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 How to stay productive even when interrupted Picture the scene... There you are, working hard to meet deadlines, ploughing through your to-do list like a pro. You're in the zone, surfing the productivity wave. When, all of a sudden, life intrudes! An email, a phone call, an angry client on your doorstep, an unannounced visitor. A few interruptions like that during the day and before you know it it's getting dark outside and you're pulling another late-nighter to get your work finished. The next day you start afresh with good intentions and
BLOG Automate Trello to send an email for a completed task You love Trello but your clients still use email. They don't receive project notifications because they are not on the Trello board. How can you automate Trello so that it sends an email when a task has been completed? Rob, who manages a property maintenance business, recently got in touch with this very question. He runs his company very effectively with Trello but most of his clients work exclusively by email. So when Rob's contractors finish a task, like painting a room or fixing a cooker, s
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 Retrospective: My Trello workshop at Hubud in Bali My family and I are currently travelling in Bali and Australia for a few months. It's our last chance for a grand gesture before our son starts school back in London in September. For the last 5 weeks I've been stationed at the lovely Hubud co-working space in Ubud, Bali. If you've ever wanted to work in a hammock while monkeys are sitting in the trees above you, this is the place to go! Not to mention the amazing group of highly focussed international entrepreneurs, digital nomads and online ex
BLOG How can I notify everybody on my Trello board? How can I message everybody on my Trello board at the same time? This question was asked by Chris Thompson of the amazing Green School in Bali at our recent Trello workshop at Hubud. He wanted to update his entire team in one go, without having to mention every team member individually. Interestingly enough I had the same problem just a week before. One of our test servers had had a software problem and needed updating - a quick message to the entire team prevented them from making changes until
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
