One of the most intuitive kanban apps you'll find, Trello allows you to fully customize the boards you create.
It's a solid tool for managing work and workflows; however, it is not a project management tool as many people think.
Trello is a web-based project management solution originally created by Fog Creek Software in 2011.
She formed her own company in 2014 and has since been sold to Atlassian.
Trello provides tools for defining projects and their requirements, and includes a digital dashboard where you can create, organize, and prioritize actions.
The employee card system allows team members to interact and collaborate with each other on projects – users can add comments, links, files and photos to project cards.
Trello Settings
Trello makes setup a very simple process that only takes a few minutes.
You don't need to enter a mountain of information to get started – you just need your name, email, password and you're good to go.
Users are immediately brought to their own dashboard. You will be able to work on a previously untitled board or create a new one.
You can change your name, initials, biography, avatar, password, email and language settings via your initials in the upper right corner of the screen.
You can also change your avatar from initials to a photo of your choice.
You can also edit your notification settings here, and colorblind users can enable 'Colorblind Friendly Mode'.
Users can access information related to keyboard shortcuts on the upper right side of the screen.
Trello is available on the website or in a dedicated app for macOS and Windows users.
App and system pricing
Trello has reduced the number of plan types it offers to three, getting rid of its former Gold option.
You can now sign up for a free, business or business class account. Trello is as the name suggests: free.
With this account type, you can make as many personal boards, cards, and lists as you like, although you are limited to no more than 10 team boards (i.e. collaborative).
File attachments cannot exceed 10MB in size and you cannot integrate your account with other apps.
More importantly, you only get one power-up per board.
The power-up concept is important to understand what makes the free account so different from the paid accounts.
Power-ups are a la carte features that you add to your Trello boards.
With most business software, you choose a service tier based on the feature set offered at each tier.
For example, you might get features A and B with the first service tier, but A through D with the second tier, and so on.
Trello is different. With Trello, you customize which features (or power-ups) you want for each board.
And the number of features you can add varies depending on the account type you choose.
Some examples of power-ups are a calendar view, time tracking, and custom fields.
If you want to have all three of these features on one board, you can't do that with Trello Free because you only get one power-up per board.
Key features of Trello
Your team can create dashboards from the main dashboard or the Dashboards tab, and each dashboard can be named after the project.
You can then add 'To Do', 'To Do' and 'Done' tasks. They can be scheduled for certain dates and times.
Trello defaults to a blue background. This can be customized on the right side of the Plates screen. You can change to other colors or use an image if you prefer.
Cards can be filtered with color labels and set to certain times, for example 'Deadline is next week'.
You can also set privacy filters to public, private, or team only.
Trello has mobile apps for Android and iOS. There's also a Trello app for Slack.
The apps basically have the same functionality as the web interface. This makes it easy for you to switch from desktop to mobile app.
Also of note is the fact that Trello integrates with a variety of third-party apps.
These include Slack, Google Drive, Jira, HourStack, Gmail, Placker, Box and Gantify, among others.
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