Daily Service Log Workflow - Plain Text and Numbers or Excel

Scenario:

I have to submit weekly activity of my service to my office. The activity is logged inside an Excel Spreadsheet (I use Numbers) and looks like this:

The process is annoying and sometimes I forget to do this right after the service is provided.

I created a shortcuts that does the following:

  1. Choose Contact
  2. Append text to a text file

May 20, 2020 - Clinic - Therapy - Smith, John

I would like to take it a step further. However, it looks like it is impossible to paste this info into a Numbers file or Airtable.

Copying and pasting plain text into Numbers does not put the data into separate cells.

May 19, 2020 - ClinicA - Assessment - Uber, Carlo
May 20, 2020 - ClinicB - Therapy - Smith, John

Any suggestions?

Edit: I found a solution with Airtable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySpVqvzM_Ss

Edit 2: Another solution is to uses Append to Numbers.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a457ee5f3709448aaf556534066de687

Just add the file path in the second action to an existing numbers file that must be located in the shortcuts folder in iCloud, optionally you can change it to Dropbox if you like.

Type the name in normally like John Smith, the shortcut will convert it to last name, first name.

I know you’ve found your solution, and I don’t have a Mac at hand to test this, but I’d wager the copy and paste would have worked if the text was in CSV format, or— bearing in mind the fact that you use commas within some of your columns — TSV format…

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