@ mention

Connecting ideas, concepts, people, and processes

One of the most fun ways to connect knowledge within your Coda doc is to start connecting ideas, concepts, people, and processes. You’ll be surprised how many times different teams cross-reference each other’s work, or an organization where many items link up to a single objective (well, that’s the goal, right?).

To start, just type @ in the writing canvas or in a table cell and you’ll be able to reference the following:

People

Just like in Twitter or Slack, you can @mention people on the doc to reference them and notify them that they’ve been added.

Example: 👋

@Elaine Sohng⁠

Pages

Reference pages when you’re talking about a topic that’s related to another area.

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Examples:

This page is a subpage within the

Building Blocks⁠

page and is somewhat related to the

Outlines⁠

page.

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https://coda.io/@john/wiki/teams-4⁠

: Mentioning each of the pages related to the teams as both a glossary as well as a pseudo table of contents.

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https://coda.io/@dave/sales-playbook/process-9⁠

: References a previous page (Framework).

Tables

Reference entire tables so that when a user clicks on it, they go straight to the data source.

Examples:

The

Knowledge Hubs⁠

table holds the best showcases of what a wiki, playbook, etc looks like in Coda.

Rows

Mention rows to give specific context to writing, notes, conversations.

Examples:

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https://coda.io/@john/wiki/weekly-company-34⁠

: Mentioned the “Give back day” in the topics which is an event (row) in the Events Calendar.

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https://coda.io/@john/wiki/dashboards-18⁠

: Defined “MRR” by creating a Dictionary Table (

https://coda.io/@john/wiki/dictionary-28⁠

) with rows of terms and definitions.

Pro tip:

Deep linking

Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.

Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (

CtrlP

) instead.