Joe Casabona is moving his operations from Airtable to Notion. He said so on 10 November 2023. The page shows a later update stamp of 23 September 2026. The body still describes a move he had started, and checklists he had not written yet.
This is his own post. It is a decision note. It is not a dump log. The Airtable → Notion playbook is the CSV, relations, and attachment path he does not cover here.
Why Airtable lost
A week of illness knocked his process around, and the cracks showed. He was already tired of some of the tools. On social media that week he said most of his operations were going from Airtable to Notion.
He had argued the other way about five months earlier. He says the change is surprising for that reason. He does not link that older post here, and I have not used it.
On Threads, asked what changed, he said Airtable had spent about a year moving features off the plan he pays for, and adding features to the free plan that paying customers still pay extra for. His read is that the product is less interested in small businesses. He likes Notion because it is flexible, because people around him already use it, and because automations had just landed. He also says he understands the Notion bill.
Two more reasons sit next to the pricing complaint. He already spends most of his day in Notion. RSS.com and his assistant, Jordan, work there. Family notes are there too, and sharing those with his wife was easy. When he opens Airtable, it feels slow, and Interfaces still do not put everything he needs on one screen.
The $450 is four switches
He is changing the stack at once, heading into 2024.
- Organization and ops, Airtable to Notion.
- Podcast recording, Riverside to Squadcast, because Squadcast comes with his Descript subscription and he dislikes where Riverside is going.
- Tasks, Todoist to Things 3.
- Scheduling, Calendly to SavvyCal, probably, because SavvyCal fits Squadcast and guest booking depends on that.
He says all of those moves together save $450 a year, and time. The figure covers the four tools. Notion, he adds, stays cheaper even with full-access guests.
The coupling he does describe is the guest-onboarding automation. Airtable to Notion means that automation changes anyway. He can point it at SavvyCal in the same edit. One workflow touches two of the four switches, so he does the rewiring once.
What he has not published
He says the move feels large and is a smaller piece of the 2024 stack change. He still needs to make the checklists. He promises to document the effort later. This post does not contain them.
There is no base count, no table list, no field map, no attachment note, and no automation inventory beyond that guest-onboarding example. There is no “it is done” line. The later date stamp on the page does not add those missing pieces to the body.
So the gains he claims up front are the bill he understands, automations, a tool his collaborators already have open, and $450 a year across four products. The operational result of the Airtable export is outside this source.
What I would copy
Write down which invoice the savings number belongs to. If you quote Casabona’s $450, quote the four tools with it.
Move a shared automation once. His guest onboarding had to change for Notion, so SavvyCal rode along. Split those edits and you test the same workflow twice.
Treat “people already live there” as a real input. Jordan, RSS.com, and his household were in Notion before this post. The migration cost is lower when the other party does not need a new login.
Use the Airtable → Notion playbook when you actually export. CSV will not carry views, automations, or permissions by itself. Casabona’s post tells you when he decided to leave, and it stops before that export.