I’m considering Airtable for information gathering as I browse the Web. One tool I currently use is Trello along with the “Add to Trello” extension for chrome and safari which nicely adds the URL and title for the page I’m viewing and creates a new card/record in a specific Trello board and list both of which can be specified within the extension. Simple and powerful. I could only convert to airtable if I had something similar.
Currently there is not UI in the extension, it just sends the information of the current site to the specific table in the DB, that is configured through the extension options.
What I do is send the sites to the AirTable and then categorize them in the AirTable app.
Borja Morales published a new version of his Send to Airtable extension this week. It is terrific - not only does it allow sending bookmarks and metadata to Airtable, but also it is highly customizable via the Alpaca Forms library. This is really well-done and since it is customizable it is likely to meet the needs of a wide range of projects. A++++
Richard, any chance you could give me some hints on using this extension? I got the demo working, but I’m thinking that I will need to do some coding to get my own forms working? Is this correct? I want to have a form with fields that auto fill with the current url, allow dragging and dropping of pictures, and a multi-select. Do you think these are possible? Do you know of any other resources that could help me get my form working?
You could include the pictures if you uploaded them to some other site and then did a drag/drop of the URL. If you want to drag/drop the file that will require storing the file somewhere so that would require a bit more
work.
A multi-select would probably be doable but you will need to do some coding; it won’t work with the extension as is. That said, it uses Alpaca forms as its foundation which is well-documented so I think a developer
who is familiar with Alpaca could do this.
