Databases are Cool Now: Here’s 3 I use for a Better Life & Business

To do lists, task managers, calendar apps, spreadsheets, Google Drive folders, there are thousands of ways people try to manage important things to do and life data.

Databases are the best way to do that for almost everything, but particularly now because they are now so easy to use, visualize and access.

I will avoid the temptation to define what a database is, I actually don’t think that will provide value. You can think of them as sets of data, displayed in a specific way, which probably doesn’t mean much, see examples below for them to come alive.

Before they were for nerds, and likely why people will ignore them and continue to ignore them for some time. It’s true they are tools that you just don’t get the value from until you apply effort to them. Don’t let that deter you, soon they “click” and then are so valuable.

Today, databases [specifically modern web app tools for them] are immediately useful, super powerful for living an efficient and designed life. I can’t tell you how many hours they have saved me, and goals they have catalyzed me to take action on.

Here are 3 I use daily, and I have somewhere upwards of 15 I use weekly.

Note: This doesn’t include the two I use most frequently due to their private data.

Note 2: I use two different tools for the databases in my life, Airtable and Notion.so

Home Management

https://www.notion.so/robertgranholm/e08297a9f8d748f8ad7de99f50a51247?v=afe49c4c69074d2c8a9dbec59708b0bb

Tracking my dogs vet appointments and meds…
Daily task tracker
Yearly goal tracker
Book reading tracker
Home Maintenance list
Home Inventory…
IT Arsenal Client Work Manager
Health and Fitness goal and progress capture

I invite you to open up an account with Airtable or Notion.so and play around, contact me if you want some personal instruction or to chat about how to make them useful to you! [referral links included]