This is amazing, and also I feel like I need an even more basic tutorial of like... how to set it up. I love everything I'm seeing here in the screenshots and then I go to my completely empty airtable and, I don't know, I get blank-page paralysis? I am painfully overwhelmed.
Oh that's a great idea to import! I've been using google drive to track everything and I'd like to start transitioning over. I'll start there and see where it takes me. Thank you!!
I get Very excited about spreadsheets. It's become a joke in our family I love them so much. Almost as much as writing lists. And yet, I have never got into Airtable. But you may well convert me.
I have spreadsheets of art director and designer names who I've sent emails to, with notes on bounce-backs and the occasional actual response. For most projects I will set up a spreadsheet tracker of some kind, if the work is over a long period I'll include deadlines and status of each illustration/spread/batch with links to the relevant file (previously on Creative Cloud and now usually OneDrive). When I was regularly creating patterns for studios, I would track how long a pattern took to create, whether it was a for a 'call for art', designing to a specific trend (or a combination of trends) or just completely self-initiated, and I tracked things like colours and keywords. For non-client work I have trackers to keep me drawing/uploading to microstock, POD, etc. I do also have some 'dead' spreadsheets where I started trying to track stats, but didn't maintain them - so I had some with specific designs that I was putting on microstock and PODs and comparing how they were doing, to try to find a pattern or keywords that always worked or something like that. But, like I said, I didn't keep that up. I feel like it's time to try that again (for that elusive perennial, aka 'passive' - income) though, so maybe I'll try and pivot (ahem) to Airtable. I am a (publishing) project manager in my 'other life', so it does kind of come naturally to me. Though I sometimes feel like I don't want to project manage my creative business, because then it won't be quite so much fun, but really, now I think about it, I should be leaning into those organisational skills and project managing the heck out of my creative business!
Oh my goodness. I love it! I have set up a table for my artwork and I love that you can add the actual artwork and view it as a gallery, and how you can load up each entry and type everything in on its own pop-up page/form, or use the spreadsheet. I'm adding in descriptions, categories and tags, and fields for where they are displayed and whether they're on PODs, microstocks, licensed, etc. So, I'll be able to go there to grab those bits of information when adding to a portfolio, etc. instead of making it up from scratch every time. I may well add more fields going forward - I love how easy it is to do so, actually.
And I think I'll import my submissions tables and then do more with them, too. Maybe that will keep me on a regular submissions schedule! :
I’ve been wanting to understand Airtable for a little while! This is great! My only experience with it is zapping data into it—do you use zaps or anything like that or do you manually enter everything?
I get excited about good spreadsheets, and have been "Airtable Curious " for a while now. Specifically I'd like to use it for my artwork tracking and other things. I'd also like to find a way to use it for my production management projects.
This is amazing, and also I feel like I need an even more basic tutorial of like... how to set it up. I love everything I'm seeing here in the screenshots and then I go to my completely empty airtable and, I don't know, I get blank-page paralysis? I am painfully overwhelmed.
Oh that's a great idea to import! I've been using google drive to track everything and I'd like to start transitioning over. I'll start there and see where it takes me. Thank you!!
I get Very excited about spreadsheets. It's become a joke in our family I love them so much. Almost as much as writing lists. And yet, I have never got into Airtable. But you may well convert me.
I have spreadsheets of art director and designer names who I've sent emails to, with notes on bounce-backs and the occasional actual response. For most projects I will set up a spreadsheet tracker of some kind, if the work is over a long period I'll include deadlines and status of each illustration/spread/batch with links to the relevant file (previously on Creative Cloud and now usually OneDrive). When I was regularly creating patterns for studios, I would track how long a pattern took to create, whether it was a for a 'call for art', designing to a specific trend (or a combination of trends) or just completely self-initiated, and I tracked things like colours and keywords. For non-client work I have trackers to keep me drawing/uploading to microstock, POD, etc. I do also have some 'dead' spreadsheets where I started trying to track stats, but didn't maintain them - so I had some with specific designs that I was putting on microstock and PODs and comparing how they were doing, to try to find a pattern or keywords that always worked or something like that. But, like I said, I didn't keep that up. I feel like it's time to try that again (for that elusive perennial, aka 'passive' - income) though, so maybe I'll try and pivot (ahem) to Airtable. I am a (publishing) project manager in my 'other life', so it does kind of come naturally to me. Though I sometimes feel like I don't want to project manage my creative business, because then it won't be quite so much fun, but really, now I think about it, I should be leaning into those organisational skills and project managing the heck out of my creative business!
Oh my goodness. I love it! I have set up a table for my artwork and I love that you can add the actual artwork and view it as a gallery, and how you can load up each entry and type everything in on its own pop-up page/form, or use the spreadsheet. I'm adding in descriptions, categories and tags, and fields for where they are displayed and whether they're on PODs, microstocks, licensed, etc. So, I'll be able to go there to grab those bits of information when adding to a portfolio, etc. instead of making it up from scratch every time. I may well add more fields going forward - I love how easy it is to do so, actually.
And I think I'll import my submissions tables and then do more with them, too. Maybe that will keep me on a regular submissions schedule! :
And I am certain I'll love even more about it.
I’ve been wanting to understand Airtable for a little while! This is great! My only experience with it is zapping data into it—do you use zaps or anything like that or do you manually enter everything?
Cool! Thanks for sharing!
I get excited about good spreadsheets, and have been "Airtable Curious " for a while now. Specifically I'd like to use it for my artwork tracking and other things. I'd also like to find a way to use it for my production management projects.