns in right-hand sidebar. Once you see the list of columns, look for the ones that show a little AI “magic” icon.
- Click on each AI-enabled column in the right-hand sidebar, and click “remove AI” from there. (You don’t have to click into the table itself.)
This is NOT a fast process, but it’s faster than the other approaches I’ve tried, including installing the Doc Explorer pac to get a stable list of tables. (Because Doc explorer shows you each view as a separate table, so you end up duplicating effort.)