{"id":1508,"date":"2013-05-26T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T12:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/new\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2014-10-26T15:01:42","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T15:01:42","slug":"trello-a-swiss-army-knife-for-tasks-prioritizing-and-project-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcafeteria.com\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Trello: A Swiss Army Knife For Tasks, Prioritizing And Project Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post was originally published on the LSC Technology Blog<\/a> in May of 2013. Note that “LSC” is Legal services Corporation, my current employer.<\/p>\n

\"\"One of the great services available to the legal aid tech community (lstech) is\u00a0LSNTAP’s series of webinars on tech tools<\/a>. \u00a0I’ve somehow managed to miss every one of these\u00a0webinars<\/a>, but I’m a big fan of sharing the tools and strategies that allow us to more effectively get things done. In that spirit, I wanted to talk about my new favorite free online tool,\u00a0Trello<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Trello is an online\u00a0Kanban board<\/a>. \u00a0If you’re unfamiliar with that term, you are still likely familiar with the concept: most TV cop shows have a board in the squad room with columns for new, open and closed cases. \u00a0Kanban is the name for these To Do\/Doing\/Done boards, and they are a powerful, visual tool for keeping track of projects.<\/p>\n

You don’t need Trello — you can do it with a whiteboard and a marker. \u00a0But Trello’s online version can become very useful very fast. \u00a0Like the best apps, the basic functionality is readily usable, but \u00a0advanced functionality lurks under the hood. \u00a0With no training, you can create a todo list that monitors what’s coming up, what you’re working on and what you’ve finished. \u00a0Explore a little bit, and you learn that each task can have a description, a due date, a file attached to it, it’s own task list and one or more people assigned to it. Because Trello is just as good as a one-person productivity tool as it is as a team coordination tool.<\/p>\n

I can report that the IT team at LSC has dived into it. \u00a0Here are a few of the things we’re using it for:<\/p>\n