Scheduling Trello Comments, Slack + Trello, and Follow My Content Calendar!

I figured out how to schedule comments in Trello and I'm STOKED. 🎉

Trello Tip

Trello has a Slack Power-Up that lets you connect your Trello boards with your Slack workspace. This is a great way to send notifications about cards to a specific channel. Super helpful is you’re working with some folks who aren’t as used to Trello yet and need some reminders. It will post messages in your Slack channel, like this!

You can set what types of activities trigger these notifications and it will do it all the time, or you can use the card button to send a specific type of notification.

Trellowing the Web

• [📚 eBook ] 7 Habits of High Effective Trello Users (Orah Apps)

• [ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 discussion] What Trello Plan Do You Need? (Atlassian Community)

• [📚 article] How To Add Stickers to Trello (SwipeTips)

• [👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 discussion] How to Use Trello Instead of a Facebook Group/Forum (Atlassian Community)

• [👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 discussion] How to Add a “Set Due Tomorrow” and “Set Due in A Week” Button To Your Cards (Atlassian Community)

• [📚 article] Team ‘22 Recap (The Jira Guy) (Admittedly not a lot of Trello stuff here, but if you’re into other Atlassian tools, or just wondered what they discussed at their major user conference last week, this is a solid recap!)

• [🎥 video] Top 5 Trello Power-Ups You Need in 2022 (Rewind)

• [📚 article] How to Master Remote Work (Trello blog)

Joiner’s Journey

Scheduling Comments in Trello with PixieBrix and Zapier

I’m super excited about this one. I couldn’t fall asleep the other night because I was like “I wonder if there’s a way to schedule comments in Trello”. You know, like how you can schedule Slack messages and emails these days, what if you could do that with Trello comments so you didn’t have to ping your teammates at those weird hours of the night when you feel inspired to get work done? 😊 (Just me?)

Anyways, it’s for sure do-able and it requires PixieBrix and Zapier, but since I’ve figured it out for you already, it’s very easy to set up. Watch this video to see how to do it, and you can copy my extensions here. NOTE: PixieBrix is free, but I do think this requires a paid version of Zapier since we’re using a zap with multiple steps. If you’re not already using Zapier, it’s probably not worth $29/mo for this functionality, but if you are already using Zapier, definitely a good reason to consider an upgrade!

Learn More About Trello!

One more quick note - if you want more Trello in your life, I’ll be speaking at 3(!) events over the next two weeks! Would love to see you all there!

• Apr 20th, 10:30am CST/11:30pm EST: How Non-Profits Can Benefit from Atlassian

• Apr 20th, 11:30am CST/12:30pm EST: Favorite Trello Rules (in Spanish!)

• Apr 28th, 4pm CST/5pm EST: Team 22' Recap and Trello in the Enterprise

Brittany’s Bets

Goosly

If you’re struggling to keep track of when I’m doing a live stream, when I’ve got a new newsletter coming, when I’m giving a talk… don’t worry—I’m struggling too 😂. I just started using Goosly, which is a public roadmap tool, so you can follow along too!

It looks like this:

Before you ask, yes I totally could put this in a Trello board, but I actually kind liked being able to show the calendar view out of the box with no clicks needed from the viewer (honestly, can’t really do that with Trello on a public board… at least not that I know of!)

Here’s how it works.

• Define groups (notice I have “Newsletter”, “Speaking”, “Livestream”, etc.)

• Add “activity” (in my case, events)

• You can use markdown to style each activity to give details.

Want to see my board? Head over here. Soon you’ll be able to click “subscribe” and be notified when there’s a new event. (Speaking of which… that reminds me I’m due for a live stream soon… anybody got any requests of what I should talk about??)

👋 See you next week!