Save clicks on your card buttons with this trick

And add pictures to your Trello boards with the Share tool!

Are you losing hours of your day clicking that lightning bolt to get to your card buttons? Keep reading, I’ve got just the fix for you.

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What is the most efficient way to move a photo I have taken into a Trello board? I take a lot of screenshots or I will save photos that I want to use for my social media but I'm wondering what's the easiest way to plug them into my Trello board where I organize everything?

~Dee Beck

Hey Dee! Great question! I too love organizing photos in Trello sometimes (trying to get better about doing this on my trips).

I’m not sure if you’re on Android or iOS but the process should be similar. I’m an iPhone user, and what I do is click the Share icon, then choose Trello, and there are options to create a new card (and add to inbox or a specific board), or add it to an existing card! I typically do the former, but in some cases the latter may make more sense. Here’s what it looks like.

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🛎️ Newbie tips

Term of the week

• Template: a card (or board) with a handy button that clarifies that it’s meant to be copied!

Tip of the week

Templates sound really cool, but really they’re just fancy ways of copying a card or board. You don’t have to make a card (or board!) a template to be able to copy it. But if you do, it will be much clearer to other people using your boards what they’re meant to copy.

You also get some extra options when copying a card, like which pieces you want to copy over:

⚡Automation tips

Loving the minimal cards, but have having to click another button to access your automation card buttons?

Here’s a hack: Change the automation trigger to "when a card is marked complete", and then you can add an action to mark as incomplete, along with whatever other actions you have on your card button… like this:

Now, all you have to do is click that circle on a card to perform an automation.

Have multiple? You could try using “when x label is added”, and you can press L to open the label menu.

NOTE: Just make sure you don't have other automations that you actually do want to happen when a card is done/marked complete, or you will also end up running those as well.

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