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Use Cases
Use this page to understand what tool is the best one depending of your use case.
Airtable
Good use cases
✅ CSM (Content Management System)
✅ Large Databases (20K+ rows)
✅ Submission forms
Challenging use cases
🚫 Serving as a single source of truth—limited integrations, no writing surface, no embeds
🚫 Editing and collaboration for larger teams
🚫 Writing surface for write-ups, PRDs, strategy docs, and more.
🚫 Powerful formulas and calculations
Notion
Good use cases
✅ Simple tables
✅ Small Databases
✅ Writing surface and simple tables
Challenging use cases
🚫 Serving as a single source of truth—limited integrations, issues at scale
🚫 Editing and collaboration for larger teams
🚫 Powerful formulas and calculations
🚫 Data visualization
Coda
Good use cases
✅ Single source of truth—bring docs, tables, apps, and your team into one place
✅ Powerful formulas in tables or in text
✅ Integration & management for other platforms
✅ Collaboration for big teams
Challenging use cases
🚫 Financial modeling
🚫 CMS for websites
🚫 Database with 100K+ rows
Google Sheets
Good use cases
✅ Flexible surface with individual cells
✅ Free platform
✅ Easy to share and collaborate
Challenging use cases
🚫 Serving as a single source of truth—constantly linking out to docs, apps, etc.
🚫 Writing surface
🚫 Data dashboards
🚫 Relational databases
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