BLOG How to get your team to stop using endless email threads FOREVER We get it-- you like the idea of less email. Conversations can be concentrated within certain apps (whichever it might be--of course we like Trello ;)), but your team isn’t complying. The email threads continue. And continue. Ad nauseum. How do you get them to ADAPT, already? Fortunately there something truly simple you can do to make them stop the email nonsense forever. In our lifetime, the social skill of setting and maintaining boundaries has been all but lost. This isn’t done by enforcing
BLOG Trello Tip: See what you need to work on right now We're going to take it back to the bare essentials with this tip. And that's to answer the age-old question: What do you need to work on right now? How can you become more productive and focus on the most important tasks in your to do list? Here's a scenario you might be familiar with: You diligently add all tasks into Trello. After a while you have so many cards on your Trello board that it becomes really difficult to know what you should be working on next. You are constantly playing catchup,
BLOG Trello Tip: Make your meetings 1000 times more productive The Win: Make your meetings, phone calls, Skype calls massively more productive. Keep track of what is decided during meetings, phone calls, Skype calls. Easily create tasks and assign them to members of your team. The Problem: During a call, it's easy to make decisions, plan the next move, come up with a brilliant strategy. Everybody agrees on the next few steps. Some may take notes. But often the details are forgotten, nobody takes action afterwards and the meeting ends up being an unproducti
BLOG Trello Tip: Keep track of lots of projects at the same time The Win: You'll be able to keep track of all your projects at the same time, across multiple Trello boards and gives you back a feeling of control. The Pain: Once you start using Trello in earnest, you automatically end up with lots of boards. It can become difficult to keep track of what you should be doing where and to get insight into all your projects without having to switch between boards all the time. As a result you miss important tasks and become an inefficient manager. Possible solut
BLOG Personal Scrum Quickstart Guide Greetings, fellow humans! It is I, Emily Breder, returned after a long sabbatical from Bernie's blog to give you the how-to you've been waiting for: how to take the most popular of Agile methods, Scrum, and apply it to your everyday work without a software development team, or even a software project. Bernie and I have been running our daily scrum for a few months now and have been amazed by the jump in productivity we've experienced. Yes, even I, the Original Productivity Nerd have been amazed
BLOG How to: Create Trello cards from Slack We recently wrote a blog post on How to integrate Trello and Slack. The stand-alone integration is fairly simple, and the question came up whether you could create a Trello card from inside a Slack channel conversation. It turns out the answer is YES, although it’s not exactly straightforward. Read on to find out how it works. Zapier to the rescue Trello and Slack alone can’t talk to each other very well - Slack will only see your Trello notifications, and that’s basically it. However, with t
BLOG How to: Integrate Trello with Slack We are often asked: “Can I integrate Trello with Slack”? The answer is a resounding YES and we’ll show you how to do it in a few easy steps. Trello vs. Slack In case you’ve never heard of either Trello or Slack, here is a quick introduction: Trello is a free, easy-to-use online project management tool, extremely popular with both companies and individuals. Slack is an instant messaging website that lets your team communicate easily in real-time. Together they form a killer combination and int
BLOG How to: Connect Trello to the Sunrise Calendar Trello is well known for its ease of use as an online project management tool. We recently wrote about how easy it is to set up the Trello calendar to manage your weekly and monthly work schedule. You can also integrate your Trello calendar with Google Calendar for a fairly basic read-only setup. The good news is that there is an online calendar that offers much better Trello support, including the ability to update Trello cards from within the calendar - and that is the Sunrise Calendar. Let me
BLOG How to: Integrate Trello with Google Calendar There are 2 online tools that I use the most - Trello, for online project, business and life management, and Google Calendar, to schedule meetings and keep track of deadlines. Perhaps you work in a similar way. Let me show you how you can connect the Trello calendar to your Google Calendar, so that Trello due dates show up in your Google Calendar. Step 1: Find the iCal feed web link in Trello I’m assuming that you have already turned on Trello’s Calendar Power Up and are setting due dates on
BLOG How to set up the Trello Calendar Perhaps you already know Trello as an easy-to-use project management tool and online to-do list. Did you know that you can also use Trello to schedule your time, set deadlines and manage your weekly and monthly work schedule? Let me show you how in 3 easy steps. Step 1: Set a Due Date on a Trello Card To begin with, you will need to set a due date on a Trello card. This is straightforward and is quick to do. The due date will show up on the card itself as a little label. Each card that has a
BLOG How to organise absolutely anything with Trello Do you have a project that you want to get off the ground? Perhaps you are organising an event, starting a business, launching an app, planning a wedding or looking to get fit? Follow this simple process to get organised and to start, plan and deliver your project on time. Fields marked with a * are required. Do you want to find the MOST IMPORTANT THING you need every day for a more meaningful, stress-free life? Subscribe for free and receive weekly Trello tips in your inbox. Let’s ge
BLOG How to see all your Trello cards in one place Here's a short but sweet mid-week tip on how to see all your Trello cards in one place. If you're anything like me you've got loads of different Trello boards set up. I checked just now and I have about 80! That means there are potentially tasks waiting for me across 80 Trello boards! I can already feel the panic rising :) And yet I still sleep well at night. Let me share my secret with you. All your cards in one place You can try it right now, point your browser here: https://trello.com/me
