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I'm still confused by what usecases Airtable or this has. Are there any for project management/app design and dev that can't be done by Trello/Notion?

Airtable is basically more like an online version of MS Access/dBase/FoxPro, database + forms/presentation. So it's very customizable and you can essentially roll your own project management app, or CRM or whatever you can think of.

As someone who used all of those notes:

1. You can embed Airtables. Combine that with a Markdown editor and you have a powerful note taking device similar to Notion.

2. Public forms. Basically you can turn the table into a form and the data users enter into it become rows in an Airtable. Not achievable with Trello/Notion.

3. It has a functioning API, unlike Notion. I can add/retrieve/modify data via scripts/IFTTT/Zapier.

4. Org charts and Gantt charts.

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