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Team update Snippets

Asynchronous status updates to help your team move faster

To configure this asynchronous status-sharing tool, the only configuration needed is to set who is on your team and where you want the updates to be shared.

Once configured, everyone can write their snippets by just hitting the big green button above the table of snippets. To streamline the tool for their use, you can move these first setup sections to a sub-page, or just collapse them.

Who’s sharing updates?

Add your team members to the table below so they get private reminders through Coda’s

Slack Pack⁠

to write a status update (if they haven’t already started one):

Team members

Team members

Teammate

Patrick Barry

Audrey Bauer

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Don’t use Slack?

You can hook up our

Teams⁠

Gmail⁠

packs instead!

See reminder message preview

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Friendly automated reminder :) Can you write an update snippet in our team status doc ⁠ ?

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Where should status updates be announced?

This doc will automatically send a Slack message to the

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channel reminding folks to read everyone’s snippets on this doc.

See announcement message preview

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We have 2 new status updates to read in our team updates doc ⁠ ⁠

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When should everything happen?

By default, this template runs a weekly cadence with reminders early Friday afternoon and status announcements on Monday morning, but, like everything in Coda docs, you can customize that!

🏃 You can run a daily status sharing cadence instead

This doc is pre-loaded with automations for either cadence, so you can just toggle this button on to switch to daily mode:

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The daily cadence will run on

Monday

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🕑 You can adjust the times that Slack messages are sent

You can set the days and times that all the Slack messages get sent. In the top right corner of this doc, go to

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then select Automations.

You’re ready to use the tool

You’ve finished the setup process! The only thing your team members need to know is to press this big green button whenever they get a Slack reminder. It will give them a writing canvas pre-tagged with their name and the date.

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Add a new update
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For best results, status updates should:

Be oriented around projects, not just stream-of-conscious

Include links so interested folks can dig in to learn more

State your plans for the next week (or day)

Read everyone’s Snippets

Is old?

When

Who

Update

When

Patrick Barry

Project Nigiri

Rolled the tamago

Removed the wasabi per

request from the Chawanmushi team⁠

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Marketing

Tried to recruit Jiro as an influencer

Next week plan

Record first draft of the documentary

11/4/2024, 9:31 AM

Audrey Bauer

Project Nigiri:

Cooked the miso

Ranked the top edamame producers across several dimensions -

link⁠

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Plan for next week:

Visit Tsukiji market

Go fishing

11/4/2024, 9:31 AM

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What Snippets are shown by default?

The automations in this doc automatically track when announcements go out in the controls below, so the table can automatically filter itself intelligently.

Most recent announcement:

Mon, Nov 4, 9:01 AM

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Prior announcement:

Mon, Oct 28, 9:03 AM

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To see older Snippets, feel free to play with the filter bar on the table — those are personal controls that don’t affect how other users see the table.

Want to take this tool to the next level?

Coda has hundreds of Packs to pull in your team’s data from wherever it is!

If you’re an engineer, you might use the

GitHub Pack⁠

to automatically share recent Pull Requests, maybe with

this template⁠

from Coda’s gallery. Or the

Jira Pack⁠

, the

Gitlab Pack⁠

, etc.

Other folks might be more interested in Coda’s

Salesforce Pack⁠

Asana Pack⁠

Figma Pack⁠

, or one of many more in

the gallery⁠

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