We’re delighted to welcome Jonathan as the newest member of the Airtable team, where he’s joining us as a marketing manager. Previously, Jonathan led product marketing at Sift Science and worked as a consultant to Fortune 500 companies in the TMT (technology, media, and media) sectors at Altman Vilandrie & Company. In his spare time,…
The Right Sort of API Updates
Today we released some improvements to our API designed to improve the way you can list and select records. With these new parameters, you can filter, sort and otherwise limit the number of records returned in a more precise way. Let’s take a look at how they work! New Parameters in Action One key result…
Welcome Katherine Duh!
We’re excited to bring Katherine Duh onto the Airtable team as a marketing manager. She’s been thoroughly converted by the awesome power of databases and is looking forward to upgrading her scattered collections of confusing spreadsheets. Prior to joining Airtable, she graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University and lived in…
Introducing the Airtable iPad App
Update: Airtable is officially a featured productivity app in the App Store for both iPhone and iPad! Today, we introduce our new iPad app. It’s only been a few weeks since we launched our redesigned iPhone application (check it out!) but this is something different: an entirely new way of organizing and interacting with the…
A Brief History of Barcodes
1948 It’s 1948 and Norman Joseph Woodland has a problem. A graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology, he’s supposed to be teaching— but he can’t stop thinking about a simple problem: how to automatically distinguish between products at checkout. After a few false starts involving ink that glows under UV light, he quits his…
Using Barcodes for Asset Tracking
Ah, barcodes. From their humble roots in morse code and 1920s movie sounds systems (really) to their present ubiquity in stores, railroads, factories, and biomes everywhere, these funny little collections of lines help to organize and streamline processes the world round. As you can imagine, we’re rather fond of them. So in our iOS 2.1.0…
Powering Legislative Advocacy Using Airtable: Andrew Cates
Shaking up systems and battling bureaucracy is the job description for Andrew Cates, General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs for the Texas Nurses Association. The TNA, founded in 1907 and located in Austin, is a statewide, professional association of licensed nurses. And every day, Cates fights to protect the workers’ rights of 250,000 nurses…
Airtable for iOS Gets a Whole New Look
That’s right: we decided it was time for an upgrade. Starting today, there’s a whole new Airtable available for iPhone users. (Android and iPad users — we have something for you too! Click here to sign up for our beta.) So what’s new? Bringing Design to the Database Databases get a bad rap. They’re often…
Welcome Zoelle Egner!
We’re thrilled to share that Zoelle is joining the Airtable team as Marketing Manager! Previously, she led social media and editorial efforts for Box, and served as Operations Manager for Crocodoc. In her spare time, Zoelle is an assistant editor for Sirens, a literary magazine set seven years in the future. A longtime Airtable fan,…
Summarizing Data with Rollups
This is a guest post courtesy of database design expert and author Tim Dietrich, an honorary Airtable MVP. Another great feature of Airtable is the “Rollup” column type. With this type of column, you can summarize data from records in a linked table. For example, suppose that you have an Organizations table that is linked…
Welcome Victoria Hay!
We’re delighted to share that Victoria is joining the Airtable team as our Office Manager. Victoria recently graduated from Georgetown, where she worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Government. Victoria is excited to work with the team that is giving tired spreadsheets such an impressive upgrade. She has found that Airtable allows…
Airtable and Slack: Keeping Your Team In Sync
Every minute you spend in status meetings and sending email updates is time you’ll never get back. We’ve teamed up with Slack to make those productivity drains a thing of the past. You checked something off your Airtable task list? You closed a deal with that important new customer? Now, when you make updates in…
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