In case you missed it, the recording and notes for last week's Automations webinar is now live: www.getgrist.com/webinars/automations-the...

Register: www.getgrist.com/webinars/automations-the...

Join us on Thursday for an introduction to Grist automations. We'll walk through setting up row-level email notifications that fire automatically when your data changes, and hint at other workflows you can automate.

Register in reply.👇

And to prove that we're serious about April Tools Day, you can add the Whack-a-Cell widget to your Grist doc right now. What are you waiting for?

Engage in real-time, competitive cell-finding. Leave your mark, and climb the corporate leaderboard. Like a bull in a software shop, see red and get mad. If you lose, restart the game until your coworkers get tired of your antics.

Today is a special day, known around the software industry as April Tools Day. On April Tools Day, disruptors and innovators share their most disruptively innovative tools to boost global productivity.

At Grist, Jarek created a new widget that gamifies spreadsheet collaboration: Whack-a-Cell. 🧵

I wanted "PowerPoint, but in Grist." The community had already built it.

Grist is different from most open source projects b/c you don't have to touch the source code to contribute meaningfully.

Custom widgets let you build any interface on top of Grist's data — without touching Grist itself.

Sign up: www.getgrist.com/webinars/how-to-set-up-g...

Tomorrow! Join us as we go over several different Grist + n8n automations: starting with the basics and then dipping into AI workflows and scheduling.

“You’re hiring? How! AI is changing everything.”

We’re hiring, so I’ve gotten a few questions about how I’m thinking about structuring a team in the context of AI. I have two main thoughts 🧵👇

The recording for our webinar on our new Airtable base importer feature is now available: www.getgrist.com/webinars/migrate-airtabl...

Three detailed examples of why Airtable to Grist makes sense.

Work at Grist Labs!

You can now import bases directly from Airtable and keep your data's relationships. See it in action, and all the other cool stuff we're working on (vibe view!) in our February newsletter: https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2026-02/

Tomorrow! Learn how to migrate from Airtable to Grist – and get a sneak peek at our new tool. Rebasing your debased bases into Grist databases is now basic... basically.

Looking for a cool crowdsourced dataset to test a new feature we recently shipped: suggestions. It's a way to propose changes to a spreadsheet without overwriting the original – something which has existed in document editors for years, but never made it to spreadsheets. More in 🧵👇

The reviews are in, Natalie's Grist 101 video might just be the best place to start with Grist. If you've been curious about Grist but aren't sure what the fuss is about, take a look:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7BnmstKnAQ

The recording for Dmitry's webinar on advanced formulas with ordered lookups is now online: www.getgrist.com/webinars/advanced-formul...

Time to get rolling (totals)!

ICYMI, our January newsletter with an answer to "why don't people use Google Docs suggesting mode or MS Word's track changes with spreadsheets?" + a lot more!

https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2026-01/

This is how we found out Grist was at @fosdem.org...

These signs were taped up in every restroom across the venue. It turns out that starting this year, FOSDEM runs its entire inventory system — plus the video backend — on Grist!

Cloudron now has a @getgrist.bsky.social package. Yay! Grist is a spreadsheet / Airtable / FileMaker style app that is open source and self hostable.

forum.cloudron.io/topic/14941/...

Tomorrow! Join co-CEO Dmitry for a special webinar on advanced formulas with ordered lookups. Unlock the power of cumulative calculations, nearest matches, and more!

Register: www.getgrist.com/webinars/advanced-formul...

While you're getting oriented and intentional, check out our December newsletter to ground yourself with Grist. Make 2026 the year you and your data finally work on your relationship.

https://support.getgrist.com/newsletters/2025-12/

Our VisiCalc alert was triggered by this article, but there's a nice Grist mention at the end when discussion the future of the spreadsheet.

Feeling nostalgic about cuneiform tables at Anais' apidays Paris talk.

We are at FOST in Paris this week, with a booth, a screen and desire to talk about spreadsheets, databases, self-hosted software, or even all three at once!

Tomorrow! Join us for a special webinar recapping Grist's 2025. A perfect time to check in and see a condensed version of a year of development. And maybe a sneak peek at 2026?

Sign up: https://www.getgrist.com/webinars/2025-year-in-review/

Grist is back sponsoring Advent of Code 2025! We're also trying to solve the puzzles in Grist and share solutions in Discord, if you're up for it.

EFF is thankful for Grist Labs, helping us keep you secure online.

Join us Thursday as we build a document from scratch with AI's help, and find out what AI can (and can’t) do with relational spreadsheets.

www.getgrist.com/webinars/build-your-docu...

grist-core has just passed 10k stars on GitHub! 💫

See the stars, and the source, right here: https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core