BLOG Our round-up of the best Trello extensions Trello is simple to use and easy to learn. On the other hand, it still can't do some pretty basic things. If you've ever tried to count the number of cards in a list, see lots of lists on screen at the same time or export your Trello board to a spreadsheet, you'll know that it's impossible. To help you out in these sticky situations, we've compiled a list of the best Trello extensions. They run right in your web browser and add missing features. Here are the best* Trello extensions, roughly in
BLOG How to get emails into Trello, fast! This post is aimed at the freelancers and professionals out there who use Trello to organise their work but still receive change requests and client feature requests by email! If you're sick of constantly copy-pasting or retyping client emails into a Trello card, read on for a much quicker way to get your emails into Trello! Forward client emails to Trello The key to getting emails into Trello fast is that each Trello board has its own, unique email address. Any emails that you send to that a
BLOG What Do You Wish Other People Knew About #Trello? The best part about Trello is how it is a blank canvas and you can do what you want, it took us a while to appreciate that, so with this post and the workshops we run in our coworking space we are out to help people "find their Trello voice."
BLOG Dealing with finished Trello cards (without cluttering up your board) This question comes up again and again. What should you do with a Trello card when you've finished working on it? You don't want these cards to clutter up your Trello board but, at the same time, you don't want to lose the information. Here's how we deal with finished cards and build a tighter team in the process. The very short answer is - we archive finished Trello cards. It gets them out of the way and means they don't clutter the board. If you stop there, however, you'd be missing out on a
BLOG Keep Going: Building Daily Habits & Scrum Keep Going These days I am beyond the horror, drama, darkness of depression and I have dived fully into never getting there again. As a reader of this blog or my personal weekly email, you will have watched this unfold with both the joy and the crap. Habits and Comfort Zones My “deliberate practice” mega mission is to develop habits that will get me doing what matters. This made me identify the exit out of my real comfort zone. I thought my getting out my comfort zone was running fast, a co
BLOG Managing your team with Trello You manage a team using Trello and want to assign tasks to your team members. But how can you see what else they already have going on and whether they are overloaded or have spare capacity? How can you keep an eye on whether your team members are meeting their deadlines and what they should focus on next? Finding out what your team members are working on in Trello is simple but the functionality is incredibly well hidden. When people see it for the first time it’s one of those eye-opening ‘aha
BLOG How to track project dependencies in Trello Project dependencies are a normal part of everyday life. Complex tasks break down into smaller tasks that depend on each other. To make an omelette, you first have to buy eggs. To build a website, you first have to discuss requirements and finish the designs. To organise an event, you have to decide on a date and book a venue before sending out invitations. Trello doesn't come with built-in functionality to manage project dependencies. There is no way to visually link Trello cards and no way to
BLOG How can I give a user in Trello read-only access? Trello is a collaboration tool and it's easy to add new members to a Trello board. Often you don't want those new members to have the same permissions as everybody else. Clients might need access to a project's board to see progress but without the need to comment or move cards around. Similarly, you might want to restrict what a user can do if they are not as technically skilled or not involved with the project very often. It would be nice to let these people see the current state of a project
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 How can I add recurring cards to Trello? Are you using Trello to organise your life, your business or a particular project? Then you've probably wanted to create cards that repeat on a regular basis. Most calendars support recurring events, so is there an equivalent in Trello? How can you create recurring cards in Trello? It's one of the questions that we get asked a lot in the Trello workshops and that also affects us in our own lives. For example: We invoice clients on a monthly basis, review our Google Analytics stats at month end
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
