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This is something that has been bothering me on both desktop and mobile… 

 

When I have the app downloaded to a device, and I click on an email that is from a comment, there should be a function where the action takes me directly to the comment in the app. Not to a login page in my browser, not a new tab in the browser. 

 

This would be a lot better than the current behavior because: 1) I downloaded the app. I’m here, I’m using the app, I’m the power user and I should be taken care of; 2) When opening a series of comments in my email, I now have to wait for each of the tabs to open. My base isn’t small, so it takes a while each time, and it’s a little frustrating. 

Usual disclaimer that for feature requests it’s recommended to submit them to this form as the devs aren’t consistently on the community forum. 

That said, the app version of Airtable is not really optimized in my experience. Funnily enough the app doesn’t seem like it’s there for power users but rather light users (or a way to engage on your phone where spreadsheet interfaces in mobile browsers are hard). On an iPad or desktop the browser is seriously more powerful.

Yes, as ​@DisraeliGears01 mentioned above, Airtable hasn’t really prioritized the mobile app experience.

You might get much better results by creating your own “custom commenting system” by creating a new “Comments” table in your database, and linking those comments to your main record in your main table.

Once you do that, you can control where people go to view the new comments by creating custom URL links that people click on.

You can use a URL link to send them to a certain Airtable view, a certain Airtable interface page, or even better, you could send them to a Fillout form that shows them the Airtable comment that you want them to see. I mention Fillout because it is 100% mobile-friendly and it is 100% free, so the Airtable comment could be quickly & easily viewed in a mobile web browser.

Hope this helps!

If you have a budget and you’d like to hire the best Airtable consultant to help you with this or anything else that is Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant — ScottWorld

Hey ​@more_and_more,

As mentioned above, you’ll want to submit this as a feature request. 
Scott’s suggestion for handling comments is spot on. I usually go with that approach when I need something more robust.

Mike, Consultant @ Automatic Nation 
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