One Library Gets Organized with Airtable
February 12, 2018
One Library Gets Organized with Airtable
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Airtable
Airtable is being used by the office of communications as both a planning platform (for content calendars for social media) as well as a database that 1) houses contact information and 2) archives past usage of archival materials. Airtable is incredibly user-friendly. Its shared workspaces have been a productive way for our team to cross-pollinate content and ideas for our respective responsibilities.
- Airtable's many "views" are incredibly helpful for our team because we're able to visualize our data in ways that suit our respective tasks. For one team member, it might be more helpful to use the calendar view to get a bird's eye view of what kind of content we're putting out when and for another team member it might be more helpful to visualize that same data in a way that filters for tasks that have not yet been completed.
- Airtable's many color options are not only fun, but incredibly helpful to organize our data! We work with many libraries housing all sorts of incredible collections. Tagging the libraries and their collections with colorful tabs helps us stay organized and work efficiently.
- Airtable's columns have versatile functions. We love how one column can be a check box, another can hold a file, and another can hold multiple tags. One sheet can house a multiplicity of functions and that helps us stay organized! The different function of each column helps us articulate the relationship between the data points. This is incredibly helpful.
- We wish it were more straightforward to pull data from different sheets.
- We wish we could pull data from sheets on different bases.
- It would be amazing to pull from Excel sheets where data is being actively updated - like having "live" spreadsheets in Airtable.
- Our number one wish would be to have calendar dates be able to repeat themselves over weeks/months/years. Having an event repeat itself is not straightforward on Airtable.
- Incredible ROI because we've been able to get organized around our resources. We've been able to use Airtable as a go-to database to which each team member has access. This has allowed us to minimize the "run-around."
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