I simply completed an superior course, ‘Airtable for Creatives’ by designer Kristina Hultkrantz, and thought you would possibly wish to find out about it. In case you’re something like me you’re gonna adore it!
Airtable is a free spreadsheet-meets-database app, however please don’t let that description put you off. It’s a genius organisational instrument that may assist us carry order to our generally chaotic artistic companies and brains!
I’m an organisational freak… One have a look at my wardrobe and also you’d know what I imply. All the things is folded to the identical width. I’m just about like that with my digital info. My laptop information are additionally folded to the identical width, so to talk…
That is additionally why I’m obsessive about lists, storage techniques and all apps that assist me organise my life a method or one other. There’s a lot info to maintain observe of if you’re operating your personal artistic enterprise; designs you’ve created and need to get performed, present and dream purchasers, lengthy and brief time period targets, tasks and to-dos, cash issues, advertising efforts, digital information, programs, and one million extra… We’d like a easy, accessible and environment friendly system to maintain all these items in!
I’m additionally obsessive about having a peek into how different designers/creatives handle and organise their companies… There’s a lot we are able to be taught from watching how different individuals work and what techniques they use!
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I created this course for you, my fellow illustrators, floor sample designers, letterers, or different artistic individuals as a result of I do know first hand how tough it’s to maintain observe of #allofthethings when you find yourself making an attempt to run your personal enterprise.
Kristina Hultkrantz
So, when I discovered Kristina’s class, ‘Airtable for Creatives’, I assumed it was the proper probability to be taught extra in regards to the app. I’ve been taking part in round with it for a couple of months, however having the ability to see it from the angle of one other designer like me, has helped me see extra clearly how it may be used to organise and preserve observe of all the things in a artistic enterprise.
Airtable does that job superbly. It’s simple to be taught, easy to make use of and it’s superb wanting, which is essential for visible people like us. Much more interesting and user-friendly than your standard spreadsheet software program, that’s for certain…
You possibly can organise something with it, and the extra you employ it the extra stuff you discover (and need!) to organise. You possibly can throw at it just about any content material you want, together with attachments, notes, checkboxes, URLs, single and a number of choose, formulation and even hyperlink to different information in different tables. You can too collaborate with different individuals and sync all of your information throughout totally different units.
One among my favorite Airtable options is the choice to see all of your info in a special view from the standard spreadsheet grid. It has a calendar view, nice for managing social media and weblog posting, for instance. A Kanban view (assume Trello), good for venture managing, and a gallery view, wonderful to maintain observe of your design portfolio!
One other highly effective function is the flexibility to filter, type and group all of your info simply the way in which you want it. All these views can be saved so you may simply get to them later.
Kristina, an illustrator, floor sample designer and on-line educator, has been utilizing Airtable for a couple of years and swears by it, and you may see why if you see all of the methods she makes use of it to organise all her enterprise stuff.
My artistic enterprise hasn’t at all times run easily, and my file group and planning system has beforehand been a joke. A few years in the past I lastly prioritised making a easy system for my enterprise and it has helped me in additional methods than one. I not solely really feel extra assured in my enterprise as a result of I deal with it as an precise enterprise quite than a interest, organizing has additionally helped me to realize extra in much less time with much less complications. And now I’m so extremely excited to share all my techniques, suggestions, and tips on this course with all of you. Woo hoo!
Kristina Hultkrantz
In her ‘Airtable for Creatives’ course, Kristina exhibits you preserve observe of issues like:
- Your large, dreamy, long run targets
- Your quarterly, month-to-month, weekly and each day duties
- Your designs, sortable by classes (my favorite!)
- Your online business contacts
- Your gross sales and licensing offers
- Your monetary targets, opinions and statistics
You possibly can see the course curriculum under, however please go to her web site to see a whole breakdown and all different info…
You get 32 video classes, a grasp guidelines to maintain you on observe and also you get 3 Airtable templates together with 19 tables arrange for your enterprise HQ, monetary targets and grasp to-do record. It solely takes roughly 3 hours to observe all of it, so it’s very doable…
The ‘Airtable for Creatives’ course is often $47, however from Friday twenty first to Monday 24rd February 2020 it would go all the way down to $36, as Kristina is celebrating her birthday with a sale!
In case you’re not all in favour of getting the complete class proper now, she has a 5-day free problem to softly introduce you to Airtable to get a begin on getting your artistic enterprise organised. I took it and actually advocate it…
I now have Airtables monitoring all of the programs I personal and need (sure, I’m an addict!), brief and long run targets, recurrent duties, mockup information, and all of the product analysis for my upcoming on-line store, ‘Republic of Pleased’. I’ve plans to make masses extra, together with tasks, funds, design portfolio, purchasers, branding belongings and all my editorial and social media content material planning…
In case you have a geeky aspect like me I promise you, when you give Airtable a go you’ll be obsessed. And even for those who don’t have geeky tendencies I like to recommend you’re taking it for a spin… It would simply change the way in which you’re employed ceaselessly.
We’d love to listen to from you… what different productiveness apps and lessons do you’re keen on and advocate?
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