Commenting in Airtable

1. Open your Airtable homepage.

2. Click your account profile photo in the top-right corner.

3. Click Notification preferences.

4. Select the checkboxes next to “Mobile push notifications” and “Email.”

1. Open your Airtable homepage.

2. Click your account profile photo in the top-right corner.

3. Click Notification preferences.

4. Deselect the checkboxes next to “Mobile push notifications” and “Email.”

1. Open your Airtable homepage.

2. Select and open your preferred base.

3. Select the record you want to expand and press your spacebar.

4. Enter your comment in the bottom right.

   1. You can also mention collaborators by typing the @ symbol, followed by their namein the bottom right.

• React to a message with emojis by clicking the smiley face icon.

• Create a comment thread by clicking the dialog bubble icon.

• Delete or edit a comment you previously made, click the ... icon.

1. Open your Airtable homepage.

2. Select and open your preferred base.

3. Select the record you want to expand and press your spacebar.

4. Click the bell icon in the top-right corner.

5. Select either “Notify me only for @ mentions” or “Notify me about all comments.”

When a user field type is set up to notify users when they’re added, future collaborators will automatically be added to watch any comments that they are assigned to. Watching via a user field allows you to watch multiple records' comments at one time by copying and pasting a collaborator's information into multiple cells simultaneously.

1. Open your Airtable homepage.

2. Select and open your preferred base.

3. Select your user field.

4. Toggle on the “Notify users with base access when they're added” option.

• Comment on a record.

• Are mentioned in a record or comment.  

• When a collaborator or automation adds you to a user field type with the option to "Notify users when they’re added" turned on before adding new collaborators to records.

You can summarize all of the comments made in a record within a base or an interface.

From a base:

1. Navigate to the record of your choice and expand the record.

2. At the top of the comments section on the right side of the expanded record, click Summarize.

3. Depending on the number of comments, it may take a moment for the AI to finish summarizing. Once finished you’ll see a text summary appear.

From an interface:

1. Navigate to the interface page and record of your choice and click into the record details. Note that not all interface pages allow for record details to be viewed. Additionally, not all record detail pages will have comments enabled.

2. Click on Add a comment… near the bottom of the record detail page.

3. Click the Summarize option.

Regardless of the surface you are using, the AI may take a moment to generate a summary of the comments for you to read, especially when there is a particularly long comment history.

Note

Make sure that you are in the “Comments” section. If the dropdown option is on “All activity” or “Revision history” then you will not see the Summarize button appear.

1. Click the … icon in the upper right corner of the summary box.

   

2. Click the Delete summary option.

3. After deleting the summary, the Summarize button should reappear.

Expected behavior

• All comments will be summarized

• Summaries can be seen by other collaborators

Limitations

• A subsection of comments cannot be summarized, only the whole feed of comments can be summarized.

• The Airtable Web API is unable to pull out the metadata of summarized comments

• When the “Prevent external users from seeing each other” setting is enabled, the ability to summarize comments will be disabled

Although your workspace's plan limits your revision history, base comments remain visible until manually deleted.

To create a copy of your preferred base without comments, you can duplicate the base and uncheck the "Duplicate comments" box.