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Automation Action: Generate notifications on app (or desktop)

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oreocereus
8 - Airtable Astronomer
8 - Airtable Astronomer
Status: New Ideas

It'd be really use to be able to generate notifications for the user on the mobile app (or desktop). 

Seems like it'd be simple to do.

We'd like this, as we have really complicated automations running, that are not 100% infallible to human input error. Currently I manage this with a "notification" single select, whereby if an input error has happened and needs to be fixed, it's tagged with the relevant issue.
Input views are grouped by the notification select, so the user can at least see next time they open the app there was an error with their data entry.

But this is messy, can create multi-day delays in getting information rectified, and also takes up 1 of the 3 "grouping" slots (and I already find 3 not quite enough).

There'd be lots of reasons to notifcations would be useful to others.

Obviously email and slack are options for generating notifications, but we're a small team (3) who work in the field together, so we don't use slack, and we're not checking our emails. Everyone prefers their email notifications to be left off, and to deal with their emails when back in the office.

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ScottWorld
18 - Pluto
18 - Pluto

@oreocereus 

Yes, that would be a very cool addition to Airtable!

In the meantime, you can create your own custom notification system by using two 3rd-party apps: Makeโ€™s advanced automations and Pushover Notifications.

I show how to use these 2 tools to create your own custom notification system on this Airtable podcast episode.

Hope this helps! If youโ€™d like to hire an expert Airtable consultant to help you with anything Airtable-related, please feel free to contact me through my website: Airtable consultant โ€” ScottWorld 

oreocereus
8 - Airtable Astronomer
8 - Airtable Astronomer

While I appreciate you suggesting tools that may make what I want to do possible, it's getting a bit tiresome to have every question turned into an upsell for another platform + your consulting service.

Again, I do appreciate that you often share helpful advice, but it's pretty constant and feels like spam.