I love ordering lists according to my own preference and priority.
Coda allows the reordering of lists, via drag and drop, at the lower levels for things such as page elements and pages themselves, but not for higher level lists such as docs or folders. These higher level lists are auto sorted alphabetically or by the “modified”, “created”, and “viewed” filter.
I would love to see this drag and drop feature be applied to workspaces, files, and docs. I’m unaware if workspaces has this same limitation or not but I’m assuming it does, so I would include that as well. This would be huge for me and anyone who likes full organizational control!
- Side note, I just discovered Coda today after 16 years of trying to find or even develop my own organization system, multiple times, and I’m extremely critical and particular about what makes a productivity tool like this good. With that said I almost immediately decided to ditch my current system and switch over to Coda. I love what they’ve built and I’m already wanting to get on board and help it develop further, if my suggestions are in line with their vision of course.
Yeah, I’d want this too. Once a workspace gets past a couple dozen docs, alphabetical sort becomes a tax on the people trying to keep active docs near the top. Even just drag-sorting inside a folder would cover most of the real pain for me.
Coda is one of those products where one goes “Where have you been all my life!” I started this journey with Framework IV in the middle eighties. Coda finally delivers on that vision.
One word of recommendation - It is completely different to anything else you have used in the past. Take a few months to familiarise yourself with it before you build your magnum opus. Get a feel for when to create a new doc, when to create a new table, etc.
I am an SAP consultant. The doc that I live in every day contain information that in the past we would have stored in 20-30, maybe more, different Word docs and Excel sheets. The first benefit is that you have all the information in one easily searchable environment. But then you start cross referencing info in these docs and @ references to definitions and other records, and you have an improvement in your documentation that is orders of magnitude better.