Hi there,
I am currently diving into grist being really awesome.
Within my data there is a lot of repetition (like meta fields… Created. Modified. User. Etc)
Checks and references are repeatedly used.
Is there a possibility to edit the code?
Otherwise maybe custom column templates might help with that.
During the writing it might be possibility to prepare template tables and duplicate them. 
Defining documents as code would be awesome, if not already possible and I simpy overlooked it.
Thank you!
Gandalf