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Add emails to Airtable
Add any email to Airtable in seconds, without leaving your inbox. It works with every email provider, and there is nothing to install or set up.
Megan Croft
Quote for garden landscaping
Your instructions
Add this enquiry to the Leads table in the CRM base.
Airtable
Add a record for Megan Croft
CRM / Leads
You receive a confirmation email once complete, with an undo button that works for 24 hours.
Setup in 30 seconds.
How it works
Forward the email to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add this enquiry to the Leads table in the CRM base".
The record lands in the table from your instructions, with details from the email matched to your own column names. Ask for an existing record to be updated instead and that is what happens.
You receive a confirmation email containing a link to the new record, plus an undo button if something doesn't look right.
What is ForwardThis?
ForwardThis is an AI email assistant that turns email into action in 144+ of the apps you use every day.
Works with any email
Compatible with any personal or professional email provider. Gmail, Outlook and more.
144+ apps
Works across the apps you already use, with more added every month.
Setup in seconds
Nothing to install and no workflows to build. Sign up, forward an email, and it runs.
Secure & private
ForwardThis only acts on the emails you send it, and the email is deleted within 24 hours of the work being done.
Try it with a real email.
Forward any email to the address below to see what ForwardThis can do. No signup required.
Occasional product emails may follow.
FAQs
- How do I add an email to Airtable?
- Forward it to your ForwardThis address with some simple instructions, like "add this enquiry to the Leads table in the CRM base". ForwardThis creates the record and replies with a link. The first time, you will need a free ForwardThis account with Airtable connected. It takes about 30 seconds.
- How does it know which fields to fill in?
- It matches details from the email to your table's own column names. A name goes in Name, an email address in Email; say which columns you care about and it fills the ones it can.
- Can it read details from inside an attachment?
- No. ForwardThis reads the email itself, not the contents of attached files. If the details you need are in an attached PDF, put them in the message when you forward it.
- Can it attach the file to the record as well?
- Yes. Ask for the attachment to go into an attachment column and it is uploaded with the record. Airtable caps a single upload at 5 MB.
- What if the record already exists?
- Tell ForwardThis which column identifies it, and the matching record is updated instead of a duplicate being added.
- Could I use an Airtable form instead?
- You could, if the sender is willing to fill one in. A form asks the other person to do the typing; forwarding the email means nobody has to. Both end in the same table.
- Does it work with Outlook and other email apps?
- Yes. ForwardThis works with any email provider: Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail and everything else. If it can forward an email, it works.
- What happens to my email afterwards?
- It gets deleted. ForwardThis holds your email briefly in case you press undo, then removes it completely. Nothing is stored long term.