#AIRTABLE DATABASE REVIEW FULL#
#AIRTABLE DATABASE REVIEW REGISTRATION#

#AIRTABLE DATABASE REVIEW FULL#

You couldn't use it to track a project or manage a holiday system or anything like that, but creating a full customer list for a newsletter? Yep, easy, that's the kind of thing it DOES do really well. CONSĭon't think this is Excel in a different disguise, it's not, it's not as adaptable and not as powerful as Excel. Once you get used to it, Airtable becomes useful, and I can see myself using it again and again when I want to organise a very specific and distributed task on the internet. I created an application form which auto stored the data into a highly organised table that I could then use however I wanted (I created a league table from the registered users with ease and shared the results of the league as the scoring progressed) - all via the internet, I don't know of a way that I could have achieved this without AirTable, Google Docs would have been a possible solution, but Airtable allows you to add attachments easily (so images, etc) as well as allowing you to manipulate (And hide) data in any way you can think of using Rollups and Lookups - two of it's most powerful features.

#AIRTABLE DATABASE REVIEW REGISTRATION#

What Airtable is good at is creating a database of entries for a specific use, so for example, making an internet registration form where a user can enter data and 'register' their interest in a particular thing is so quick and easy to do. However, there came a time when I had to organise a league table for a tournament over the internet, and all of sudden, Airtable clicked. It's sometimes slow, straightly obtuse to use and has many 'pending features' that would be extremely helpful for some of the simplest of tasks. When I first started to use Airtable, I came away deeply frustrated with it's usability. It has many flaws and drawbacks, but once you accept them (and find ways to circumvent them) it can be quite a handy and interesting piece of software. Airtable has very specific uses that would be hard to replicate anywhere else with another piece of software.

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