There’s more to life than copy/paste

How efficient teams collaborate to get things done faster.

Andreas Møller

CEO and Co-founder, toddle.dev

There’s more to life than copy/paste

By Andreas Møller

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Productivity · 4 min read
Imagine this blog post started as a note. After some thought, I move to a document, and after several edits, I copy/paste the final product into my CMS’s rich-text editor, where it needs additional formatting. What seemed like a smooth way of doing things ultimately wasted time and effort. Efficient data management is crucial when you deal with large volumes of data from many teams with different requirements. We must coordinate how the data flows from creation to review and eventually into a live environment. Most people have strict processes to ensure that every document is reviewed and approved before it’s pushed live. While robust processes help, most of us use an age-old approach to move data between documents and repositories––copy/paste. And while it’s one of the most used features ever built, it’s imperfect. When paired together, Coda and toddle.dev, a next-generation web development platform, remove silos and make work more fluid.

Make rapid changes, with everything in one place.

 In the fast-paced world of digital content and web development, you need speed and the ability to edit in one place, and have it reflect everywhere changes the game. Whether it’s text for a blog, data for a report, or instructions for a project, you need that data reflected across all relevant surfaces and documents—a single source of truth removes the need for copy/paste. Coda is an excellent backend as it orchestrates all your content in real-time and ensures that your data is current and accurate. When you pair it with a visual development frontend like toddle.dev, you can update the content directly in Coda and leave your developers and product designers to maintain your frontend. This way, you can make rapid changes without needing other resources.
For example, CS can update a Salesforce entry that funnels information straight to a Coda template that orchestrates further workflows, like creating and tracking an Asana ticket. Every department works in their tool of choice, which minimizes error, and all information is available and updated in one place––no need to inform team members about changes. Your web experiences stay consistent and your teams save valuable time.

Familiar tools speed up the approval process and enable teams to ship faster.

 Complete autonomy to each professional in their domain is the key. When you give individuals the freedom to work in the environments they are most comfortable and proficient in, it not only boosts their efficiency, it also ensures a higher quality of output. We call it fluid work, a swift way to work that eliminates bottlenecks typically caused by handovers, speeding up the delivery process. For example, copywriters spend most of their time on research and in their writing suite of choice. Many use additional plugins like Grammarly to catch errors before their editor. No one in their right mind would write a blog post in Contentful or Webflow’s built-in CMS module. Text pieces are written in Coda because it’s much faster, and you have all the tools, such as comments, for people to provide feedback. If these tools communicate, it’s much quicker to ship as you provide test content for the developers as you write, and the blog post is automatically updated once it’s approved. If you have last-minute edits, there’s no need for a panicked copy/paste. Developers love headless content management systems because it removes non-technical colleagues from the frontend. Non-technical team members want access to the frontend as it enables them to make rapid changes. With toddle.dev and Coda, you get the best of both worlds––a flexible backend that updates your frontend dynamically (Coda) and a frontend editor with version control and collaboration features that work for all web surfaces (toddle.dev).

Coda + toddle.dev: Ship faster, as a team

 Coda is much more than a document editor—it’s a headless CMS—and when you connect it to all your tools, you can harness incredible efficiencies. Try it out with toddle.dev’s next-generation development framework, that enables you to build powerful web applications without writing a single line of code—and unleash your creativity.
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