+1 for this important organizational feature.

PLEEEEEASEEEE Airtable add this feature, it is making our workspace really hard to navigate. We already pay a lot for the workspace as a charity with nearly 30 users, there is no way we can afford another workspace, but have over 100 bases and it’s getting really messy. Folders and ability to password protect some bases please please please!

The lack of folders is VERY discouraging for the mind attempting to focus. It also makes myself and others not want to use the platform as much. Please airtable stop all other feature developments and add this now. :grinning_face_with_sweat:

We need folders! It is unsustainable for smaller organizations to keep on creating new workspaces in order to keep bases organized. We have one project that needs 50 bases, but it wouldn’t make sense to have 5 different workspaces for each of them. I’m begging you, please create this feature

+100000 for this! Please come through for us Airtable (as you have so many times before)!

+++ for this, please Airtable bring it home on this one!!. Permissions and sharing too on the folders would be game changing.

The uses for shareable folders are endless:

• archive unused bases


• separate client resources


• separate internal resources


• separate project folders

I think it would be reasonable to protect this feature on a paid plan and even to limit the number of folders to 20 or something as to not erode the core “per workspace” business model.

I’ve wanted workspace base management for years - so much so that I actually wrote to Airtable support with a feature enhancement request a couple of weeks ago. Now that I’ve done this, no doubt that we’ll see this update with the next round of Airtable updates. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

This is something that seems trivial to implement, but is probably much harder than most (me included) think. With that said, I would think something like organizing bases would be a priority in a collaborative platform. This needs to happen.

+1 on folder functionality, why isn’t this being done?

+1 This would be greatly beneficial. Our current workaround is to create a base that has links to all the other bases. But having to update it when a new base is created is a task.

Came here to find out how to create a folder and am now super sad to learn that there is no way and it’s been something people have been asking for for 5 years in this thread. This seems like a super simple request. Are these threads monitors by someone from AT?

@airtable REALLY SAD TO SEE YOU HAVE NOT RESPONDED HERE PUBLICLY!!!

WE NEED FOLDERS!!!

I have multiple “bases” per client. I NEED FOLDERS

I was just thinking about this Appreciate you

For the love of all that is in right in the world, PLEASE add this feature, or at least give us a way to have a list view that we can sort.

The large icons, although visually nice, make it difficult to organize bases once you get past 20 or so.

PLEASE ADD FOLDERS IN THE WORKSPACE VIEW. We are a start-up and love using Airtable but need to keep things tidy so new members of staff can use it efficiently. Pleaseeee

We really, really need this feature. It’s so simple, but would do so much!

Here to say folders are desperately needed for our team! We have cross-functional teams and the inability to organize our bases is debilitating to our workflow at times!

This is a desperately needed feature and it looks like it’s been requested for close to five years. Any updates from Airtable on what the plan is?

Wanted to bump this and say it’s the key feature keeping us from getting the rest of our firm on board with Airtable as a standard tool. I’m sure I’m overestimating the simplicity of implementing it, but it feels downright critical at this point. Otherwise we’re relying on color coding to associate things, and truly struggling to keep archived info somewhere out of the way.

OP here, just checking in.

The lack of engagement on this is one of the reasons why I had to stop using Airtable years ago.

I am genuinely staggered that this is still an active complaint.

Reading between the lines, I would speculate that this request not being actioned feels like a business decision, made to ringfence a bit of additional money from a subset of premium users resorting to having multiple teams to organise their work.

If that’s true, it’s a huge mistake in my opinion. From the evidence above alone, the financial upside for making Airtable work better at scale for large teams would be significant, to say the least.

+1 for this feature. My workaround has been to create a base to track bases! I have a “directory” base with a URL link and button to other bases. You can use labels for categories, departments, groups, people, etc. with different views to organize. Yes, this is not ideal but I do really like the functionality of Airtable compared to other solutions.

I cannot believe this is still not a feature. If they’re going to stick stubbornly to this absurd billing by workspace structure, they need to implement folders before their userbase starts peeling off or a third-party app steps in to help organize the dozens or hundreds of bases within a workspace.

OR

Change the billing structure so that no Pro-features user is billed over a certain amount per month. It’s absurd that if I want to organize my dozes of Pro bases across multiple workspaces (because that is currently the only way to group them, I’d be billed X amount of times for the same number of bases.

Can’t believe this still isn’t a feature. This lack of feature coupled with the billing structure means Airtable is not scalable for growing teams.

Still nothing from Airtable to address this issue? As a sole trader, I’m needing a way to divide up bases in my workspace between various other users (who are unrelated from one another) … along with those associated Pro costs… it’s a real pain. Really hoping this can be addressed sooner than later, as it impacts the growth points for those of us bringing new clients in to use Airtable.