Images are a vital part of every social media post. Social media algorithms reward posts with high engagement, and including images with your posts is a key to ensuring that you get the online attention you deserve.
That said, a lot of social media images are derived from a template. For...
Every automation starts with a trigger - the set of conditions that must be met in order to "turn on" your automation. However, sometimes you need your automation to occur on a specific date or time. For example, perhaps you want to run a report on Fridays at 6pm, or maybe you want to send an...
Airtable is a fantastic tool for managing processes in your business and life. One thing that I track in it every year is sending holiday cards. It's arguably an older tradition, but I love taking time every year to sit with my family and recap the great things that occurred. We then compile...
Working with contractors can get complicated, especially when you ask them to submit their hours and timesheets. Not only that, but you also need to manage multiple rates over time, especially if you want to properly promote the best of your talent pool.
If tasked to build this in Airtable,...
In many cases, automation is fairly straightforward to build. Simply connect your software, choose your trigger and actions from a list, and away you go! However, sometimes the specific thing you're trying to automate doesn't already have a trigger established. There are an unlimited number of...
With the dawn of a new year, comes new goals and planning. If you're ready to shift to tracking your goals digitally, look no further than this Airtable tutorial.
In this video I showcase this template to track OKRs inside of Airtable. OKRs, or Objectives and Key...
Getting your cashflow organized is a vital step for running a successful company. Quite often, businesses have money coming in from multiple places and they lack the ability to get a clear picture to the health of the overall business. Thankfully, Airtable is a great solution for consolidating...
Within an Airtable database, it's common to need to extract or "pull" text from a long string. There are many reasons you may want this, ranging from social media posts to contract creation. Luckily, the methodology for extracting the desired text is always the same: reference the string, find...
Airtable Forms are a great way to quickly give external users access to enter data directly into your database. In general, Airtable has built an exceptional form feature to their software. Airtable forms are capable of many things, including:
- prefilling form data
- conditional fields
- embedding...
A chain of events is a difficult thing to plan out when (as in most cases) things are subject to change. For this reason, I rarely attempted to build solutions with this level of granularity in Airtable. Specifically, TASKS usually rely on a dependency to be completed before they...
Logic Formulas are an important formula type to understand. The output of these formulas, while not very helpful in a vacuum, is often used in tandem with many other formulas. Therefore, building solid logic formulas is a vital skillset for all Airtable users.
This video showcases the two most...
Have you ever watched someone work inside a software and their fingers moved so quickly you couldn't even keep up with them? I was one of those users in Excel - in my previous life I used Excel for about 90% of my work and I was fast! Getting fast in a software isn't done by accident -...
