Chapter 1. Signing Up and Taking a Quick Tour

The hardest challenge you’ll ever face with QuickBase is quickly describing what it is. A highly customizable database? A workflow management system? A Web site that can make your working life a whole heckuva lot easier? Yes, yes, and yes.

Because it helps with so many different tasks, QuickBase doesn’t fit neatly into the program categories we’re used to talking about—database or spreadsheet programs, contact managers, or project management applications, for instance. But whatever you want to call it, at heart, QuickBase is an amazingly powerful and endlessly customizable database, whose greatest tools are offered up to you, lucky QuickBase user, even as you’re shielded from some of the highly technical underpinnings that power everything it can do.