# AIRTABLE LAB MEETING NOTES ![only database gif I could find](https://media.giphy.com/media/110dhxfJebYOTm/giphy.gif) ## MEETING 4 people * Marlon * Katie * Jordan * Casey * Shava * Dani STUFF: * how to help people use airtable as a database, and not just a spreadsheet? NEXT STEPS * exploring typeform and how it would work for us/with our systems * talk with HUIT Rob about mailchimp contact problems * ## MEETING 3 people * Marlon * Katie * Jordan * Casey * Shava * Dani * Laura * Suzanna NEXT! * docs that go over each subject covered by the LiL course * half on classic database usage, half on how it relates to airtable * working groups on our own case studies and Central organization of data * forms: where most of the work needs to happen ## MEETING 2 people * Marlon * Katie * Jordan * Casey * Shava * Dani NEXT! * watch [chapter on normalization](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/programming-foundations-databases-2/normalization-2?u=2194065) ## MEETING 1 people: * Suzanna * Jordan * Casey * Dani * Katie * Marlon * Shava **goal:** put together resource docs on “database basics” **idea:** everyone can use these resources docs to spend 5-10 minutes grasping key concepts that people should understand about databases if they’re going to plan one. If they do this once, it will REALLY saves them time down the line! **we decided** * to watch the first three chunks of [this LinkedIn Learning Course on Database Basics](https://www.linkedin.com/learning/programming-foundations-databases-2/relationship-rules-and-referential-integrity?u=2194065) * to meet up and work on the first couple of resource docs in Hackmd.io next time * for everyone to get signed up for hackmd.io (then Jordan invited them to this workspace). ### NEXT! we'll work on resource docs related to * records and fields (or objects and properties--whatever you want to call them) * relations (one to one, one to many, many to many) * normalization (1NF, 2NF, 3NF) * queries (& Airtable Views & Filters) * tools for planning databases (ERDs, scraps of paper, etc.) * Bok internal (once the structure is confirmed, let's map it out) * scripting in Airtable