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Outdoes Excel in Ways I Didn't Know Were Possible!
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable is so helpful because it uses your data to create more insight on your project or team. By using data that already exits, Airtable can help you make additional connections by grouping, having menu options as data, and creating text and numerics. It created a multitude of new ways for me to look at, analyze, and streamline my data...and it truly feels now like a database.
What do you dislike about the product?
I'm not sure if it is in the premium plan, which includes "blocks," but it would be interesting to integrate tables and graphics into my data. It would add an additional visual element that might be useful and continue to rival Excel.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Using Airtable to track my programs members, I am able to notice and make connections that I never considered. It is helping me to think of knew ways to connect and grow our activities, by simply showing me data I haven't looked for before.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Try adding columns and data you don't think you need, they might actually help you realize new connections when you start linking sheets and cells.
Great for non-profits
What do you like best about the product?
Our summer camp uses Airtable to combine and link information from our old mess of multiple Excel spreadsheets, and to provide high-level summaries and metrics for our program team. We track everything including bookings, purchasing, supplies and tech assets, grants, financials, staffing, scheduling and much more. With its ease-of-use, all of the options to group and report on data, and features like maps and other app integrations (through Airtable Blocks), we're still learning how powerful Airtable is, but we're excited for what it has done for our camp.
What do you dislike about the product?
There are a handful of features we'd like to see, including linking between individual Bases and a version we could install locally on our own servers, aren't present at the time of this review.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The biggest benefit we get from using Airtable is helping us to provide actionable metrics for our program team drawn from a dozen or more different sources of information, allowing us to run our program more effectively.
Team Collaboration super-tool
What do you like best about the product?
It's like having a spreadsheet with a brain--we can drop in attachments, have a side chat directly linked to a specific project, and add things like formulas and pivot tables. It keeps everything organized and in one space, and saves a TON of emails. It also allows cross-collaboration across other departments by just adding the users.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing structure of user per work space makes it hard to forecast budget by future need; we may know a project is in the pipes, but not if we will have 2 or 20 people on it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team collaboration is easier within our teams and between teams. Attachments and updates are shared in the same place we keep the data, so time is saved, as well as patience. The additional features such as pivot tables and countdown are allowing us to avoid using several resources for one project.
Useful editorial calendaring system
What do you like best about the product?
There are so many ways to organize, plan and keep track of things through this platform. I've used a variety of documents and services to keep an editorial calendar, and this is by far the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
I joined Airtable early on as a free member -- but now, as a free member, some of the features I was used to using have been removed.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Planning editorial content six months out is much easier. Managing different ed cals for different campaigns through Airtable's "bases" feature also really simplifies things for us.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Airtable is really easy to learn. Its support features and customer service have always worked very well for us. Its "Learning and Resources" section has a bunch of content to help novice and skilled users alike. Being able to use different bases and workspaces makes Airtable a one-stop shop for any project management task you have.
Just what we were looking for!
What do you like best about the product?
Airtable is the only solution that provides so many different ways to view our data (grid, calendar, Kaban). This flexibility was key in getting our users on-board with using this product effectively - and not overwhelm them with too much information.
What do you dislike about the product?
It would be ideal to be able to link information from different bases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Airtable has allowed us to consolidate information from a variety of sources into a single interface. This has improved efficiency and made everyone's job much easier.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Watch the videos and review all the templates - it's amazing what this product can do with your information!
Saves me tons of time!
What do you like best about the product?
All the functionality of an excel sheet with added tools that make it easier, without being as complicated as an access database
What do you dislike about the product?
So far I don't dislike anything! I'm looking forward to seeing what else I can use it for aside from my primary purpose of event planning.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage the media, marketing, and fundraising events for a small, regional non-profit. I've been keeping track of events in Excel, which has been ok but not great. I also needed to be able to collaborate with others in my office that I'm working with, and while I have a OneDrive account through Microsoft which allows me to share my files easily, it doesn't allow us to collaborate unless they're also Office360 subscribers. Air Table allows me to share my projects with everyone.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you aren't quite to the level of needing a full-on custom database but spreadsheets just aren't cutting it anymore, I would give Air Table a try. It could be just the solution to your problem. It has solved mine and I'm looking forward to seeing how much I can do with it. Collaboration with others in my team is going to be much easier.
Very easy to use and device friendly
What do you like best about the product?
I like that the tables are easy to create and manage and that they all sync to my iPad and iPhone for easy look up.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hoping for some better response time to questions before purchase
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping track on non-profit donations and databases
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are familiar with Bento with your Mac, you'll see Airtable is the most comparable product on the market.
Favorite organizational tool
What do you like best about the product?
I like the easy color coding with Airtable and how easy it is to assign tasks to certain individuals. I also love being able to track progress through checking completed items.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints so far. We will be upgrading our licencing and hope to get even more out of it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are able to combine both tasking and budgeting with Airtable. It's nice to have it all in one place, with multiple people collaborating. The cool thing about it is that you can even filter your task page into another sheet so you don't need to type things over and over again, it will populate for you.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would certainly recommend Airtable over Smartsheets or basic excel
Great Tool for Collabration
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use and easy to collaborate with different groups. Modern interface design, fast to load!
What do you dislike about the product?
I would suggest to make SSO capacity to Pro and Plus users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Team Collaboration, easy to track progresses from different teams and members
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very easy to use. A lot of pre-built template to get things started very quickly!
A dream for managing my network
What do you like best about the product?
For my entire life I've struggled to remember who I know, keep track of the details I know about the people I know, and think through how to best invest my time into my network. Airtable is the first product I've seen that provides a solution to these problems without focusing on the address book / contacts app, or simply offering a stale spreadsheet. Airtable allows me to see the exact picture of my network.
What do you dislike about the product?
For someone who isn't native to using Microsoft Excel, I was still slightly intimidated of how to best use Airtable until a friend of mine who's an expert walked me through it and set it up for me. There's likely a way for Airtable to bring non-Excel pro's up to expert level with ease... and I'm sure they have already figured it out and it just takes a smidgeon more time for me to get there!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The primary business problem I am currently solving with Airtable is maintaining an organized personal and professional network of detailed relationships. So far, I've benefitted from being able to search and sort my network based on who I need to follow up with that I recently met, and the folks I need to catch up with who I've fallen a bit out of touch with.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Study their education materials and reach out to someone at Airtable on their customer success team. The jump in how much more usable the product becomes is unbelievable, at least for someone like me who is a slow learner!
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