Many people store numbers or points on their Trello cards. Uses vary, from Scrum story points to costs in a budget planner. Wouldn’t it be great if you could sum up all these values and show the list total at the top of the Trello list instead? It would mean you don’t need to keep […]
Lacerate Your Brain With Deep Work
Join Bernie’s ‘Sunday’ Email Community Here First thank you for the feedback on this weekly newsletter, as much as I hate email I secretly look forward to hearing what you are up to that you want to share it. #Blush I urge you to hit leave a comment and let me know what your goals […]
Rescue Time, takes a cigarette
I have really got into tracking my time in the last few months. It is out of frustration rather than amazingness needing to hand in time sheets. I don’t like trading time for money, it is dumb in this day and age and even dumber if you are a freelancer or indie worker, but that […]
Time tracking in Trello using Toggl
Time tracking used to mean complicated spreadsheets and boring time-sheets that you were forced to fill in every Friday afternoon. In recent years this industry has seen a massive online resurgence. The time tracking app Toggl consistently ranks as one of the most popular tools and we decided to take a deeper look at how it […]
Which Trello Power-Up is right for you?
Trello recently announced a massive change to their power-ups functionality. Trello Power-Ups are used to turn features like the calendar or third-party app integration on and off. The basic power-ups used to be free. However, you will now be forced to choose just one power-up for your free Trello boards. To help you make that […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.”
I’m Living On Process Street
Today? Already? Bloody hell this is tricky. But I have discovered something so groundbreaking it is going to be the making of my blogging career. I can share it right here, right now before anyone else in the World finds out – think of it as your exclusive reader first. Here it is: Having a […]
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 […]
Why You Should Listen To Me About Productivity (Even Though I Am Crap At It)
Now is exactly the right time to post this blog. Which I thought was not the right time because there is a silly little part of me that wants to make you think I know what I am doing. Nil’s and I are working on a productivity e-book and the best insight into the e-book […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to use the Trello Calendar to meet your deadlines
How to use the Trello Calendar to meet your deadlines Introduction 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 integrate with your appointments and other calendars? Let me show you how in […]
