Coda - Is it better than Notion?

Coda is the best Notion alternative in 2021. However, is it better than Notion? We'll find out in this video!

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
01:19 Docs vs Workspaces
02:39 How to import Notion pages to Coda
07:02 Using Templates in Coda
08:46 How to use Zapier to automate Coda
10:05 How to connect YouTube to Coda
11:47 How to manage Databases in Notion vs Coda
16:51 Pricing of Coda vs Notion
18:08 Final thoughts about Coda

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[saraharminta]

Oh, I also forgot to mention charts, forms, conditional formatting, publishing, **buttons** ;)

[glennrobb]

Great comparison. I'm in the process of switching from Notion to Coda. I'm about 90% onboard. The only things I would like to see is dark mode for Coda and bit better formatting for tables.I agree about the relational databases strength of Notion. Coda is like Excel but fun. The power of the buttons in Coda is amazing. I kept spinning and spinning with Notion but never could do that until I stumbled on Coda. I also like how Coda work your files and images. Not as restrictive. For $6 a month with Coda, I signed up right away. With Notion, I never upgraded because all of the paid features seemed to be related to teams. I'm just using this for my daily productivity and keeping my self organized. It's a new year, so I'm going to take the plunge to Coda for this year.

[devarni]

Coda closed the gap with big improvements with boards in the last months and they added a lot of other stuff. I switched from Notion to Coda and will not look back, its a lot more powerful with formulas and tables

[Komatik_]

I think with big, expansive tools like notetakers and process management tools one-person comparison videos just fall flat - you have one person using some tool in depth as a daily driver and surface-level fiddling for the comparison on for the other tool. (as one chronic example, find me a productivity blogger or youtuber who knows what OneNote can actually do - you won't). Proper comparisons with two tools probably just plain need two people who use the tool as a daily driver, going through use cases and idiosyncrasies of their respective apps.

Sometimes it's the small things, like how eg. Roam and Obsidian would encourage the user to structure their notes differently due to outline vs. heading-driven Markdown file as the main format, etc.

[gs_f]

I am torn between notion and coda, what to do? :DD
Do you have any advice for me, since the publication of this excellent and so informed video?

[tactilius]

On your next dive into Coda, suggest checking out the ability to edit custom “detail” views of a row, which can accommodate embedded tables, bar, pie and Gantt charts, conditional formatting, large text fields, and UI elements like multi-select buttons that can help in managing params, driving notifications or other. Not quite the same as a page (or a canvas, ) in that it appears as a modal-
but given that these detail “view” layouts are nameable, manageable and can be invoked from other tables or on a canvas, it becomes a very, very robust feature covering many of the same parameters as a page. Same should apply with formulas- if you have a complex function on a finance table, for example, you can name it, manage it, and call it up wherever you need it.

[GoodMorningButch]

I took the test I found on Coda itself determining whether Notion or Coda was more suited to my personal use case and it suggested I stayed in Notion, so that's where I'm at ❤️

[MuratKilci]

Notion went down again on Feb 13. No offline mode. Deal breaker for many.

[yakinbozek]

Beware this is not a fair comparison. Seems to be biased towards Notion, not intentionally but because the author have a deep understanding of Notion while lacking experience in Coda. The video therefore focuses on mostly minor details such as automated icon picker while misses to mention what I believe are the fundamental engines where Coda is better than Notion, such as in its more advanced database management, intelligent plugins, interactive features, etc, etc.

[danielvelho]

Good video. I too went back and forth between both products many times. But Coda's power is right with databases, something you had only scratched on the video.

[ChicoValenciaTv]

Notion is known for not being very safe because of its privacy issues with API.
Anything to comment on the privacy of Coda, please?
Good review btw.

[purgatoriprytania]

Maybe it's just because I'm so used to Notion, but Coda seems like confusing crap. Even using synonymous terms like 'page' and 'doc' to represent different things is a bad decision, imo.

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What are your thoughts about Coda? Let us know in the comments below!

[skralogy]

mentions great coda feature, but finds it a plus for This review is dripping in bias

[ToriZealot]

Coda is a US only program. You can only use US dates. That is a no-go for international teams.
It's no application for wiki-fans. You can't link to documents outside a "doc" (dumb Coda terminology).

They entirely focus on table functionality. For personal use, why not just use excel?