Viewing information is easier
April 10, 2018
Viewing information is easier
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Airtable
We are a communications team using Airtable to get a bird's eye view of the work that everyone on the team is doing. We gather once a week as a whole group to go over projects and tasks and put our base on a display where we can all see where people are spending their time, what agenda items people want to discuss or even where our work might be overlapping and duplicated.
Pros
- Airtable takes in lots of granular information, and lets you easily see only the relevant information that you want at that time. By sorting and filtering we can cut out the noise in the database.
- The different kinds of views available cater to different situations. Your information can filter into a calendar view, or if you're used to Trello boards, then you might feel right at home sorting everything into a Kanban view.
- Ultimately, it's about how you want to view complex sets of data. If you're using monstrous Excel or Google spreadsheets, and suffer through navigating them, Airtable can do a lot to ease that.
Cons
- Linking between tables has been the hardest thing to wrap my head around. And the hardest to explain to my teammates.
- A record's revision history is integrated with a messaging box. This quickly gets cluttered and makes it difficult to find either specific revisions or specific messages sent by teammates.
- Mostly organizational and project management impacts. Hard to quantify. We have smoothed out our team meetings and gotten team members up to speed on projects faster.
- We're able to track what work is contributing to overall missions and goals. And what work is outside of that scope.
- Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets
While traditional spreadsheets provide a space to input information, Airtable actually makes it useful and easy to look at it, showing you only what you need or want to see at that moment.
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