A Beginners Guide to Airtable | Updated for 2022

Any beginner can learn the basics of Airtable. It's deceptively simple, but this tutorial will help you master the foundational building blocks of Airtable. It's perfect for Airtable newbies who want to quickly learn how to use the key features of the software or brush up on some intermediate concepts. 👇

In this video, we discuss:

- Workspaces
- Bases
- Tables / Datasets
- Fields / Columns
- Linking tables
- Lookup Fields
- Rollup Fields
- Junction Tables
... and more!

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Table of Contents: 📖 👇

00:00 - What this video covers
01:38 - Airtable Workspaces
03:49 - Airtable Bases
06:05 - Tables / Datasets
07:33 - Fields / Columns
12:20 - Linking Tables
14:07 - Junction Tables
17:30 - Lookup Fields
20:32 - Rollup Fields
22:19 - How to Get More Help!

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[monica]

7mins in and I'm LOVING your teaching style. The examples you give really help in understanding process. it's 2024, and this video is still very relevant. Thank-you! G.A.P!!!

[TessMDTV]

Oh My GOD! I literally completed THE FIRST DATABASE ever! I remember listening to you YEARS ago and immediately turned the video off due to a headache and dumped the air table; however, due to circumstances too elaborate to go into detail here, I circled back to the air table and I guess due to my recent viewing history (good old algorithm), it brought you back! Thank you for such attention to detail in your explanation and I'll be sure to continue learning from and following you.

[usmanafridi]

This is the best introductory video about Airtable by far!

[ricktar]

I really like this video. As someone with a technical background, this video is perfect for my non-technical colleagues and small business owners as it helps them understand the value of a database over a spreadsheet. Databases are often thought of as abstract entities dealt by enterprise level technology, but Airtable really shows people its just advanced data functionality upon a spreadsheet.

[dchomes]

Phenomenal teaching abilities. Very clear and to the point. Great job. One of the best at explaining things on youtube. Much appreciated. Subscribed.

[conorpodonoghue]

Excellent. Fantastic tutorial - thank you.

[benjaminrussell]

Excellent presentation. Fast, yes, but that's fine - it's easy to stop and rewind if someone misses something. That's far better than having someone go slowly and wasting time hemming and hawing. Kudos!

[alex-sd]

I knew nothing about Airtable until now. Thanks so much for this beginner tutorial. Great job in explaining the basics with no fluff.

[Taskade]

Appreciate the updated guides and tutorials for Airtable!

[jesse]

This was a great tutorial, Gareth! Very clear and understandable. As someone who builds databases, I understand most of these principles, but seeing how it's executed in Airtable is super helpful.

[ProNoobDev]

pretty intuitive ! iam a hardcore mysql/firebase fanatic but i've been told to use airtable as my db for a project . This is pretty fun and fast af hahah thanks man

[alanturner]

That's one of the best training videos I've ever watched. Definitely subscribing for more and wish I'd found the link to Gareth and GAP before now. That said, going to be easy to correct some errors I've made in my existing bases and will both start building some new ones and watching the other videos that are already available. Thank you Gareth!

[gikkibitung]

Very clear Gareth! Awesome fast BUT understandable...

[mathbydoing]

Learnt a lot, thank you. This Rollup is a tremendous feature.

[ruslanskij]

Excellent. Great. Fantastic. Brilliant. I got it all from the first glance. I will of course view it again and do all steps by myself to master those surely. However, I want to say many thanks and to admit that the author is just really fine speaker and teacher. Thank you so much. I have of course subscribed.

[luzetteannabing]

I learned many things from this tutorial video. I am looking forward in applying these learnings soon in Upwork.
Thank you for sharing this!

[barrybrewer]

Holy smokes. Outstanding. Thank you so much!

[wondle]

Slick and Informative. The BEST Airtable Vids. Well Done Gareth!

[teadish]

Excellent delivery of information :) I'm a long time Airtable user and still picked up new info from you. Thank you!

[ChaseSellmeyer]

My brian in so full after this... haha Great video! Now I just need to watch again and again to understand it.