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How I Manage my Life with Trello

Ali Spittel on May 04, 2021

How I use Trello to Manage my Life Like many things, productivity systems are deeply personal and subjective. But, I've learned so much ...
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Nico Zerpa (he/him)

I've set up a Trello dashboard last week, but I've completely forgotten about it until I saw this article 🀣

Thank you for explaining your process, Ali! There are some great ideas that I'll sure try to implement.

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Arun Kumar G

I also was using to trello to keep track of my personal things, I am using google keep for the same purpose.
If you have too many things Trello will be good and for simple things I find Google keep is best

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Samuel Suther

Nice to see, how other ones plan their stuff.
Maybe one suggestion, I learned to love: Order your Tasks for the next day at the and of your workday.

This has two advantages:

  1. You can start immediately with your work on the next day
  2. You can prepare your subconscious for the "next-day" tasks

In my case, I do use more than one board, but connect cards, or move them from one to other boards (depends on the need where to have it).

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Adam Parkin

That "affirmations" column is brilliant, I'm totes going to steal that idea.

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Andrew Baisden

Trello is awesome it's the reason why I got so addicted to using Kanban Boards.

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Tyler V. (he/him)

This was quite a timely article - I'm spending the month of May trying to get my life digitally together with Todoist and I like the template task idea πŸ₯°

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Matt Curcio

Hi A,
Andreas Klinger's email system is very cool.
Thanks for the link.

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erica (she/her)

This is such a cool method! My view of Trello as a tool was pretty limited to projects. I've been wanting to utilize it more/better, and this is great inspiration for that!

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Brenda Brown

I use Restyaboard, another free project management software to plan my trips for leisure, for work, and with or without collaborators. A good free alternative to Trello.

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DerPlak ΰ₯

I was looking forward so badly to find something like this, donΒ΄t ever used Trello but need to try your method, thanks for sharing it!