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You have the wrong paradigm. Airtable doesn’t improve on excel - it makes databases accessible to non-technical people. It’s the new MS Access: simple GUI for d
by lordofmoria 3y ago
You have the wrong paradigm. Airtable doesn’t improve on excel - it makes databases accessible to non-technical people. It’s the new MS Access: simple GUI for doing Joins, lookups, foreign keys without knowing that’s what you’re doing.
- knubie 3y agoThis is true, in theory. However when we attempted to deploy it this way in our org, the average non-technical user was simply unable to grok the concepts of relational databases and we ended up with a complete mess that needed to be manually groomed on a regular basis.
- luckman212 3y agoThis resonates. Still, even simple Excel spreadsheets shared on OneDrive often end up a mess and need grooming by someone with some common sense. I'm guessing I'm not the only one who's seen the folder with: - Master Job List v1.xlsx - Master Job List v1 (1).xlsx - Master Job List v2-new.xlsx - Master Job List v2-new updated.xlsx - Master Job List v2-new 2023.xlsx And then you open it up and there are 7 different fonts, sizes, duplicate sheets with conflicting information, circular refrerences, macros that won't load, some VBScript from 2004 that no longer runs... and this is the document that the COO uses daily to run the entire company.
- iancmceachern 3y agoEveryone knows the correct filename scheme is: - Master Job List v1 - Master Job List v1 final - Master Job List v1 final final - Master Job List v2 final - Master Job List v2 final, short - Master Job List v1 absolute final The v2 ones are forward looking, the 3rd one down is the one the COO uses to run the company, and the last one is the one they use to do the taxes