I have how many Trello cards?
Discover the dashcard power-up that provides powerful stats about your Trello board, and more in this week's newsletter!
First of all want to give a SUPER warm welcome to the new subscribers that just joined from learning about this newsletter via my Trello marathon last week.
I was live for 12 hours talking about Trello with all sorts of folks and we raised over $1,600 for Extra Life! I had a blast and call me crazy, but I definitely plan to do it again. If you missed it and want to watch the recording or scroll back through segments, head over here.
In This Edition
Logging automated actions in Trello
Notifications for advanced checklist items
Moving a card that’s been in a list for a period of time
Having live stats about your cards inside your Trello board
Let’s dive in!
🌮 Dear Taco
This is a section of the newsletter where readers can submit their Trello questions, and I, ahem, Taco will answer them!
Hi Brittany,
Loving the newsletters!
We have made a few simple Zapier zaps to fire off automated emails when cards are added to different columns. We would like to keep a record in the Trello Card of what emails have been fired off. We are thinking of having a label applied after the Zap has fired off. Is this even possible?
Thanks
Sergio Afonso
Absolute Translations in LondonDear Sergio,
Great question and we chatted about this over a call, but I wanted to share the answer with the broader audience here in case they had the same question!
My personal favorite way of keeping records in Trello is by adding a comment to the card. It’s like a little log record that you can scroll through and find details about when it was triggered and anything else you add to it!
This is also very easy to add to automation, whether you’re doing it inside of Trello, or through Zapier. Both apps and sections have actions for this and you can grab variables (ie, things about the card it’s happening with, from previous steps!)
In Trello (under the “Content” section of rules)
In Zapier
You could also add a label as well - both of these tools have actions supporting that!
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🗞 New(s) And Upcoming
Did you see that you can now get notifications for advanced checklist items?
Watch the recording from Trello Enterprise Q&A. (Event happened on Dec 13th, but they said it would be recorded, so you should be able to head over here and get the link!)
🛟 How To and FAQs
⚡️ Featured Power-Up
Ever need to get a quick count of how many cards you have in certain lists, labels, members or due dates? Maybe you don’t have Trello Premium that gives you dashboard view. Or maybe you do have that but you want to be even more customized with your stats, and reference cards on more than just one board.
Dashcards has just entered the cat.
Dashcards is a FREE power-up built by the folks at Trello that aggregates count of Trello cards against your specific criteria, and then creates a card that updates live and shows that count.
Here’s the filtering options you have.
You can filter by any board, or specific ones… same with lists, assignees, due dates, labels, and more. You can also change the background to style it however you’d like.
Yes, I have 2,561 Trello cards right across all my boards. Did I mention that I love Trello? 😂
Once you apply your filters, you can save your dashcard and it creates a beautiful card like this. You can drag it to any list you like. (I prefer to keep a list called stats, that shows all my dashcards in one list but you can put them anywhere you like.)
So go ahead and take it for a spin! Like I said, it’s free, so you have no reason to not give it a try! If you have any questions, submit a question to Taco.
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