August 2021 · The Coda blog

August 2021

New in August: Frozen columns 🥶, the Coda app for Zoom 🔌, (even) faster docs 🏎 , and more 🎉.

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Before we tell you what’s new (a lot!), we’d like to invite you to our second-ever Block Party. On October 6th, the global maker community will come together virtually for some big talks, clever docs, and brand-new building blocks. Register quickly to secure your Block Party swag box.

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Mastering the controlled slide.

If you’ve spent your days on that horizontal scroll, going back and forth to make sense of your data, you can officially chill.

Frozen columns⁠

—one of the most requested features ever—is here to add an extra layer of control, and make even the widest tables easy to navigate.

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We have an app for that.

Distributed teams everywhere are leaning hard on Zoom to facilitate teamwork. The

Coda App for Zoom⁠

makes it easy to use a Coda doc directly in a Zoom meeting. And, Coda’s most useful templates are there so you can quickly gauge attendee sentiment, take a vote, prioritize Q&A topic, and more. Should we hop on Zoom and talk about it real quick?

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Fast talk.

This is not the first time you’ve heard us say “performance is a feature.” And this latest update is another in our mission for

faster, more performant docs⁠

. We’ve increased the calculation and load speeds of our docs to up to 68% faster, and decreased the file size of the largest Coda docs by as much as 85%.

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Check out that view.

Expanded rows and detail views have taken off their glasses, shaken out their hair, and are ready for prom. The

new interface⁠

renders image columns as header images and display columns as headings, making for a beautiful, easy-to-read modal.

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Small things considered.

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Join that channel⁠

: After an update to Slack’s API there was a bit of misalignment in the Pack integration, but fear not, the Slack Pack is back on track.

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Get where you’re going⁠

: You can now click on any page title or its page icon to navigate to that page. Need to edit the icon? Just double-click.

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Control yourself:⁠

We’ve updated a bit of confusing navigation and we’re now on our absolute best click behavior.

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Show your true colors:⁠

Customize the bounds of your colored scales so things look right, even in filtered views.

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Make a (new) name for yourself:⁠

Want to delete a value from a people column? With this update you can search for and select “blank” to reset a cell.

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Save your sanity:⁠

We’ve toggled auto-complete to “off” in text columns, since we’ve heard that it interfered with typing.

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Go Explore-ing:⁠

Create button, slider, scale & control columns by dragging items from the Explore panel into your table to automatically set the column type.

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Live in the now:⁠

When you don’t need your timer to go all the way down to the second, this update lets you choose whether you want the output to be seconds, minutes, hours, or days.

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Win at hide & seek:⁠

When you need to double check a hidden table title, you can reveal it simply by hovering over the three dot (or kebab) menu.

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Grab your +1:⁠

We’ve updated the behavior for pasting tables with unlinked duplicate data, so that the number increments by 1 each time.

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Cancel the noise:⁠

Hide the cursors of the rest of your team when you’re working in the same doc and need a little bit of extra focus.

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Keep those pages unlocked:⁠

We’ll keep your doc unlocked for you as you navigate between pages until you lock it again—or until 10 minutes of inactivity.

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Link with precision:⁠

We’ve stepped up our link game and made it possible to link to a specific comment in a thread, rather than send someone to the top of what might be a lengthy discussion.

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See the big picture even faster:⁠

Would you look at that, all non-GIF images are now loading up to 60% faster in Coda docs.

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Be a know-it-all (enterprise version):⁠

Coda’s newest API supports auditing activities via an event log for all enterprise workspaces.

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Watch and learn.

Level-up your Coda skills with the help of Maria’s upcoming webinars. Browse our

complete webinar schedule⁠

, or RSVP to one of these August sessions:

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Flexible wikis & documentation in Coda⁠

- 8/23 @ 3p Pacific

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Formula fitness: Concatenate⁠

- 8/24 @ 9a Pacific

💡 Tip: Did you know you can use the Concatenate() formula in Coda tables with the Slack and/or Gmail Packs to send automated, custom reminders to your teammates? Watch our upcoming webinar to learn how!

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Procrastination corner.

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Want to look like you’re working and be on Twitter at the same time? Sounds like you need this

Tweet-able charts⁠

doc.