Greeting and intro to newsletter theme/topic

In This Flow (stick to these 5 sections)

• Can the US gov own stake in a private sector business?

• Fitness tools for you to try out

• The community shares their fav fitness coaching tools

• Jotform just stepped in the presentation deck making arena 👀

• Automatically save Airtable attachments to Google Drive folders

//HEADLINE

The US government is a 10% shareholder in Intel now?🤯🤯

Intel was struggling with being a competitive player in the chipmaking market and the US federal government has stepped in to save it. Is this crossing the line for the separation of private enterprise and government?

Other news: Google’s Nano Banana Image AI is taking the lead in the AI imaging competition. See what it can do.

//APPS

Fitness tools to use

Personal Use (Lili’s Favorites)

👉 Technogym - scan any Technogym branded machines at a gym to track your workouts and keep the history

👉 Hevy - Don’t have a specific branded machine? Then use Hevy to track your workouts with also pair us with your coach to share progress

👉 CalDiet - Personalized fitness and nutrition tracking for iOS and Android

Fitness Business Use

👉 PTDistinction - is a complete coaching platform that helps personal trainers deliver programs, track progress, automate reminders, and manage clients through their own custom-branded app

👉 Fitsw - is a comprehensive fitness platform that lets trainers manage clients, deliver workouts, track nutrition and progress, accept payments, host live classes, and even get AI form feedback

👉 Glofox - is a fitness management platform that helps studios and gyms run smoother by managing members, class bookings, payments, marketing, and retention in a branded app and dashboard

//COMMUNITY

What tools do you use for as a fitness business owner or coach?

“For course hosting, I'd also add Skool (not affiliated but a user). I've used that and found it much easier and more intuitive than Kajabi was (for me at least).” - Reddit Member

“FitIQ -> a niche, nonetheless very useful tool for many coaches that need insight into WHOOP data.” - Reddit Member

//INSIGHTS//UPDATES

Popular software tools created some new things!

• You can finally copy/paste filters across different elements in an Interface in Airtable and other exciting new interface features.
  

  

• Jotform, a form builder, is getting into presentation slide shows now? Honestly didn’t see this coming. The Presentation Agents can add AI voices to present your slides and answer live questions to keep viewers engaged.
  

  

//HACKS//TEMPLATES//TUTORIALS

• Need to automatically save Airtable attachments to Google Drive to get a public link? Follow this automation set up in Make. It creates a separate folder for each record, then adds the images, then adds the public image links in the Airtable record.

  

//PROBLEMSOLVED

We love it when a community comes together

See this weeks finds of solved questions in the Make and Airtable communities and tweak to fit your needs.

❓Formulas in Airtable work a little different than Excel or Google Sheets, but they can still be pretty powerful! A user wanted to know how they could get the average of the top/bottom 20% of a set of sales numbers? Check out the answer.

❓Using filters in the right places can save you a lot of unwanted operations in Make. See how this “limit” filter saved the day.