Not having native notifications for due dates, etc is a MAJOR blocker for us … this shouldn’t have anything to do with calendars or views/filters triggering things … it should just have a native function to send a reminder to the people following/assigned the records.
IS this happening, so we can become paying users … as without it, not sure the system is viable for us !!
+1 for the email Notifications Feature, and the example image by Ronald_Jan_Veeneman (above) looks good. 
I tried using Zapier to create events in Google Calendar as an alternative. The problem I had is that one of the most important fields that the calendar event needs to contain is the “Client Name.” But because Client Name is a field in a separarate, linked, table, the created event won’t display the contents of the Client Name field. Instead I get the (relatively useless) unique identifier key field for that record.
@Katherine_Duh & Airtable team – I definitely have this same issue. A calendar view would be incredibly useful for me and my team, but only if you are able to surface information in addition to the Key Field. Something like the Kanban view that lets you customize the Cards would be the perfect solution.
The suggestion in this thread, about using a formula for the Key Field, only works if are willing to have a longer key field and only want to show the same information in all calendar views. For my base, this is not a practical solution. Is there any update for whether this feature is currently in the pipeline?
+1 for Email notifications on Date fields
I was just searching for a reminder button and found the request here. I’m so new to airtable that I thought it was just me as a newbie couldn’t figure it out. Kinda strange why a cool tool offering project management/tracker function doesn’t have a reminder? PLS add it! THX!
@Katherine_Duh Would love a customized reminder function. Looking to use it for contract management.
We would also love a reminder/alert function, particularly as a help for follow-ups on funding opportunities (we are a small nonprofit).
For native reminders/notifications, this is certainly something we’re considering and we’ve gotten a lot of feedback about it. In the meantime, have you tried using our Zapier integrations? Perhaps you could try integrating Airtable with Google Calendar.
As for your concern about accidentally deleting records while in calendar view—if you wish to unschedule something, simply drag the record into the right-hand sidebar.
@Katherine_Duh I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Airtable. Seriously, I am willing to try to do just about anything I can to keep every single thing I do, use, or have to worry about in Airtable. I am currently trying to advocate for my team at work to select Airtable as our core project management tracking tool. There are so many amazing conveniences that are baked into Airtable that would make it a wonderful tool to use, but not having an alerts, reminders & notifications option built in is a deathblow. I cannot advocate for this tool knowing that, unless someone is tech and integration tool savvy, it cannot meet one of the very most basic and core functions of a project/task management tool.
I personally have been using Zapier integrations, but I’ve finally just had to just stop using it. There are two major issues that make Zapier unusable for me. The first is that there is no “trigger” for when updates are made to a field in Airtable. For example, if I change the due date of a project in Airtable, there is no Zapier trigger to find and update the google calendar date.
In a similar vein to my first issue, the second problem I have is that if I delete something because it no longer applies, my calendar event is not removed. There isn’t a way to tell Google Calendar to delete something that I remove from Airtable. I think this could possibly be resolved by creating an additional Zap, but what it all really comes down to is how difficult this is to do.
The inability to feel confident that my Airtable and Google Calendar are reliably sync’d does more harm than good for me. I’m going to constantly run into the worry that my calendar isn’t accurate, that I’ve missed an important deliverable, or that I killed myself to meet an inaccurate due date. It’s easier for me to just kill the calendar integration and accept that I’m just going to have to constantly check Airtable to make sure I don’t miss something.
Especially considering you already offer the incredibly helpful calendar view tool, I feel like this should be such a doable, low hanging fruit, bang for your buck, slam dunk, easy win option you could add to this platform. I’ll keep my fingers crossed this comes soon.
@Katherine_Duh Any progress on this? Reminders/notifications for the date field is essential! As others have said, Zapier just doesn’t cut it, and Airtable is too awesome to not have this feature!
Love AirTable, but this is really making me look at other options. 
Love AirTable, but this is really making me look at other options.
you can have reminders if you suscribe to the ical and add the start and end date on every task, you don’t have to go from airtable
we ask for a native option
It would be great to hear any update on progress from an Airtable team member. Airtable can’t really be used effectively for project management without native notifications. And no, Zapier is NOT the solution. Zaps are great for simple, somewhat unusual things that probably make no sense to build natively. But notifications are pretty much table stakes for Project Management software and since that’s one of Airtable’s advertised use cases, the lack of notifications is a serious problem. I love Airtable but can only roll it out to my teams in limited cases right now because of this (and the lack of conditional logic but I’ve already posted on that!). Thanks.
+1 for the notification, alerts, and reminders system! It’s a simple feature that would greatly enhance the workflow. At the moment I’m trying to convert my current Office 365 calendar system to Airtable so that my team’s project management is more interactive and extensive than simply plugging in booking times. I’m absolutely loving the diversity of tools and customisable options of Airtable… if we got the notification/reminders/alerts as a feature, I will honestly use Airtable for every work place and freelance job.
So please develop this feature, it would be a lifesaver!
- 100,000 for reminder and alert notifications. However, please consider making the notifications and alerts work with fields that contain DATEADD formulas as well as calendar fields.
New to AirTable and just seeing that the two fields (date fields and formula fields using dateadd) work differently even though they’re both dates.
It would be extremely helpful if you could make formula fields using dateadd to show up in calendar view as an option as well. Pleeeeease
Yes!!!
It would be great!
Also, how about notifications coming from formula fields (not only from text fields) so notifications can be automated,
Agree with all… Notifications would be great.
I just realized there was no notification tool and it just made me very sad. I’ve spent a week importing data into Airtable. and the inability to setup notifications has been rethinking going back to Trello.
Just chiming in with a +1
Wow, I’m very surprised that this feature doesn’t exist. I love Airtable, it has become my primary project management tool. I was thinking about becoming more dedicated and upgrading to a paid membership, but I will have to look into a different project management SaaS now. This is a feature that I absolutely must have, and I really don’t care to use all the integration hacks to make it work. It should just work as a native feature regardless.
Hello Airtable,
Thoroughly enjoying my trial, and have uploaded a lot of info, but am now finding that I cannot send deadline reminders from Airtable and am more than a little disappointed. Would be happy to sign up for pro as a company if this feature was included.
I would love love love date fields to have the option of notifying users/collaborators 12m, 1m, 2wk, 1day, 4hrs, before an event or deadline, with the option to specify an exact date and time reminder - to cover all bases.
Thanks!
Also adding in to say I hope this feature will exist soon!
This would be EXTREMELY helpful. Please add date triggered notifications.
There are a couple of potential solutions to this with Zapier which hasn’t been mentioned - the simplest is to base a Zap on a View filtered by “{Reminder Date} is today”. This is very straightforward to implement with just a date field and a single view with the filter. You then have a Zap triggered by a New Record in View. The only problem with this approach is that Zapier will only send a reminder once for each record (even when the Reminder Date is changed).
There is, however, an alternative, and that is to use a Scheduled Zap - i.e. one triggered by the Schedule trigger included with Zapier. These can be set to Monthly, Weekly, Daily or Hourly - and because you aren’t then reliant on Zapier determining whether it has already been triggered by a record, and you can essentially do whatever you want in the Zap after that.
I’ve documented this in a blog post if anyone is interested:
Sending Notifications from Airtable
I’d welcome any thoughts and comments!
Julian - you must be over the top brilliant - my brain is in overdrive trying to understand your blog post. :crazy_face:
My use case requires a couple hundred reminders. Need to remind employees that their specific licensures and certifications are getting ready to expire and they need to renew them.
Before I get started - do I need a paid version of Zapier to run this Zap?
Thanks for sharing your technical guruness!
Following this with interest - we’re currently evaluating Airtable to use for our team and think this feature (or lack of) is a big issue for us. I’m keeping my fingers crossed its on the roadmap as I love Airtable so far, but this might hold us back from committing to it just yet.
Airtable team - any update? Thanks!
