Hello everyone and welcome back to another video it is
Francesco here your host on that Keep Productive YouTube channel seven today's video what we're going to be doing is taking a look at the
ever-growing
popularity wise
Coda and coda was an application that got released in late
2017 and essentially it's a Doc's application that allows you to create
interactive documents with the formats of excel and things like that
I will explain in more detail and just make sure before we dive in if you want to skip ahead to certain elements of coda
Or you are bit time poor then feel free to use the timestamps below
You can even skip this introduction and all of them may be more boring stuff as we get started so
You do use the timestamps below if you want to skip ahead
So this company was actually great to buy a Googler called Alex du de nuit and probably got the pronunciation wrong
It's a fellow former Googler who created this
With his team and their goal was really to
Try and create a new kind of productivity app combining
Almost like software or apps with your document experience now. This isn't something that we have brand new experience on
Quip Kip, I think it is qu IP
by Salesforce have been developing this over the last couple of
Maybe a year or two now
And applications like notion are taking another leap in this obviously Google Docs in Dropbox paper have been
present for a fair while now
Maybe two three years obviously Google Docs much longer and the long severe pat air table and Monday are making impression
But this is really more Docs focused and what I want to do today is give you my full opinion and first
Impressions to the application so you can see here
this is a sort of landing page that I got when I created my Kadir account and
You can create a new document and that's baseline from there like structure or you can import from Excel or Google
Sheets from Trello or from a CSV file, but in this case. I'm just gonna create a brand new document
And it's really simple is it getting started with you obviously create your no document and you pretty much get landed on paves
It's sort of looks like workflowy to some extent. I workflowy another sort of document focused application
But what i'm going to start doing is i'm going to create my first
coder
Document remember you can skip forward all of this if you don't find
It useful so here
We go on the left hand side you obviously have something called the outline which is for your sections and folders
You can create a new folder as well so for example if I was like you know top-secret
Documents, and I'm gonna create a section below it mess
Just below that you can see here, so
FBI files
I'm probably gonna get flagged up for this as you can see here once
You create a new section you can start modifying document per section so for example if I started typing in
Let me just rename this one to introduction
hello, everyone and
Then I went down to FBI files
Obviously it would be almost a separate document very similar to the way that OneNote separates stuff so here
We are with the obviously the introduction you get full text formatting obviously a large header the font looks quite nice
And you obviously get all of the bolding you can add mono spacing
Highlights as well so for example if I wanted to just highlight a bit of text
I can easily do that yet bullet points and these are all accessible in the keyboard shortcuts
And it's a hyperlinks insert emoji and even add or hide comments all of that and you can get the information
To the sections and you can also get an outline of the tables you've created inside of this so you're probably wondering
You know what more can I add of course?
There is this a magical plus button here where a great deal of information comes from and this is where it?
Brings together the likes of sort of like notion and Monday dope common other applications like that
So if I go to a new table I can create a new table in here
And it's interactive straight away now
I can even open this one up and actually see stuff inside it, but it's it's really simple table layout you can obviously
Retitle the table so you can put like proof of
Aliens, this is a really bad example. It's probably gonna be flanking me up for this and of course
Obviously you've got each of the columns
But you can modify one actually goes in the columns like you would inside an Excel document
Pretty much the extent you can even filter it
Um and and all of the different layouts you so you can add even card layouts if you wanted to
so if you wanted to go off for like a traditional believe it's the
Eisenhower method or the matrix even
You can do you can even go off a Gantt chart from here, too
So if you wanted to create a Gantt chart based on it
We'd start end dates and start end date and duration which is pretty impressive
So it's pretty flexible so that was adding tables and Gantt charts of course you can import it from
the likes of what a metric for Excel Trello
And that one you can add images very similar to the fashion that you would in a Google Doc or a draw box paper
You can link people or even rows you can create formulas, and you can even use control functions like sliders
information like that ooh there we get cool sliders a
date range picker a single select a multi select and
All that sort of loveliness and what's cool is I guess to some extent you can create your own team form document
But then not have the results at the end, so it's really
Manipulative to do however you like to set things up and of course you can use these search functionality so if I just put
Hello, it's me
And searched me as you can see it
Can you can work out where it actually comes from and skip to that different section so it's quite an interactive experience to some extent
um I
Think they might have confused some users in terms of this set up like being able to add a Gantt chart and add cards
But in this case what I want to do is show you their demonstration function which puts it more into sort of practice
And as we go into this one
You'll be able to see a bit more detail behind it so you can see here that they've added emoji
They've added the beautiful lists abilities
And of course they've got sort of like a nice overview of the sort of structure of it
And it's very easy to do so I thought it would be more detail if I'm honest
So I'm gonna go to gallery so gallery is an area that allows you to create your own set up so
very similar to notion templates
You have an even Monday com templates you have the ability to
Use their templates function to skip head
So you can create anything from Kanban projects all the way to project launch information
simple to-do list an interview day based on a database
if anything there's really like loads of
You know structures, and there's even people who have submitted their own, which is quite cool
So you can use all of these and I'm just gonna grab like a for example one
One that looks quite intricate. I'm going to use the project launch
Project launched hub, and I'm gonna copy the document so you can see the maker. It was Joe Demento for this one
He is one of the team over at
Coda so you can see here a copy of it goes into my file and of course I can manipulate
Anything in this, but you can start to see how?
Intricate it is obviously. I've got a good
Link to it everything like that
it's sort of like a onboarding document, but let's say I want to go to the master tracker and go to teams and
Tasks, you can see everything here
He's even added all of the details are and what's handily been started
and what hasn't so you you have the ability once you create that table set up to actually manipulate the
Sections here and actually have specific statuses, you can even add
indications of dates and even how much effort you gave per day, which is quite cool and
You can assign people to the different areas, too
So you can actually change who you visit this one's assigned to me. You can change who you've given it to
very similar to Monday comm
So in terms of that gallery section the templates section you can use it, however you like there is a range of categories
personal Divine Design
Event planning HR project management and a host of other ones
There's a simple Productivity section which will allow you to do things like GTD
even Eisenhauer their matrix and a lot of other things so it's very open and intricate and of course you can search it and
Submit your own now they do have a coder 1.0 at one
101's key word design formulas how to do all of these and
They'll give you as much help as they can and they've got a Help section and also code Academy?
Which is this section here sorry?
Overcomplicated that one so in terms of being able to learn how to do all this it seems like a pretty promising tool now
What I would say is that coda is very early days
I'm not sure. I like that for don't line bar on the left hand side but apart from that
It's actually pretty manipulative in terms of being able to create your own setup and get started
And of course inviting team members makes it easier as you go across your day
So there's lots of these in terms of coder challenge Monday comm this is actually probably one of the closest competitors
anyway guys
Hopefully that gave you a nice overview of code our Docs and let me know in the comments what you think about it again
if you pop a comment in the comments
I'll pick one of you out for a invite access to this one
And of course once to gain access you'll get access to some code
Anyway guys. Thank you very much for stopping by make sure a great week keep productive, and I'll see you guys very very soon Cheers