This week’s theme: small-but-mighty improvements, builder-friendly polish, and fewer workflow headaches.
These updates are a good reminder that polish matters. A smoother automation experience here, a navigation fix there — and suddenly the everyday work feels a whole lot better.
What shipped this week:
New in Docs: smarter automation management
If you’re building with automations, this one should make life a whole lot easier.
This update adds:
- clearer descriptions so it’s easier to understand what each automation is doing
- resizable panels for a more comfortable editing experience
- drag-to-reorder support
- jump-to functionality to move around faster
- bulk disable controls
- better error notifications when something needs attention
In short: less hunting, less guesswork, and much smoother automation upkeep.
Fixed: Buttons in published docs no longer open same-doc pages in a new tab
A classic paper-cut, now officially out of the way.
Previously, buttons used to navigate between pages in a published doc could open a new tab even when they were staying within the same doc. That behavior has now been fixed, so navigation should feel much more natural.
Not the flashiest update in the world — but definitely the kind that makes published docs feel cleaner and more polished in practice.
Product update: AI columns now speak JSON
This one’s for the builders.
AI columns can now return JSON as a first-class output type, making it much easier to use AI-generated results in downstream workflows — whether that means filtering, mapping, or passing structured output to the next step of an automation.
Even better: if the response comes back malformed, the system now checks whether it’s valid JSON and automatically prompts for a correction. That means fewer brittle workarounds, less manual cleanup, and much more dependable structured output from AI columns.
Want the fuller running list?
For the broader month-to-date view, you can also keep an eye on Changelog: August 2026, where we’re rolling up everything shipping across the month in one place.
One quick housekeeping note
I also posted an account linking and access help thread to help centralize support across Coda, Grammarly, Superhuman Docs, and Go. Not a ship, but hopefully a useful resource if you or your team hit any bumps.
That’s the roundup for this week — a lighter one, but a meaningful one if you spend a lot of time building and sharing docs.
Happy Friday, everyone 