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Why syncing docs matters
One way sync or a two way sync, you may need it
One task one doc
In an remarkable contribution, employee Al Chen wrote:
These days, I try to have my templates do one thing and one thing well.
Let me rephrase this to one task, one doc.
Late 2022 I described how complexity can turn against you easily. Since then we have descriptions in the columns and we can comment in our code editor. Two important steps helping us to keep oversight. The third request — the link between tables and columns living in other tables — remains however unclear.
Rickard Abraham wrote:
I often find myself clicking delete on a column simply to figure out What is this column even connected to? Oh, right!
His contribution to solve this issue, although interesting is not my cup of tea. I am convinced should solve this natively and as long as the company won’t do this, it shares implicitly that solving this kind of complexity is not yet important to them. Maybe it is the way of saying: Keep It Simple Stupid.
Simple means one task per doc like all core employee data and not mixing this — in the same doc — with sick leave for example or a car policy, budget exercises…
