Trello is one of the best, free project management systems. And it scales pretty well. You can use it to organize your personal life, wedding parties, run your entire team (like we do here at Guiding Tech) and more. But if you use Trello a lot, you know that getting information into Trello can be a chore. Trello doesn’t have a desktop app so most of us just use it in Chrome.
But Trello’s iOS and Android apps are pretty good. Today we’re going to talk about the fastest ways to create Trello cards when you suddenly have a new idea or when you need to submit a web page you’re currently browsing as a card in Trello. Read on to learn more.
1. Set up email settings for all important boards
Each Trello board has a unique email address. It’s a complicated string of text, but it’s a good idea to note down the email addresses for all of your most important or used Trello boards. They’re useful for other things than just manually emailing cards to boards. They will be the backbone for automation tools like IFTTT etc which we will cover below.
Navigate to the table in question, click Menu in the upper right corner and select Email-to-board settings. In the pop-up window, you’ll see the default email address and column where the new card will appear and the location. This setting will depend on you and the board, but pay attention here.
Once you have the email address set up, add it to your address book with the details for the specific table. Now, when you get an email that you want to turn into a task, just forward it to the Trello email address and you’re done.
2. Directly submit a web page to Trello Board
Trello has a handy bookmarklet that you can use in any browser where you’re signed in to Trello. Just visit this link, drag Send to Trello link to your bookmarks bar.
Now, when you’re on a web page that you want to submit to a Trello board, just click on the bookmarklet and a popup listing all your boards will show up. Once you’ve selected a board, you’ll see all the listings in that table. Next time you try this, the last list will show up as default, but you are free to choose a different one.
3. iOS and Android Widgets
If you have the Trello app installed on your iPhone or Android device, check out the utilities to quickly create cards. In Android, you can choose from 3 widgets, two of them to quickly generate cards and one to see all the cards assigned to you.
In iOS, the Notification Center widget gives you shortcuts to create a new card from the clipboard or by taking a new photo. You also have access to the three most recent panels as shortcuts.
4. IFTTT Recipes
If you’ve already created emails for your most used Trello boards, this is where they will come in handy. IFTTT has many recipes for sending content to Trello, and most of them depend on that email address.
You can do cool things like submit a web page to Trello when you star an article in Feedly or when you favorite a tweet on Twitter. You can also automatically send any list item added to a specific list in the iOS reminders app directly to Trello. All Trello related IFTTT recipes are here.
5. Take notes using IFTTT
Do Note by IFTTT leverages the power of web automation and puts a piece of it in your hands. Instead of triggering an action when something else happens, with Do Note, you’re the one triggering it.
Download Do Note iOS or Android app, set up Create Trello cards recipe by providing the appropriate email address for the table and you’re good to go. Now all you have to do is open the Do Note app, swipe over this particular recipe type (one of 3), and hit the big submit button.
6. Trello iOS Extensions and Android Sharing Integration
If you’re using iOS 8 and have the Trello app, you can quickly send a web page from any compatible browser or app directly to Trello. You will have options to select the table and also the list.
On Android, there is also native share sheet integration. Just choose Share -> Trello and the sitelink with the title added will open in the Trello app. From here, you can select tables and lists and then tap the checkmark button to return to the browser.
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