Trello: Daily Task Tracker

We use Trello at work and it’s really, really good for what we need it to do. You should customize it a ton to work best for you, and there’s a lot of options and ways to do that. Card automation, date reminders, and at a glance card labeling are some of the most useful tools we use on a day to day basis. The reason for 4/5 stars is because I use the desktop version and the app version of Trello- and the app lags behind the desktop, literally and figuratively. Sometimes I’ll need to close and reopen the app once or twice before lists update with moved cards and comments. One this that isn’t inherently the fault of devs but just the fault of phones, is that the UI isn’t always ideal- one of the best things about Trello’s boards is being able to see things all lined up next to each other in your different columns, but on mobile you can really only see one column at a time. Overall I like Trello a lot and the app a little bit less. One of my recent problems, though, is the color changes. I quite dislike them, and for a while you could choose between the only and new colors, but I’ve lost the ability to choose on desktop, and I think the next update implements the same on mobile. I’ve gotten used to the shorthand of certain colors being attached to certain labels, and now there’s not really good equivalence to even change them back to. I understand wanting an updated look, but I do wish there was an option to keep the old style. The customization is one of the top points of Trello, and not only is our old customized options being overwritten, there’s not a good way to get back it. And on a personal note, I think the new theme is an eyesore. The color pallet for the labels does not work, and there seems to be a shade change to the base card color, which is off putting and also doesn’t work with the other tones in the theme.

Trello has run my life for more than 5 years. The tool is so flexible and simple at the same time, the main limitation is your imagination. Recently the AI has started to make itself more obvious and helpful to my workflows. I’m enjoying an app that has been a core part of my life mainly in the past on web/desktop, now across web, phone and tablet even more than I have ever enjoyed it before. I have used similar and arguably more power tools like AirTable extensively. I might find my way back to that tool for some use cases, maybe such as programming integrations... but Trello is my home for what to do next, quarterly and yearly planning, goals, ideating, basic project management and recently it has sort of evolved into a personal diary of the day gone past. If I could ask one thing of the Trello team, it would be to have the power to turn off/toggle features/UI elements per board. Everything from labels, to activity, due date and members. This would make the tool comparable to airtable where you can customize the noise/size of each card to minimize unnecessary visual data overload per the specific task/data set you are utilizing the tool for. Thanks Trello Team. 💕💕 Trello so much, I even bought the yearly gold subscription even though I don’t need it.

Good overall but there a few seemingly minor-to-add things that would be significant quality of life improvements. These are what’s missing that I think wouldn’t be hard to add that would be big improvements: ability to sort by due date on the app (this one is hugely irritating since this feature is available on the browser version), ability to select a default auto sorting (like to always have it sorted by due date instead of having to resort it every time after adding new cards), ability to set the times that reminders are sent (as it is it’s just auto set to send a reminder 24 hours before the due date set, and that’s not useful for a lot of things that I need reminders for in school). It would be nice if there was a setting that marked cards as completed in the due date box when they are moved to my “Done” column area, instead of needing to manually do it. It would also be nice if the icon for the checklist on the collapsed cards wasn’t checked off unless all the items on the checklist are checked off; it’s counterintuitive for the box to be shown checked off when I don’t have anything checked off on the checklist. Would be easier to manage what’s done and what’s not visually if the box were not checked until the checklist is completed. I still have to supplement this app with other reminder apps and google calendar and tasks because of the lack of ability to set reminders at specific times/days.