(“Hey babe take another look at the price.”) If you wanted to share with your teenager without giving the teenager the ability to edit the base, you’d adjust the access privileges for that share. (“Are you kidding me? This place looks like a dump!”) This data gets synced in both directions instantly. This screen is used to customize column data types, add columns, etc.Īnd once you’ve shared your househunting base, your spouse will now be able to take a break from packing boxes, access the base, review what you’ve seen, look at the photos, and write encouraging notes to you in the Notes field. The Airtable app for iPhone isn’t just for entering and viewing data on the go, it’s powerful enough to create and edit base structures. You could actually create the base from scratch on your phone, but that would be showing off. Need another column/field, say, Square Feet? Click Customize again, and add a field. Notice what is going on: You’re not only entering data (including photos) on the iPhone, you’re editing the structure of the database. Clicking on the camera button lets you take a picture and store it directly inside the base. View of a single property record in a house-hunting database. Next time you create a new record, when you click into the Neighborhood field, the value picker will appear and you’ll type in a value only if it’s not already there for the picking. So in the record view, click on Customize Fields, then click on Neighborhood and change its field type to Single Select. Now if you visit many properties in the same area, you’ll probably get tired of typing the same neighborhood description again and again (“Vista del Lago Lindo Estates”). There’s even a barcode column type so you can scan barcodes. If configured properly, addresses can be opened in Maps phone number values can be tapped to make calls. Click on the Attachments column, then on the camera icon, and you can take one or more photos of the property and they will automatically be stored in the base. Now, when you are out visiting properties, you’ll launch the Airtable app on your phone, open the househunting base you created earlier, click on an empty row, and enter each property’s address, price, etc. My simple househunting base viewed in a browser on a computer.
An app for Android is in beta now and will be released later this winter.)
Before you hit the streets, download the Airtable app to your iPhone and use the app to sign into your new account. Define two or three more columns-price, neighborhood, rating-and you’re ready to go. The Name field in Airtable is for a unique description of each row or record, so in this scenario, you’d want to use the Name field for property addresses. Three columns are predefined for you: Name, Notes and Attachments. On your new Airtable account’s home page, click New Base, give the base a name, then double-click the base’s icon to open it. Imagine you are in one city looking for a new house and your spouse, having drawn the short straw, is back home packing. And since it’s easier to show how this works with concrete examples, let’s do that, too. But it’s a snap to build a base from scratch, so let’s do that. csv file or paste column and row data from an existing spreadsheet. (“Base” is Airtable-speak for database.) Or you can import a. You can pick from a couple dozen starter bases for different purposes.