Trello: organize anything‪!‬ 4+

I use this app for organising my business activities as well as my personal projects. I don’t know how I lived without it before. It is great for seeing the big picture & making sure that you don’t loose anything. So much better then working/ communicating via emails.

I do have some observations, however:

1. I loved the earlier versions which were, just like Twitter as opposed to Facebook, very SIMPLE. With so much complexity in everything, I love simplicity. Now I find things too complex, but the app still does what it’s meant to do. I tried using other apps that have a simpler interface but I don’t like them as much.

2. The biggest problem that I started to have recently is that it suddenly cancelled the notifications via emails which to people who don’t use it as often is vital. I have people who are added to some boards for certain task that are not used to checking it regularly as my own team does. Having emails notifications meant that they were alerted when they were needed on Trello. Now, there is no way to get the notifications to them (they don’t have the app), so I’m back to working via emails as opposed to using Trello to communicate. I wish they’d bring the email notifications back (even if optional) 🙏🙏🙏

I’ve gone from a paper bullet journal to this and it’s great. I can share it with the family so we’re much more organised than ever before - it’s both a calendar, financial diary and useful information store.
For my business it’s even more perfect, again the calendar upgrade is great, but it’s also a brain dump for product ideas, to do list and tracker. I also have a list with alerts for social media with a list of national days tracked against planned posts with each blog etc pre written and pinned to the board alongside hashtags so I can schedule myself and keep the personal touch but in an organised way. It’s all in one place and accessible on the go.

I’ve only been using it a week and it’s already this useful, I’m pretty sure it will become even more invaluable!

I’ve only been using Trello for a few weeks now but already I can see the tangible effect it has had on organising my week. Previously I was just using a loooong ToDo list in my Notes on my iPhone but Trello breaks that long list down so you can have a list of To Do and a column next to it containing ‘What’ you’re doing and then a third column listing what you’ve completed. The things is you can make as many columns as you like and call them what you like. But even more facilitating is the ability to move things from one column to the next as you move nearer and nearer to completion - just drag and drop from one column to the next - awesome!