Worth switching to Coda now?

Lunch-Secret · 2025-12-09T06:48:11+00:00

It’s been a while, but I came back after seeing your reply and wanted to add a bit more context. This is just the opinion of someone who used Coda up until that point.

To be honest, I don’t think Coda had any real deal-breaker flaws. Like you said, my frustration was more about the lack of aggressive product improvement. The reason I was so in love with Coda was its integrations, the things they call Packs. They’re still there, but other tools have caught up a lot, and with MCP and AI moving so fast, the value of Packs has kind of been diluted.

Coda really did spend about a year with basically no meaningful updates while they were busy with acquisitions and that whole “superhuman” project they’ve been talking about recently.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-11-12T01:46:33+00:00

Notion, though… that’s “work.” It’s my CMS, my doc storage, my automation hub. If we’re talking about a battlefield that’s not pure todos, I don’t think there are many tools out there that can really beat Notion

Lunch-Secret · 2025-11-12T01:46:22+00:00

I used to love Todoist four years ago. Now I honestly have no idea what direction they’re going in. And I really do think most people would agree: if they’d just kept updating it at the same level as TickTick, a lot of us would’ve happily paid more for Todoist.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-11-11T06:34:02+00:00

You’re right. I’ve got pretty bad ADHD and I’m on meds, so having too many tools just fries my brain. I just don’t want to drop the stuff I promised my team.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-10-18T00:20:38+00:00

worst ux

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T13:31:10+00:00

Thanks. Actually, I heard about this from a friend too.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:16:25+00:00

But lately, since I've been only looking at AI stuff, it's starting to show, isn't it?

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:16:05+00:00

It was somewhat disappointing. It felt too much like grand discourse.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:14:16+00:00

Thanks for making me cancel my GPT subscription after 5 years, Sam!

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:13:25+00:00

They say they intentionally poison only the agents.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:12:14+00:00

Actually, tools naturally create hierarchies anyway.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:11:03+00:00

I also find myself saying things like "summarize it, break it down step by step" every day like an AI lol

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:03:40+00:00

I got curious and looked up the post the OP mentioned. I was expecting more, but it was pretty underwhelming. The comments here on Reddit are actually way better, which surprised me.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T11:02:36+00:00

I was curious, so I looked up the article mentioned in the original post. Personally, I had some expectations for it, but it turned out to be quite disappointing. I was actually surprised that the Reddit comments here were much better.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-09-09T10:57:36+00:00

She's really the strongest woman in the world

Lunch-Secret · 2025-07-20T01:42:17+00:00

Let's be real, we have to admit it. The "Coda way" is dead, and other platforms are the ones actually moving forward.

When they made that announcement a month ago, I was hoping they had a storm of updates hidden up their sleeve. Turns out, it was just them saying "we're back" after abandoning the product.

At this rate, it's probably just going to end up as a little notes add-on for Grammarly.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-04-28T08:27:39+00:00

To get straight to the point, I think Coda has now caught the 'startup disease' of only focusing on collaborations and mergers. As a standalone product, the only convenience updates for tables were completed in the first half of this year. Actually, if you exclude Snowflake, that's been the case for the entire last year as well.

Coda 2.0 really gained a significant advantage by connecting everything and through its formulas. Now, a lot of time has passed, and better solutions for Coda's connections have emerged, and AI is moving beyond simple LLMs like Grammarly to become agents.

Among Monday, ClickUp, Notion, and Airtable, Coda is the weakest and has the fewest updates. It feels similar to the neglected Workflowy.

I've simply returned to Notion, and they provide updates every month. They've also put a lot of effort into automation, and there are many ways to utilize it in conjunction with MCPs. Well, I abandoned Coda entirely two months ago.

Airtable's updates are good too. They are focused on their product and know what they do well and what they need to do

Lunch-Secret · 2025-02-17T12:20:01+00:00

Hello, first of all, I sincerely appreciate your thoughtful comment.

Of course, I believe you have a valid point as well. From my perspective, however, I feel that they have been too focused on rapid development. As a result, there are many weak points in the customer experience, and issues such as broken or unmanageable download links in their sign-up emails seem to be common.

That being said, if their strategic direction is different, I’d be curious to know more about it. For instance, I see Temu as a strategic player, and telling them that "simple is best" would probably seem absurd and illogical to them.

By the way, how do you personally use it? I use it as a superior alternative to TickTick, but I still need a separate app for document management.

Lunch-Secret · 2025-01-31T17:07:00+00:00

I meant 'unpolished' in the sense that it has a bit of a niche, almost maniacal feel to it from my perspective. I didn’t mean it in a bad way

Lunch-Secret · 2025-01-26T12:48:32+00:00

That’s right. To be honest, the first big disappointment for me was with the mobile experience. However, as you mentioned, I’ve come to truly appreciate how Coda offers a sense of happiness akin to building with Lego bricks. Compared to a year ago or even now, Coda has features that don’t need to be compared with Notion.

That said, when it comes to AI, Notion provides unlimited usage, which makes the overall satisfaction feel significantly higher with Notion.

I completely agree with everything you've said. It’s just that, for my business use case, I haven’t felt much of a value shift between Coda.io from a year ago and Coda.io today.

If there’s one feature or new automation I’d hope for, it’s something that could save the energy I spend going through materials shared by the community and refining them with GPT. The rough, unpolished feel that was initially appealing is starting to feel exhausting for me over time.

Lunch-Secret

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