What CoIsland watches in Airtable

Each monitor kind brings its own query and its own card in the notch.

How to watch Airtable from your Mac’s notch

Each monitor is a ring in the notch that counts down to its next check. When a record starts matching, the notch opens for a few seconds and the card lists it as Tasks · Status: Blocked · Owner: Ana Lopez: which table, and the fields that say where it stands.

A click opens the alert in CoIsland, where the record fills in live: every field, long text in full, and Open in Airtable. Connect Airtable covers the token, both kinds and every error; all connectors share one page.

Connect it in three steps

  1. Create a personal access token at airtable.com/create/tokens with data.records:read and schema.bases:read, for the bases to watch.

  2. Add an Airtable connector with it. Test connector says who you are and which bases it reaches.

  3. Pick a base, a table and a view by name, write a formula, and choose when it alerts.

Built for Airtable

  • Your own token, limited to the bases you give it. No app to register.
  • Read only: two read scopes, and it never writes a record.
  • Airtable's own formulas, as in a formula field.
  • The token stays in the macOS Keychain and goes only to Airtable's API.

Then hand it to an agent

A click on the alert opens the agent in a terminal under it, with the whole alert as its first message.

Airtable questions

Which scopes does the token need?

data.records:read to read records and schema.bases:read to list bases, tables and views. Nothing that writes.

Can my company block it?

Yes. On Enterprise, an admin can block API access to the organization's bases for everyone not on an allowlist. CoIsland then says the token is not allowed.

Will it alert me about every record already there?

No. The first check learns what is already there and stays quiet; after that, only what is new alerts.

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