“Article Text” is the name of my column that contains the main body of the blog, but otherwise it should be copy/pastable. That layout is designed to look as much like a classical CMS back-end as possible, but lacked a Word Count, so I added a new column to the main table and setup the following formula: Length(RegexReplace(,"()",""))+1 I then use a customised Layout in a separate Section as an editor (I actually have three Sections with similar layouts, one for Drafts, one for Editor Sign Off, and one for Published, each using filters). This is probably not an ideal response, and it would definitely be better to just have inbuilt capabilities for things like Word Count, but I have got a workaround that’s at least mostly accurate (and could probably be tweaked to make it more accurate if needed).īasically, I have a Blog CMS in Coda: a table which contains columns for title, body text (this column is hidden to prevent rows being gigantic), header image, summary, SEO tags etc. If Coda combined the best of both, I’d be able to use it as a real content management system, the way I did with DabbleDB, and finally migrate off of Filemaker. So far, the main online options are pure spreadsheets - like AirTable – or pure text note management, like OneNone and EverNote. So if I have a text doc in Coda itself, as a separate section, I can’t get its word count, or link it to a particular data row.Īnd if I have a text field inside a table, I can’t work on it in a reasonable way in a text editor. However, Coda seems to view text docs different from text fields. I would also need a table with a list of interviews – date, name of the person, company, etc… – and a large text field for the interview transcript. Then if I click on a row, I’ll get that article’s detail view – including the text of the article, plus a bunch of data fields – due dates, target word count, current word count (need word count function for this!). DabbleDB was great, but were bought up by Twitter and shut down.įor me to switch to Coda, I would need to have better text management features.įor example, I would like to have a table with a list of articles. I currently use Filemaker for article writing (Apple’s answer to Microsoft Access), and have been looking for an online alternative for years. I’m very much interested in this as well.
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