The mobile app is great, agreed. The Obsidian app is more or less as fast to load, but perhaps not as simple to navigate. It's just I can't build any kind of permanent repository on Trello, nor note take as simply.
Different workflow. I use one page for "today" where I have a checklist at the top and when items are complete I paste them to the bottom manually. I did try the kanban plugin but tbh it was more work than it was worth.
I link out to my various projects from the "today" page and keep separate notes there. Then I can have some annual and longer term strategy pages elsewhere. In Trello I used to have one board for every year, but as there are only so many boards available on the free tier that wasn't sustainable. Plus scrolling along wide boards didn't work well for me on mobile.
I use the sliding panes plugin, the natural language dates and the day planner, but try to keep it slimmed down. I sync with Syncthing to phone. Quasi-instant.
I still have to fight the cruft building up, if I take my eye off the structure for a few days or a week it can get quite messy. But that's on me. I can't imagine a system that would automate correct placement of notes as a running stream I enter on one page. But now that I say it... it sounds like a killer SaaS project. I don't think it's one for me, but I'd definitely grab a plugin that did that. Even if I had to use tags at the end of the note to manually designate where it should go.
yeah, trello always seemed best for organizing an ongoing new development effort and less great for understanding history (and preventing it from repeating) as well as finding old context and bug tracking.
I'll grab the markdown folder from t2md and put it in my vault. I think that's it! On me to make any links required for the graph but I think I'll just keep it as a reference.
I have a use in mind that this would probably work really well for, but I would need to be able to tell it to backup only a single card. maybe it's time for me to learn some C#!
Thanks! If you're after a single card's full details you can pull it out of the json that this downloads, or grab just the card from the api as well. A single card would be pretty fast so you could user a higher level scripting language too.
Kudos to Trello as well though - their json export is really really good. It has everything required in it to recreate the board. Hopefully they don't deprecate that part of it.
Related -- I've been using this tool [0] for years, to back up my trello boards daily. Only been one brief hiccup, due to a change of API, IIRC, about a year ago, that was resolved within a few days.
I don't have a workflow for utilising the resultant dumps, but that's an unlikely edge case - it's just been important for me, given the occasional horror stories about being locked out of proprietary services, to actually have the content.
Trello is great, and this kind of tools help the ecosystem...shame that when Trello got acquired by Atlassian, the only new improvement to the product was the fact they've acquired Butler for automations (really amazing powerup tool if you ask me), but other than that, Atlassian didn't turn Trello into a competitor to what Airtable and Notion are today, kinda sad - I guess they just wanna keep it running as is?
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 48.8 ms ] threadMoved to Obsidian this year and can pull in my old Trello boards now.
Thanks for sharing.
Much appreciated!
I link out to my various projects from the "today" page and keep separate notes there. Then I can have some annual and longer term strategy pages elsewhere. In Trello I used to have one board for every year, but as there are only so many boards available on the free tier that wasn't sustainable. Plus scrolling along wide boards didn't work well for me on mobile.
I use the sliding panes plugin, the natural language dates and the day planner, but try to keep it slimmed down. I sync with Syncthing to phone. Quasi-instant.
I still have to fight the cruft building up, if I take my eye off the structure for a few days or a week it can get quite messy. But that's on me. I can't imagine a system that would automate correct placement of notes as a running stream I enter on one page. But now that I say it... it sounds like a killer SaaS project. I don't think it's one for me, but I'd definitely grab a plugin that did that. Even if I had to use tags at the end of the note to manually designate where it should go.
I have a use in mind that this would probably work really well for, but I would need to be able to tell it to backup only a single card. maybe it's time for me to learn some C#!
It's probably one of the best languages around, really. The language and ecosystem has evolved a bunch.
I don't have a workflow for utilising the resultant dumps, but that's an unlikely edge case - it's just been important for me, given the occasional horror stories about being locked out of proprietary services, to actually have the content.
[0] https://github.com/mattab/trello-backup