The Notion User's Guide to Coda (2022 Edition)

The Notion User's Guide to Coda (updated!)Using the Notion Importer What's Coda?

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Check out this table to see how every feature in Notion translates to Coda. The Supported column indicates features that are available in Coda, and the Imported column indicates that the feature will translate to Coda via the Notion export.

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Notion Feature Translation

Notion Feature Translation

Category

Notion Feature

Notes

Supported

Imported

Basic Blocks

Text Colors

Colors available: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Grey

Highlight Colors

Colors available: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Purple, Pink, Grey

Background colors

This will turn into a highlight color instead of a background color.

Comments

Comments are not exported in HTML. After importing, you can add new comments in Coda.

Callout

This will turn into a code block in Coda. And it will keep any emoji 🎉

Mention a Page

Depending on the information hierarchy in Notion, and the selection that you import, some page links may be lost. For example, if you export a page that references some other subpage not in your export, the link will not be imported to Coda.

Date

Most dates/date-times are rendered correctly as date/date-time pickers in Coda. Some formatting may be lost for durations or time zones.

Reminder

The date will be imported, but the action of sending a reminder will not carry over to Coda. You can achieve reminders using

Automations

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, and with Coda Packs for

Slack

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and

Gmail

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Multi column layout

Media

Embedded Audio + Video

Embedded audio and video render upon import to Coda, but especially large file uploads may not be included in your Notion export.

File

Page Icons

In most cases, we will translate the Notion icon to a Coda Icons8 icon. If we can’t find a match, the icon will be left blank.

Advanced Blocks

Template Button

Coda’s comparable feature would be

drag-and-drop templates

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Breadcrumbs

Coda offers breadcrumbs at the top of the page, but are these are not available as building blocks.

Databases

Board View

This will be rendered as a table in Coda. You can use the Table Options menu and select Board.

Calendar View

This will be rendered as a table in Coda. You can use the Table Options menu and select Calendar to achieve a Calendar View.

List View

This will be rendered as a table in Coda. To achieve a similar effect, hide most columns in the table.

Gallery View

This will be rendered as a table in Coda. You can use the Table Options menu, select Cards, and hide every column besides the Image to achieve a Gallery View.

Filtering

Filters are not included in the Notion expor. However, you can use the table options menu to quickly apply filters in Coda.

Page In Row

In Coda, this feature is called ‘Canvas Column.’ Subpages within a page-in-row in a Notion export will be rendered in a table within that Canvas Column.

Column Types

Rollup

The comparable feature in Coda are

Lookups

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. Use formulas to aggregate data in Lookups, whether it’s the sum of a column, the row count in a table, etc.

File

This feature was recently added to Coda, and will be available in the importer soon.

Phone

Phone numbers will as a Text instead of Phone Number type.

Equation

As formulas can’t be exported by Notion, the results of any equations you have will import to Coda, but the underlying formulas will not.

The good news is that you can pretty quickly apply formulas to entire columns of tables in Coda, or on the text surface (”canvas”) on a page. Plus, Coda’s formula language is incredibly powerful, easy to use, and reads like English. Learn more

here

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Created Time

This value can be extracted in Coda with the Created() formula, but won’t be exported from Notion.

Created By

This value can be extracted in Coda with the CreatedBy() formula, but won’t be exported from Notion.

Last Edited Time

This value can be extracted in Coda with the Modified() formula, but won’t be exported from Notion.

Last Edited By

This value can be extracted in Coda with the ModifiedBy() formula, but won’t be exported from Notion.

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