Item: Airtable
Rating: 9
Author: Jie Chao

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our research and development team use AirTable to organize all sort of information: schools, teachers, collaborators, studies meta information, etc. This helps us keep records of past studies and implementations and keep track of upcoming events and see who are assigned to coordinate which schools and teachers. Everything is in one place.

Pros and Cons

Linked records are very helpful. For example, we have multiple teachers from the same school. Previously, school information is part of the teachers' information and that creates a lot of duplicate information. Now schools' info are on a separate table linked to the teachers' info table.

Need more analytic tools such as graphs and pivot tables.

Return on Investment

Reduce miscommunication and bring information to one place.

Alternatives Considered

Trello

Google sheets? Linked records is the game-changer. Also the aesthetics of AirTable is appealing. But AirTable seems unstable at times.
Trello for task management. Many of my colleagues use Trello and it's hard to get them to switch.

Likelihood to Recommend

Perfect for small, distributed teams/organizations who need to organize and track information and perhaps also serve as a task management tool.
Doesn't apply if someone on the team is not willing to adopt and follow the workflow enabled by AirTable.
I think it is important for teams to establish workflow first and then decide whether AirTable or any tool is useful to support that workflow.

Review of AirTable

Overall Satisfaction with Airtable

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Return on Investment

Alternatives Considered

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