Tables & Views
Tables & Views

Tables & Views

When you import to Coda, your Notion boards and other views of data will be represented in their base form: tables. Don’t worryーit’s quick and easy to turn any table into a variety of visualizations, including cards, calendars and charts.

Simply hover over a table, select “options,” and then choose your preferred visualization. From this menu, you can also apply filters, sort your data, group your data, and add conditional formatting.

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Coda just shipped an awesome update to their card views, which can help you make everything from galleries to kanban boards. The lead PM and Designer on the update published a doc that you can copy to try out different patterns; you can find it here:

Making the most of Cards⁠

A note on relations & rollups vs. lookups

Relational databases are a key construct in both Notion and Coda. The implementation, however, differs slightly between products. In Notion, a Relation is a way of linking entries of two tables, and Rollups allow you to extract some information rom this connection.

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Coda offers lookups⁠

, which allow you to similarly connect data, and then use Coda’s formula language to summarize and pull data out of these connections. Here’s a quick example of how to set this up:

Coda Lookups Example⁠

Charts & Data Visualization

Coda’s tables function as relational databases, which enable a variety of chart views for your data. In addition to cards and calendars, you can transform a table into any of the following:

Bar charts

Pie charts

Line charts

Area charts

Scatter charts

Bubble charts

Gantt charts

Word clouds

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Simply choose the ‘Chart’ option from the Table Options menu, and select your chart type via the top drop-down menu.

Filters

While filters do not carry over from Notion, you can apply filters using the same ‘Table Options’ menu. You can filter by pre-populated criteria based on your column type, or custom formulas.

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Formulas

Compared to Coda’s expansive and powerful formula language, Notion’s equations feel like a middle school math quiz. 🙈 I’ve gone into greater detail in the