Moving Boards with Trello

Plus some fun with board views!

👋 Hello today from Idaho! 🥔 I’ve got a lot of exploring im planning this weekend, and I’m going to see Toy Story 5 tomorrow!

Now, let’s talk Trello!

💡 Inspiration and ideas

I featured this a long time ago but I know we’ve got a lot of new subscribers and it’s moving season for a lot of folks so wanted to share my Moving Board Template!

• Custom board backgrounds, brought to me by ChatGPT 😂

  • Although I use Claude for just about everything ChatGPT still does a better job of creating images. I like to describe my Trello board and ask it to create a background for me!

    

• Here’s what the board looks like:

• Each list is a type of project or activity associated with moving. I think the worst part of moving is that it’s not one big project… it’s like a hundred projects. I’m rending out my condo, so that involves some house projects and prepping the condo, making an LLC, getting rid of SO MANY THINGS, etc. Not to mention figuring out a campground to be at, moving our addresses over, and figuring out how to orchestrate everything being where it needs to be when it needs to be there since we’re moving 17 hours away!

  • Embedded Google sheet with expenses for condo rentals, this was useful in helping me determine if I should rent or sell, and i was able to plug in numbers to my Google Sheet without ever leaving my Trello board. (But I realized I could also use Colorful Budgets Power-Up for tracking expenses if I wanted to do that.)

• While I primarily am organizing myself in this board, there are some other boards for ancillary activities that I didn’t want to clutter in here. I’ll explain more about this “All Our Things” board below.

• The first list is a reference list because how much time do we all spend searching for the new address, our storage, our movers, and everything else!?

• I’ve also been really loving collapsed lists for when sections aren’t relevant to help me feel less overwhelmed with all that’s on my plate. One thing at a time. 😮‍💨

So this is a peek into how it looks and works and my REAL boards, but I wanted to make something that you all could actually copy and use, so I re-created the planning board with custom tasks in each list so you can copy the board and it’s a true template rather than just a series of lists with titles and you still have to generate the cards.

This took me a bit of time to do and is one of my templates that I’m most proud of you, so if you’d like a copy of it, it’s available for my premium subscribers!

Because I really want everyone to get to try it, I’m offering a week free trial for anyone who wants to join and test it out. So yes I’m offering it for premium subs, but if you’re not one, you can be one for free for a week. Once you sign up, you can head to this post and get the template!

🛎️ Newbie tips

Term

• Views: different ways to organize your cards in Trello. The standard version is a Board with Lists. But you can choose from other options like Calendar, Timeline, Table, and Map!

Tip

• If you want to view your tasks organized by date, Calendar View is one of the most popular. Although board views are a Trello premium feature, you can add the FREE Calendar Power-Up to access this view without a premium plan! Watch this video to learn more about Trello board views:

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Thanks for reading!! I’ll see ya next week 👋