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Last modified date unless manually overwritten

  • May 29, 2026
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Found some older posts that this is impossible, but hoping there might be a solution within the last two years:

I am creating a “phone sheet” within Airtable, essentially a tracking list of all the outgoing and incoming calls. My end goal is to have a field that will show last time I update a record’s “status” column (from incoming to outgoing, and vice versa). But I would also like to be able to manually overwrite the time… up until the next time I change the status, therefore going back to the automatic last modified time.

A case study: I receive a voicemail that some left an incoming call at 10:00am. It is now 3:00pm, so I would need to modify the record and then manually back-date the last call to have been at 10:00am.

Is there a formula function that would allow for this? Or would this be better suited for an automation?

Thank you - open to any suggestions!