March 25, 2026
Grist Widget Grouped Views
A Grist custom widget that displays table records grouped by any column value, similar to Notion or Airtable grouped views.
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February 1, 2026
Marimo widget : run python notebooks inside Grist!
I’m extremely happy to announce the creation of a new widget: “Marimo in Grist”. Marimo is a modern alternative to Jupyter notebooks that let you edit, run, share and play with Python scripts.
Upload attachment from custom widget
A simple custom widget to upload attachment.
Gristar-- command-line utility to list, and extract attachments from .grist database files
I’ve build a prototype of a tar like gristar command which extracts grist attachments in bulk from a grist file. If you use it, be aware that this is a prototype.
More Grist Community Widgets
A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid
January 28, 2026
Grist: More Action Button Widget Explanation
Grist has an extremely useful feature: User Actions. Unfortunately, there is almost no documentation on this subject. This post is my attempt to solve this problem, and empower more people (both user and developers) to use them.
lookupOrAddDerived Undocumented Grist Function
There is an undocumented method lookupOrAddDerived, which behaves like lookupOne but creates a matching record if one isn’t found.
We need to explore this function. This cound be useful for several of our use cases.
November 3, 2025
Grist CTL
Command-line tool for interacting with Grist.
Grist is a versatile platform for creating and managing custom data applications. It blends the capabilities of a relational database with the adaptability of a spreadsheet, empowering users to design advanced data workflows, collaborate in real-time, and automate tasks—all without requiring code.
How to generate and send by email a sum-up PDF after the completion of a form (with n8n and Gotenborg) - Showcase - Grist Creators
First, excuse my English for I’m a French Grist enthusiast. I searched for weeks a way to send a PDF file once a form has been submitted in order the user gets a ready-to-print summary of what he’d just filled.
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This is what we might have been needing all along, automatic creation of PDF from our Grist data. We need to explore this further.
September 16, 2025
Grist attachment viewer widget
I’m really surprised that there’s no built-in custom widget for viewing attachments. It was easy enough for ChatGPT to make one for me with the Custom Widget Builder, but given the existence of the image viewer widget, it seems like something like this should be built-in.