Powerful, good-looking management tool
April 26, 2018
Powerful, good-looking management tool
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Airtable
My team is using Airtable for a wide variety of projects: tracking summer camp applications, invoicing and financial tracking, and as a data management tool for logging updates to grants. I am the primary user of Airtable and my team will also use it depending on the project at hand. We needed a flexible and customizable tool that would allow us to manage a couple of different things in a central location.
Pros
- It's very easy to link information across several tables.
- The UI is simple to use and pretty!
- I like that I can view data in a couple of different ways, depending on the questions I'm asking or the specific needs of a project (i.e., calendar view, grid view).
Cons
- I haven't had much of a chance to play with the new Blocks features, but scrolling through the 'explore' page, I'm wondering if I'll be able to use more than 4 of the Blocks offered. I hope that there may be more fun tools in the future.
- The help section had some good content on basic formula operations, but they weren't sufficient for my needs. I'd love to have a section that offered some more advanced formulas that we could use.
- Airtable fills a data management/organization gap in our institution's suite of software. I anticipate that our ROI will be realized quickly in terms of productivity and accuracy.
- Smartsheet and Asana
I enjoy using Asana for task lists, but I don't love the mobile app and I didn't get the most out of it since my projects are usually not collaborative. Smartsheet has a good gantt chart tool, but the UI is terrible and it isn't as dynamic as I'd have liked. Airtable combines the best of both.
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