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Posted by jaslar
Dec 24, 2017 at 03:23 AM
Take a look at Airtable. My office has started to use this a lot for conference and committee organization. A very powerful and flexible relational database.
Posted by Luhmann
Dec 25, 2017 at 12:50 AM
I’d tried Airtable a while ago but never really got it; however, there are many situations where I’ve used other tools (Trello, Dynalist, Google Sheets, etc.) as a database and after seeing the name come up in this thread I tried it again and I have to say, I’m very impressed. It is truly easy to create a custom database (or set of interlinked databases) that adapts to your needs. And the free version is very generous, more than enough for what I use it for. The main reason I didn’t get it before is that I had only tried the iOS app, but the iOS app is rather basic compared to what you can do in the web app version. I was under the mistaken impression that it was an iOS app first, but it is really a web app first. (The iOS app is actually quite useful, it is just hard to appreciate the app if that’s how you start using it.)
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Dec 25, 2017 at 02:07 PM
I use Airtable for a number of purposes, none of which is all that sophisticated. It handles them all very well. My biggest problem with Airtable is it doesn’t have a function for printing mailing labels. You have to export your data then import into another application.
Steve Z.
Posted by Jeffery Smith
Dec 25, 2017 at 05:15 PM
The 60-month choice at $5 a month makes it affordable for me, but I am still smarting from the Novamind situation in which my lifetime subscription was more like a “going steady” subscription.
Amontillado wrote:
Crud. Just went back to the site and looked further - pricing is
>subscription only. Takes the fun out of it for me.
Posted by George Entenman
Dec 25, 2017 at 07:13 PM
Panorama X looks fantastic. As a retired Filemaker Pro developer, I’ve been wondering if someone would do something like this, and am very impressed with what Panorama has done.
I have a few reservations and questions, however.
It should be cross-platform. I’d expect it to run easily on iOS, but their interface apparently has to be rewritten (http://forum.provue.com/t/panorama-x-work-on-iphone/554/2). I wonder if they are planning any kind of cross-platform development system, but since it’s based on Cocoa, I doubt that that is even possible. So lock-in. (I personally plan on sticking with Apple if they ever update their Mac-Mini or MacPro computers.)
I would also like direct connections to “real” relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. I just feel better knowing that the data is in an open source format. Where is Panorama X’s data stored? Is it limited by one’s hard drive?
I’d also like to know how it does with images since I’m interested in photographic data. Images can fill up RAM pretty fast.