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How to create customized recurring cards, and use Trello to handle ADHD "excited overwhelm"
Happy Thursday my Trello Teammates! What cards are your Trello boards today that you’re trying to knock off to get to your weekend? Reply back and let me know… I’d love to help if I can!
Trello Tip of the Week
Create customized recurring cards WITHOUT a power-up.
You can use Calendar automation to set a rule that occurs with a specific frequency, such as “every day” or “every weekday”, and you can use Butler Variables to include things like the current day on the card.
You can even customize the due date on those cards to be due at a specific time (like the end of the day, or one week from now), and you can add a template checklist from another card.
Pro tip: You can also specify what list you want the card to appear in, and that also works with variables, so for instance, if you have a list for each day of the week, you could set the list name to `{weekdayname}` and every day it would create the card in the list with the same name of the weekday.
New(s) And Upcoming in Trello
New from Blue Cat - Guide to All the Free Power-Ups in Trello!
Outlook is getting rid of Trello add-in - but here are alternatives!
Have you check out Advanced Card Covers from the Tiny Power Ups Club?
Trello How To & FAQ
Setting up dependencies and relationships between cards (Atlassian Community)
View a summary of a user’s activity on Trello (r/Trello)
Embed images in comments (r/Trello)
How to set up hourly reminders (r/Trello)
Featured Trello Power-Up
As promised, we’ve got a shiny new section here in the newsletter! It’s the Featured Power-Up section! I’ll show you a new power-up you might not have heard of before, or maybe you have and I’ll show you more ways to use it!
I’ll be extremely clear when this is a sponsored post, and even in those cases, I will only share it if it’s something that feels genuinely useful.
Today we’re starting off with a very special Power-Up that recently surpassed 100,000 boards. (Which is just shy of the number of Trello boards I’ve actually created…. jk.)
It’s an AMAZING power-up that let’s you make FIELDS for your Trello cards. Any guesses? Yeah that’s right. I’m talking about the Amazing Fields Power-Up!
Don’t get me wrong - Trello’s native custom fields are pretty awesome, but here’s what makes these fields amazing.
Customize Where Your Card Is Shown
Hate seeing the custom fields when the card is closed? AF lets you determine what is shown on the front of the card, and you can toggle it to be hidden on new cards until you want it. You can also display previous versions of the card.
Finally… Make a Long Text Field!
I think a big weakness of Trello’s custom fields is that they don’t have a textarea/multiline text field yet and sometimes you just need something more than a few characters. AF lets you create a multiline field and you can set it to the full width of the card!
Control Who Sees What
For the most part, your Trello board is like a special house that when you invite people in, they can go into every room and see everything. With AF, you can limit who can see custom fields, and who can edit them. For instance, maybe you only want admins to be able to edit fields, but everyone to view. Or perhaps you only want admins to be able to view the content. You can control those settings with Amazing Fields.
Okay, I could keep going but this would be a tutorial and not a quick feature, so stop reading and go check it out for yourself! It’s free to get started, only some features require a paid plan so there’s plenty for you to go try it out for yourself and see if it works for you.
Trello Use Case Idea
I was recently diagnosed with ADHD and I don’t know about you but I get “excited overwhelm” quite a bit. If you’ve never experienced it, it’s like feeling overwhelmed, except instead of the anxiety and dread, you’re more excited because they’re all things that you’re looking forward to and interested in and very excited about!
The problem is, I can’t do everything all at once. So I learn about a new tool or product I want to try out and I’m so hyped, but can’t do it right away. So what do I do? I can save it to Trello of course! And I already do that… but then I forget to go look at them, OR I just get busy and don’t actually feel as excited when I’m looking at them.
What does Trello have to do with this? Well, I spun up a PixieBrix extension that opens a prompt asking me why I’m excited about a product, and then creates a card in Trello with the title that includes WHY I’m excited and a link to that product. So now when I actually comb through my list of things, it will re-instill that excitement! (At least that’s the goal… I’ll try this out for a few weeks and let you know.)
Btw, any other fellow ADHDers here who would be more interested in learning about how to use Trello to manage your ADHD? Just click this link to cast a vote for yes. If I get enough votes, then I’ll make some dedicated content just about Trello and my journey with ADHD!
👋 That’s all for this week folks!!