Marrying Trello and GitHub, plus featured Power-Ups coming soon!
Hope your week is going great! I was meeting with a coworker yesterday and referenced “October 10th” as “over a month ago”…. so mentally I’m apparently in November in case anyone was wondering.
Good thing I’ve got Trello to keep me on track.
Trello Tip of the Week
Trying to find cards that are yours AND have a certain label? By default, the Trello filter will match any cards that are yours OR have the label, but select “ANY” at the bottom of the filter options and change it to “Exact” to see cards that fit both criteria.
Find exactly the cards you want and need!
New(s) and Upcoming in Trello
Check out the new view switcher and table view
New charts and improvements to the data table added to Blue Cat Reports!
Crmble just introduced a brand new dashboard!
Trello How To And FAQ
How an accounting firm uses Trello to manage over 100 clients (Blue Cat Blog)
How to enable automation rules across multiple boards (Atlassian Community)
How to limit guest access on boards (Atlassian Community)
Setting “delay until” in Trello automation (Atlassian Community)
Assing the person who triggered an action to a card (Atlassian Community)
Use Case Idea
What if your GitHub issues had due dates and reminders? I was hoping for something like that, as this month is my first Hacktoberfest as a maintainer (which means I’ve got a repo of code and issues and lovely folks helping me contribute to it… and a lot on my plate).
I created a Trello board that’s hooked up to my GitHub repo with Unito. It does a couple of helpful things that GitHub can’t do.
1. When a new issue is created in GitHub, it’s added to my first list
2. When someone is assigned to an issue, it moves to the “assigned” list and sets a due date for three days from now.
3. When a card in that list is due, it’s moved into a “reminder” list.
I haven’t really automated the last bit where I then go check on the issues that are in the “reminder” list and make sure the contributor hasn’t ghosted me and see if they need any help.
So while GitHub is great for code, I find it kinda terrible for task management (although I will admit GitHub Projects is improving…) and this is a nice way to combine the tool that works with the code, with the tool that lets you manage the tasks.
Using Trello and GitHub in other ways? I’d love to know!! Reply and tell me about it!
Feedback
In case you’re wondering what I do with the feedback from the weekly polls, I do something about it and try to incorporate it into future iterations of the newsletter! Specifically from last week’s poll - 80% of you said you either use power-ups or want to, so I’m going to be introducing a new feature section that highlights a new power-up.
For now, I’m going to do this once a month, but we’ll probably get to a point where I do this weekly. (Ya girl has to make it through Hacktoberfest before committing to anything else 😂)
But to get started, I want to know what power-ups you’re most interested in learning more about. So if head over here and tell me about a Power-Up you’d like me to review and help you learn more about OR a specific need you have that you’re hoping there’s a Power-Up for.