In this article I’ll show you how to setup reminder emails that will get sent automatically each day if there are any pending tasks in your spreadsheet. Stay tuned until the end, where I’ll show you an easier way to accomplish this using Coda.
Eric Koleda must be the undisputed master of the Apps Script demo. The ‘random cat’ Add-on, is one of my favourite examples where Eric finds a really simple hook to get you engaged in what can often be a complex project. Eric is now Developer Advocate at Coda and he’s not lost is eye. In this post Eric gives the gift of script with a basic example of how you can handle email notifications from Google Form responses in batches with a timed trigger (cats being replaced for cakes). Eric also shows how a no-code alternative can be accomplished in Coda.
At this year’s Google Cloud Next I co-presented a session entitled “How to grow a spreadsheet into an application,” where the thesis was that it’s OK to start with a spreadsheet and layer on additional technologies as you gain adoption and your requirements change. However that doesn’t mean that Sheets is always a great choice for storing your application’s data, and in this post I’ll explore some of the signals that you should be looking into other database options. Sheets are for people!
