What is Airtable? And Is It For Me?

Airtable is one of my favorite foundational tools that I use for a variety of projects, both for work and personally.

In this video I explain how you can take advantage of the versatility the tool offers to make it a go-to part of your daily worlflow.

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[VaskenBakalian]

Best explanation on youtube for anyone who hears about Airtable for the first time.

[elsaman]

a very clear, unbiased, and comprehensive introduction about Airtable. thank you

[donmc]

I came here because I'm considering Airtable versus Caspio. As a fan of communication, I just want to say Wow! Very clear, concise and helpful!

Thanks. I subscribed to your channel and used the link to create an account on Airtable.

[naomi]

I have been trying to learn about airtable and always come back to your videos. Your explanations are so clear and to the point and you have a welcoming, calm and positive energy. Keep smiling and shining! Thank you!

[FindYourFree]

this was so good. I needed a breakdown like this. Ty

[mildredlowe]

Dan you made this so easy to understand. 😅

[anasimplesolutions]

You explain this so well! From one Airtable fanatic to another (also, I use to be a music educator as well) funny how that happens.

[janinebean]

I heard about this today at this volunteer thing I’m doing for an advocacy group, and I was like OH MY GOD I NEED TO TELL EVERY NEURODIVERGENT PERSON I KNOW. Drudgery work and copying and pasting kills my soul lmao

[OsiasWarfare]

Great video, Dan. I'm using Jotform but am having issues trying to show or hide non-input fields (such as paragraphs) in the PDF attachment that is emailed to customers upon submit. Today, I've just discovered that Airtable can push and pull data to and from Jotform, but is Airtable able to condition form data to "show and hide fields" in the PDF email attachment in Jotform? Or does Airtable have their own solution?

[Alsoeric]

Which video were you referring to that compares airtable to spreadsheets at 0:40 sec?

[biancabluchel]

Dan, this is excellent! Greetings from Germany :)

[denizbircan]

can airtable be used to make bookings for a webshop? or restaurants buys and sales discarded and employee checks? to have a better view on it? currently using excel

[iBen-rypj]

Airtable sounds cool. I'm a front-end developer who's been looking for ways to store or at least read data directly from a database (not thru self created servers).

Heard of Google app script(GAS) and google sheet and was wowed by the combo. With GAS, you handle requests like you would on a server, giving you the possibility to validate and even authenticate requests like in a typical server. I really loved it, but curse CORS, such a fine concept all in vain. All post requests are blocked by CORS.

So am out here again, looking for free ways to capture data from a website into a database without going thru a server. Airtable may just be the thing. I'm heading to try it. If I could thank you in tongues I would. I more than appreciate this stream of infos on airtable. Again, thank you very 🙏

[spuddytrash]

Hi Dan, I'm really interested about your use of air table as a teacher, lending instruments to pupils and so on, as I am looking for a solution for an instrument maker to keep track of instrument loans and also to be able to deal with repairs tracking and sales. Do you think Airtable is a good fit for this kind of application? PS: We have an MS Access DB doing all that at the moment but it is really clunky, as it is a 30 year old technology...

[TheNameOfJesus]

I googled "does airtable require internet access, and does it store your data in the cloud", and the answer seemed to be yes to both. In that case, I want to know how my data is encrypted (it probably isn't when resting, but perhaps it is while in transit) and whether anyone at airtable's HQ can see my data without encryption (most likely they can.) I am not eager to use any software, no matter how good, with little or no privacy. For some people, privacy isn't important, and that's okay for them. But I want my data secure and private, and I want to know exactly what data about me is being sent back to corporate HQ and how my data is being shared with third parties. If this software was available on the Apple Store, they would have to provide a detailed Privacy Statement, but it's not there, so I have no idea what data they are taking from me.

[qowfkky]

Hi! Thanks for this presentation! Would you recommend Airtable in regards to Smartsheet? What are the main differencies between the 2 ? Do you have insights on the pricing model of Airtable ? does it work with add-ons / premium apps like Smartsheet to get the full potential of the product ? thanks a lot for your feedback !

[kisho]

does it work with separate mySQL? can the so created web application be customized with php and javascript?

[fayezfamfa]

Hi Dan .. is it a digital twin application ?

[SrinivasaRaoGurram]

I want to qicky build portfolio website using airtable. Can u create one video on this. Secondly If I want to use airtable platform as service (on AWS, AZURE, GCP) how to I go about it

[lotfibouhedjeur]

Dan: ... and old tools like Microsoft Access...
Me: Ouch! That felt personal... 🥺