Find all your Trello cards in one place

Plus, a new solution to last week's questions about using OR in filters, an upcoming Trello event to level up your automation skills, and an extension for improving card descriptions

Happy Thursday before a long weekend (in the US). It’s the perfect day for scrolling newsletters and thinking about how productive we’ll be when we get back, right? 😃

Here’s what’s on deck for you this week:

🌮 Follow up - using filters with OR logic (via Placker!)
🗞️ Taco Saturday on Sep 7th!
🛎️ View all your cards in one place
💪 Write better card descriptions
⚡ [PREMIUM] Track a card’s first list

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Okay, now back to the show!

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🌮 Dear Taco

This is a section where readers can submit their Trello questions, and each week I’ll pick one and answer it! It’s like “Dear Abby” but make it trello. Have a question you want to submit? Share it here.

RE: 
Dear Taco,

I love the Dashcards Power-Up. I use them in all my boards. The frustrating part is that when I am adding more than 1 filter there's not an OR option. This forces me to create multiple dashcards when one could suffice. Any suggestions?

Hey Forrest, I’m following up with a new and improved answer to your question from last week!

If you want to create an OR on your Dashcards, I don’t exactly have a Dashcards workaround, but it seems like this is possible with Placker’s reports feature.

When you create a report, you can make a card (notice that Cards count in the middle of the screenshot), and it will report the number of cards that meet a criteria.

Then you can use the report filter to set multiple items, like due dates or assignees, and choose Loose match which will effectively OR those filters.

I hope this helps, and if you’re interested in using Placker, reply back and let me know—they’ve offered special deals to my subscribers in the past!

Want to submit your question? Maybe it’ll be featured next week!

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🗞 New(s) and Links

It’s Taco Saturday next week!
Join me for a virtual event on Sep 7th at 10 am ET with the Nairobi Atlassian Community Events chapter as I lead a workshop about Trello Automation and help folks set up their own custom automation.
Save your spot

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🛎️ Trello Tip of the Week

If you operate in multiple boards, keeping up with all your cards can get out of hand fast if you don’t know about these Trello features:

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💪 Featured Power-Up

Writing words is… hard. Especially when it comes to writing issue descriptions.

This Chrome Extension (Skribr) uses AI to take your existing card descriptions and re-writes them.

While this is most useful for development teams who need to create complete user stories in their issues, the rest of us could often use help clarifying what exactly we need to do.

I am more likely to take immediate action on a task with clear action items and next steps. How about you?

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