Member-only story
Coda Notifications — email
Why notifications may be the better option
Let me start with a confession. I don’t like notifications in very much. What then motivates me to suggest that notifications still may be the way forward instead of email? Before we dive into that first a bit about how notifications work. In this blog I share how I got the dates we use to notify.
Notifications
A notification is an action and thus you need a button or an automation to make it work. The result is a flat text message shown in the top right corner. Second, the notification links to the source table you work with. Even if the notification is generated in a view of a table, it links not to this view, but to the source table. That is confusing. I had to set up multiple tables to make notifications work properly. Second, the content only supports flat text and some emoji. You cannot use links to reference a row openend as a modal as you see fit.
I love email. You can personalize it and put links in it that when clicked open the modal the user needs in the table (view) of your liking. To create an email you need a pack. I mainly use the Gmail pack, created by . In many of my docs I have email templates related to specific subjects. Like notifications, email require an action and is thus…
