"Native" OS X Airtable Form App

[Andrew_Enright]

Wanted to share that my crew has found success wrapping Airtable forms in an Automator web pop-up. We use it for Creative Requests, and have added a custom icon, pushing the app to all Requestor’s docks.

ChrisWrites.com – 29 Jun 12

Turn Any Website into an App with Automator - ChrisWrites.com

Mac OS X makes it possible to launch webpages as standalone apps from Finder without the need to open Safari. This can be quite handy to get to websites quickly and does away with the usual Safari controls for bookmarking and entering web addresses....

A.

[Dan_Weaver]

This is a great tip, thanks! :tada:

Anyone know of a Windows equivalent?

[Andrew_Enright]

Sadly, I have no idea. Haven’t touched a Windows box for anything other than PowerPoint QA in a decade. Agreed that it’s a need though! Without Windows parity this workflow won’t scale past Creative/Marketing. I’ll ask around…

[Dan_Weaver]

@Andrew_Enright + anyone else reading: looks like Nativefier might be worth a look:

GitHub

jiahaog/nativefier

nativefier - Make any web page a desktop application

It’s a simple command line utility that makes a native application wrapper around any web page using Electron.

It’s free and pretty easy to use. I just tried wrapping a form as a native Mac app and it works great.