Notion entered the world in 2016 as re-imagined wiki. Their insight was that file cabinets and paper were an antiquated way of tracking work, so you shouldn't have to use the same metaphors on your computerーespecially online. They have since raised $340M (
Coda came out of Beta in 2019 as an all-in-one doc for teams. Their observation was that while the physical analogs to documents and spreadsheets might be separate things in the real world, that doesn't mean digital versions must adhere to these constructs. Despite Microsoft (and later Google) perpetuating these constructs, Coda is re-imagining the doc with no barriers between words and data, having raised $240M (
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