I saw this reposted on Forbes. I hope it gets more traction far and wide. Coda is so underrated. It's the Excel (but way more powerful) of our generation.
Craft doesn’t have full embeds, databases, interactions (buttons, forms), plug-ins (to link other services), and lacks the document-level collaboration options.
Having said all that, Craft does have splendid design and usability and great visual cards for sectioning out pages, plus an excellent mobile app, and it’s focused around a different set of use-cases so I find that they both work well for distinct purposes.
Thanks, Sree. I totally agree on the challenges you alluded to of persuading people to try a new tool - given how much work there is to do on the project itself, people can be understandably wary of spending time and effort on learning something new. They may also have been burned in the past by having invested time in learning something new only to find that they didn’t end up needing it in the long run, or that people moved on to other tools anyway. That’s one reason I particularly like the Coda full-page embed feature, because it allows others to continue using whatever tool they prefer - GDocs, etc and those docs can be put inside a Coda Doc even if that other person isn’t using Coda.
As for being an evangelist- I do like Coda and recommend it and find tremendous value in it, but I’m also frank about its limitations, although I didn’t have space to go into depth with all of them in this particular post. And as with other tools I love, I always want to be candid with people about not just what a tool does that’s great but also where it falls short and where other tools might actually work better and why. And I suppose only bold orgs would be open to an evangelist who is willing to be candid about occasional shortcomings. 😀Anyway, thanks for your comment!
Coda looks very interesting, especially to manage projects. Thanks for the tip!
I saw this reposted on Forbes. I hope it gets more traction far and wide. Coda is so underrated. It's the Excel (but way more powerful) of our generation.
How is this different from Craft? Seems like a lot of the same use-cases and features?
Craft doesn’t have full embeds, databases, interactions (buttons, forms), plug-ins (to link other services), and lacks the document-level collaboration options.
Having said all that, Craft does have splendid design and usability and great visual cards for sectioning out pages, plus an excellent mobile app, and it’s focused around a different set of use-cases so I find that they both work well for distinct purposes.
Thanks for the reminder about Coda. You showed it to us at #smwknd 2020. I used it for months and loved it.
Also, I love GDocs too much. And the inertia is strong in this one.
Also also, getting some clients to use GDocs is hard enough, can’t imagine getting them to try something they’ve never heard of. Sigh.
Coda needs to hire you to be an evangelist who can help get it into clients’ workflows.
Thanks, as always.
PS: Great subject line!
Thanks, Sree. I totally agree on the challenges you alluded to of persuading people to try a new tool - given how much work there is to do on the project itself, people can be understandably wary of spending time and effort on learning something new. They may also have been burned in the past by having invested time in learning something new only to find that they didn’t end up needing it in the long run, or that people moved on to other tools anyway. That’s one reason I particularly like the Coda full-page embed feature, because it allows others to continue using whatever tool they prefer - GDocs, etc and those docs can be put inside a Coda Doc even if that other person isn’t using Coda.
As for being an evangelist- I do like Coda and recommend it and find tremendous value in it, but I’m also frank about its limitations, although I didn’t have space to go into depth with all of them in this particular post. And as with other tools I love, I always want to be candid with people about not just what a tool does that’s great but also where it falls short and where other tools might actually work better and why. And I suppose only bold orgs would be open to an evangelist who is willing to be candid about occasional shortcomings. 😀Anyway, thanks for your comment!
Thanks for your detailed reply. Appreciate it.