# Filling the gap between (too) simple tables and structured database : "simple spreadsheets"

**URL:** <https://community.fibery.io/t/filling-the-gap-between-too-simple-tables-and-structured-database-simple-spreadsheets/1140>\
**Category:** Ideas & Features\
**Created:** [November 8, 2020, 10:32am UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/filling-the-gap-between-too-simple-tables-and-structured-database-simple-spreadsheets/1140 "2020-11-08T10:32:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Oshyan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.fibery.io/oshyan/32/11431_2.png) [@Oshyan](https://community.fibery.io/u/Oshyan)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2020, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.fibery.io/t/filling-the-gap-between-too-simple-tables-and-structured-database-simple-spreadsheets/1140/2 "2020-11-08T15:00:23Z")

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I agree this is a need, and not just in Fibery, but Notion too, which I only mention because the lack of it in these two tools is interesting. So I’m anxious to see if there will be any movement to solve it. For Notion, their upcoming public API _may_ allow for that kind of interaction with Google Sheets that would give you tight enough integration, including search of Sheets content from within Notion. They already have a good embedding system.

For Fibery, given that developing and maintaining spreadsheet-like functionality is probably a bit of a pain (and once they do, it’s another semi-major feature that people will want _more_ features put into), I think I’d rather see them take their existing (and ever-improving) API/integration functionality, and connect to the whole G Suite of tools. This goes a little off-topic of your feature request for a moment, but I think integrating all of G Suite would be really excellent and help adoption and retention in a big way. You’d get:

- Embed G Sheet in Fibery and manipulate directly; ideally the ability to interact with the data in e.g. formula fields, too
- Create Fibery Entity from Gmail, open contents of source email from Fibery entity (e.g. for tasks)
- Attach and view G Drive files in Entities  
And more…

Much of this is already available in tools like ClickUp and it’s very useful indeed!

Combine that with [Embed Views in Rich Text](https://community.fibery.io/t/embed-views-in-rich-text/936) and you’d have a good solution, I think.

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