What are Airtable templates and how can they help you?
Airtable offers an impressive range of free templates that can be molded to the specific needs of your projects or teams. These not only save you time, but also offer practical ideas on how to structure and approach your organizational tasks. Whether you work in a startup or a large enterprise, you can find templates that will allow you to keep better control of processes such as user research, competitor tracking or project management.
Airtable Universe, a community within the platform, goes further by allowing you to share your own bases and templates and get inspired by content from other users and well-known companies.
How to find and use Airtable templates?
Finding the ideal template on Airtable is easy. In the main application, simply navigate to the "templates" option and you will discover a wide variety of themed options:
- Research user journey
- Competitor tracking
- Managing growth experiments
- Launching products
For example, if you need a CRM system, Airtable offers nine CRM templates completely free of charge. The Simple Sales CRM, for example, provides a preview of its structure, showing components such as business, products, contacts and companies. If the template meets your needs, simply select "use" to add and customize it to your preference.
In addition, you can change the name, the color, the layout of the headings and the columns, completely adapting the template to your style and needs. And if you make changes that don't work, no problem! You can restore the original template and start all over again.
What is Airtable Universe and how can you participate?
Airtable Universe is an invaluable community where companies and users share their foundations and technologies. Large companies like Expedia and Twilio are part of this ecosystem, but so are other organizations and users who share everything from user research data to lists of useful resources.
One example of interesting content on Airtable Universe is the "COVID 19 Small Business Resources" guide, a tool created to help small businesses address the pandemic with opportunities for help and resources. This type of collaboration demonstrates how Airtable can be integrated into real and meaningful solutions, allowing you to generate similar innovations in your field.
To share your templates and foundations, Airtable Universe provides you with a window to enter your work, allowing you to explain why you created it before others explore and use your contribution. This feature not only reinforces a sense of community, but also encourages the circulation of knowledge and creativity.
What are the advantages of exploring templates in Airtable?
Exploring and using templates in Airtable implies multiple benefits:
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Saves Time: Opt for pre-designed templates that you can modify and adapt, reducing the effort of building from scratch.
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Stimulate Creativity: Templates offer new perspectives and approaches, inspiring you to innovate within your projects.
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Encourages Collaboration: With Airtable Universe, you can air your methods, receive feedback, and take ideas from others.
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Absolute Flexibility: From deleting to rebuilding templates, you have total freedom to experiment and adapt your tools.
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Global Accessibility: With global access to company and user templates, you'll find valuable resources regardless of your industry.
These templates are the perfect basis for continuous improvements in project management, organizational processes and more. So, we encourage you to dig in, modify and enrich your experience with the tools Airtable makes available to you and continue learning to become an expert in data management.
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