Special Edition: Trello-con Recap
I went to Atlassian's Team conference last week. Whether you went or not, here's what you need to know!
Happy Thursday friends!
I went to Atlassian’s TEAM conference last week, which is their annual user conference. If you don’t know who Atlassian is, they bought Trello in 2017. While they have a whole suite of other products they’re more known for, like Confluence and Jira, it’s still a special time of the year for me to connect with the Trello product and marketing teams and other Trello enthusiasts!
So this week is a bit of a deviation from our regularly scheduled format so we can recap everything.
Keep scrolling and by the end of this post, you’ll feel like you were there all week! Minus the jet lag, delayed flight stranding you in Dallas for the night, and the slight loss of voice.
🤔 What you need to know
Unfortunately, Trello is the little brother of the Atlassian world, so it tends to get the least announcements at attention at Team. But, I did get to spend a lot of time with the Trello product folks at their booth and learn a little more about what they’re thinking for the future of Trello!
Here’s a sneak peak:
AI in Trello - would you find a world useful where AI could help you format cards that you email to your board? Imagine forwarding a card to your board and rather than a dump of the content in the description, Trello is smart enough to figure out if there’s a due date, or specific tasks associated with the email. 🤖
Inbox list - every card has a board and a list, but what if it didn’t? What if items could go to an inbox that you could then sort to the right board/list later? Of course right now, I kinda do this with my Trello Brain Inbox process, but this would be a much simpler way to handle incoming tasks to sort later.
Weekly view - imagine being able to see your schedule for a day with your cards in Trello (kinda like what I do in Akiflow!) at the moment, you can sorta use the workspace calendar view to do this, but it only shows you task by day, not tasks stacked throughout the day. I got see some previews of how this could look in trello to help you manage your tasks and your calendar in one place!
Check out this Trello board that was shared at the booth during Team 24 for a visual recap!
Non-Trello keynote updates
Jira Work Management and Jira Software combine to become just JIRA
Jira will have AI to breakdown work into smaller tasks (there’s a hope for Trello to eventually do something like this too, but it was not announced)
Confluence will have AI brainstorming to take your whiteboard and group things together and create action items
Unified search was announced so you can have semantic search to find what you need across all your Atlassian tools
Atlassian Rovo launches to have a chatbot for interacting with your Atlassian data and asking questions like, who is on project Burberry? (after talking with the Trello team, this is also something they too would like to see in Trello eventually - where you can interact with your data across boards with AI. But it’s definitely not coming tomorrow)
All on-demand learning content is now free in the Atlassian University!
✅ What you need to DO
Sign up for a personal productivity feedback session with the trello team.
This is the only way you’ll be able to see prototypes of what they’re thinking (I can’t share them unfortunately 😭), AND it’s the best way for you to give feedback on what you’d like to see more and less of in Trello.
Take the Getting Started with Trello learning path and finish with the Trello Fundamentals Assessment. It’s free!
Want more? Try the Becoming an effective Trello admin learning path!
Catch up on the video replays from Team events!
Check out my list of Power-Ups to Supercharge your board
Upgrade to a premium subscription of How I Trello, so you get the best Trello tips, tricks, and news in real time! (You’ll get to experience team vicariously through me next year! Ask my premium subs—it’s awesome.)
Next up
Before I let you go, I’ve got something totally free you're probably going to want to sign up for.
I’m leading an Atlassian live learning event next week, showing folks how to get started with Trello for personal productivity. Although you’re already an expert, you may still want to join for the chance to ask some questions, AND you should definitely invite your colleagues and friends you’re trying to get hooked on Trello.