What is Airtable used for?

Airtable is so versatile and customizable that you can make it work for anything you want. Inventory tracking, project management, rolodex/contact management, team collaborations. Anything and everything! It's much more than a spreadsheet on steroids; it's multiple apps and software all in one: spreadsheet, database, calendar, and a ton more, all speaking to each other. I've been using Airtable for 8 years and I have yet to discover all of it's amazing features.

AirTable is used to empower spreadsheets by allowing one to quickly see their flat and linear data in enhanced ways. Quickly one can ask AirTable to look at all the records, identify who created or modified a record or even a given field. It can quickly tell you the given day, date, week, month or year of a date and then sort or group that data so one can quickly see when things happened and look for trends to the data flows. AirTable creates windows into one's data to hide the data not needed to be seen and focus at a granular level the data needed to understand the bigger picture.

Airtable is a general-purpose database, automation, and internal app platform. As a general purpose tool it is very flexible for a wide variety of purposes. It's like a spreadsheet but much more powerful.

As boring as the phrase "relational database" sounds... that's Airtable's super-power. It's essentially a crazy user-friendly version of Excel that allows you to quickly organize, group, sort, and visualize comparative data.

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Real estate transaction and recruiting tracking. Also social media and onboarding tasklists. Kind of an SOP all together.