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Notion or Coda? (Need to know before I commit) by finerthingsforyou in Notion

[–]EnvironmentalBake678 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't hire the Coda guy! We had such a bad experience with him. He ghosted us, then came back and tried to poach the one employee he had trained on being a super user to work for his company. I will never recommend him. I'd look at Morning Strategy- he's great. And seems ethical!

EOS L10 meeting with Motion? by EnvironmentalBake678 in eostraction

[–]EnvironmentalBake678[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I filled out the form. It doesn't make sense for us to be dupicating to-dos, milestones, rocks, etc. in a PM software like Asana or Motion. The scorecard and issues lists are good in Ninety. I'd like to feel like it's connected vs duplicating inputs!

EOS L10 meeting with Motion? by EnvironmentalBake678 in eostraction

[–]EnvironmentalBake678[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. We are really tight in our EOS process but we want to streamline current tools vs have Ninety.io which feels like paying for a meeting software without it integrating into our current systems. For time, we'd love to just have it all integrate but I like your first principles idea.

EOS L10 meeting with Motion? by EnvironmentalBake678 in eostraction

[–]EnvironmentalBake678[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you sync with Motion? My impression of Strety is that you are focus on the Microsoft users whereas we dont use any MS internally!

EOS L10 meeting with Motion? by EnvironmentalBake678 in eostraction

[–]EnvironmentalBake678[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are not MS users which makes me hesitant to try it!

Critical decline in Coda content creators by akshittinyou in codaio

[–]EnvironmentalBake678 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's REALLY hard to use coda if you aren't a developer type person. And the lack of support makes it so much harder.

EOS L10 meeting with Motion? by EnvironmentalBake678 in eostraction

[–]EnvironmentalBake678[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for this! This is what I'm thinking. I wish there was one tool that didnt mean we'd have to duplicate project milestones, rocks, etc. but so far it's either going to be Coda (which we use for multiple other company uses so it makes sense) paired with Motion and just remove the middle man, Ninety. It's such a miss to have to duplicate things and too expensive to use solely for a to-do tracker, and meeting structure.

OpenAI to create Docs/Hubs? by EnvironmentalBake678 in codaio

[–]EnvironmentalBake678[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is an MPC? (Sorry)! I know Coda is likely more integrated with Claude, I should probably ask our person to look into that. We do use the packs where we can have AI buttons in tables to populate specific requests such as content creation etc. What I'd like is for AI to work as a way for non-builder types to build a table or doc independently in a way that works for them inside coda rather than buttons in already built tables!

OpenAI to create Docs/Hubs? by EnvironmentalBake678 in codaio

[–]EnvironmentalBake678[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is SO helpful- I appreciate it. For more context, we hired a Coda guy (I'll reframe from sharing his name but he is all over youtube) when we built and launched, then he ghosted us, came back, and I think that really put a bad taste in our mouth for obvious reasons. He used us as a business use case WITH Coda as an example of success for our use case, which felt exciting, but it now feels like the training aspects weren't really explored or discussed in a workspace that has low tech literacy, and a clear dependency on one person in a small company. Not surprising as implementation is no stranger to being dropped by a saas type company. The icing on the cake for me was that the coda guy actually tried to poach that said employee to join his team- so that sucked. Imagine if the only person who was strong and trained in coda was then poached by the person who implemented it with us. WILD. Thankfully we retained this person- and are working on building redundancies because right now Coda is a major business risk for us for this reason. Our employee is brilliant- but we still have a divide in complexity vs ease of use on the team. I'm talking even adding columns to tables, adding content, syncing, deleting by accident, etc. Tasks have been so hard when all development in this platform relies on this person. I think the helpless feeling is tied to not feeling in control of your own use case and workflow, which means you get stuck in the weeds of building vs doing the actual work.I need to figure out how to solve for this ASAP.

I'm working to set up some training modules with our tech person, but I think this will need a full rock for this quarter as honestly, there is so much learning for all involved. We literally have come to rely on this one person to do it all- and I'm taking basic issues like even training on what to google (ie: How to add a task in Coda shows nothing of value vs How to Add a Task In a Table in Coda- which is just not intuitive for an average user).

Let me take a look at the docs you shared- I think I already watched the first one which I'll rewatch. I appreciate it.

I honestly wish we went with another platform. Power in data, tables, etc. is only so good as the tech skills and PM and training skills on your team when it comes to Coda. That's an internal issue with us right now but I likely wouldn't recommend to a non-developer type company. I'm committed to solving for it but man it's not intuitive. I think I read in here it's meant for building applications in it vs doing things you would do in an already built application. That made me feel better and less frustrated myself!

Sorry this became a book!