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Why I Moved My Notes to Trello

fischgeek on July 18, 2019

But, Trello is a project management application? True, while it’s mostly used for that, I have found that its flexibility really starts to make sen...
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Andrei Gatej • Edited

I also use Trello for the same purpose as well!

My favorite board is TIL.
Each list a month.
Each card is a day within a month.

I think it’s a great way to keep track of your progress!

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fischgeek

That’s a neat idea; might steal it!

I have a board for keeping track of my movies. Lists of own, want, borrowed out and borrowed in. Labels for the formats and custom fields for who has it too. Butler does an auto sort on it alphabetically as well.

My favorite part though is I wrote a utility that looks at the MovieDB API and adds the movie description and poster to the card!

So fun to see someone else doing something similar with Trello!

Cheers!

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Andrei Gatej

Interesting idea!

I’ve also written a utility that moves medium’s bookmarks to Trello, where each category(javascript, react, go etc..) is a list and each list has its own posts.

Trello is great!

Cheers!🍻

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TC

It’s been a year. I was wondering if you are still in Trello for a notes repository?

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fischgeek

Absolutely! I just circled 'round to this post again to re-read it. Since then, I've created so much more integration and organization. This is definitely here to stay.