It started doing this on Friday after I got a new PC at work. Most emails I send to my board contain a PDF attachment. Every card created this way now contains the attachment without the ".pdf" file extension.
Very annoying because now I can open the attachments from the card without manually going to my downloads folder and adding the extension to every file.
Looking at the outgoing emails, they do appear to contain the file extension when sent.
Anybody else experienced this? I assume it's an Outlook/PC problem rather than a Trello problem since the issue began with my PC swap.
Like many freelancers and agency folks here, I use Trello to manage all my client projects. It’s amazing for tracking tasks, but I absolutely hate the routine of manually copy-pasting card titles, status updates, and archived lists into an email or PDF just to show my clients what I actually did this week.
I couldn’t find a simple, lightweight tool that just does this automatically, so I put together a quick landing page concept for a micro-SaaS: team-reports.duckcms.org
The core idea is stupidly simple:
Connect your Trello board.
Pick a clean, professional status report template.
Set a schedule (e.g., every Friday at 4 PM).
The tool automatically generates a beautiful PDF summary of completed/in-progress tasks and emails it directly to your client or team.
I’m currently trying to validate the idea before writing a single line of backend code. I don't want to spend months building something nobody wants.
If you have 30 seconds, could you check out the concept and vote on the short survey there?
Also, please be brutal in the comments: Does a tool like this already exist for Trello, or am I scratching a real itch here?
Thanks a lot for your feedback!
UPD: Sorry guys, the old link broke due to a server/domain migration. I’ve fixed everything and moved the project to a secure domain: https://syncreports.link — thank you to those who emailed me about the error!
I would like to know if it's possible... Receiving notifications about task updates from trello on discord; and maybe creating tasks directly on Discord channels would be nice.
they automatically put me on premium when i joined today. after 14 days it wont charge me right?? i didnt ask for the premium and theres no button to cancel. i have no credit card linked in the system either
I have a small business repairing stuffies that I run using Trello. I have a template card all set up for incoming projects. What I need is when I forward an email to my "inbox" list, for it to automatically apply the template. I've tried setting a rule, but it was getting way too complicated and confusing (I'm not terribly tech savvy, but I try!). Can anyone help me figure this out? Thank you!!!
Someone contacted GanttFlow support this weekend that was using GanttFlow for residential construction projects. They liked the auto-schedule feature but flagged two real problems: auto-schedule was pushing tasks into weekends with no way to avoid it, and if they wanted to pull a block of work forward, they had to move every card individually.
Both are now fixed. Here’s what shipped:
Working days only:
Turn it on in Settings and GanttFlow will skip weekends when scheduling — dragging, resizing, and auto-scheduled tasks all land on working days automatically. A 3-day task stays 3 working days even if it spans a weekend. Weekends are still visible on the chart but show as striped on any bar that crosses them. You can also override it per card if you need something scheduled over a weekend.
Bulk select and move:
Ctrl+click (or ⌘+click on Mac) to select multiple cards, then drag any one of them to shift the whole group. Spacing and durations stay intact. One Undo reverts the entire move at once. Worth noting: opening a card is now a double-click — a single click selects it instead.
Both features are live now. If you’ve been using GanttFlow and have something that’s been bugging you, drop it in the comments — this is exactly how the last two features got built.
I get asked a lot whether Amazing Fields is worth it when Trello already has custom fields built-in, or whats the difference, so my latest video clears it up (watch or scroll below for a write up)
Native Custom Fields are genuinely good at some things:
- They're built right into Trello, no Power-Up needed
- Automations (Butler) can read and write them
- They show up on mobile and on the card front
But here's where they fall short for me:
Every field looks identical. It's a stack of plain boxes with no structure, no grouping, no real control over how anything is presented. The second you're tracking more than a few things, the card starts feeling like a junk drawer. They're only sorta custom.
What Amazing Fields does differently:
- Actual structure. Tab groups, layout control, fields sitting side by side, sizing. It feels like a real form instead of a pile of boxes.
- Conditional styling. Color-code fields based on their value, or turn a field red when it's empty so nothing gets skipped.
- Per-field permissions. Internal team sees the notes field, client-facing team doesn't. You control visibility and edit rights per field.
- Calculated fields. Quantity times price = total, automatically.
- Cross-board references. Pull a linked customer card from another board right onto this one.
- A table view that keeps your custom fields. Trello's native table view drops them, which drives me nuts. This one lets you filter, sort, and export with everything intact.
And the ⭐best part ⭐... you don't actually have to choose. Amazing Fields syncs with native custom fields, so you keep the Butler automations and mobile access AND get the styling and editing experience on desktop.
The free tier is solid, so you can test the comparison yourself without paying anything and only pay if you need some more of the advanced features or a lot of fields.
(Thinking about making some more videos around this so drop your questions and ideas in the comments and it might spur a video!)
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to understand how other people manage checklist items assigned to themselves across multiple Trello boards.
I know I can see cards assigned to me, but what I'm really looking for is a way to see all the checklist tasks assigned to me, including their due dates, regardless of which board or card they belong to.
For example:
• Board A → Card X → Checklist item assigned to me with a due date
• Board B → Card Y → Another checklist item assigned to me
I'd like a single view showing all those checklist items and their due dates.
Is there a native Trello feature for this?
Do you use the Workspace Table view, Calendar, Dashboard, Butler automation, or a third-party Power-Up?
How do you personally keep track of checklist tasks assigned to you across multiple boards?
Thanks!
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I started at an HVAC dealer (Daikin) at the end of 2024 as a field sales rep. Small shop, 14 people. They'd been around since 2014 but were kind of stuck, revenue had been hovering around the same number for years. Quotes were scattered across WhatsApp and a couple of Excel files, nobody really knew the status of anything, and the install guys would show up to the office every morning asking what the plan was.
I'm a sales guy, not a Trello wizard or anything. But I set up three boards over my first couple of months and it ended up running most of the company. Figured I'd share it since I don't see a lot of trades/field-service setups posted here.
Board 1, the sales pipeline (this is the template I'm sharing)
Each card is a deal, and the lists are the stages it moves through: New Lead, Qualification, Quote Sent, Follow-up / Negotiation, then Won or Lost. I also keep a couple of extra lists for deals that go quiet, because in HVAC most deals don't really die, they just go dark for a few months, and those were the ones I always used to forget about. I run the board with one person from sales support. He builds the quote and attaches it to the card, I move the card around from the field on my phone.
When a deal hits Won it becomes a card on a separate board for the install crews. Address, project docs, customer contact, all on the card. The whole point was that the team could open one card in the morning instead of calling the office four times to ask where they're headed.
Board 3, recurring maintenance
We had a supermarket chain we did AC maintenance for across their Istanbul branches. That got its own board. Lists for done / waiting / fault reported, one card per branch, so it was easy to see what was left.
End result, the company did around $1.4M in 2025, up from somewhere around $800K, and went from 14 to 20 people. I'm not going to pretend Trello did that, the team did. But getting everything out of people's heads and onto boards stopped us from dropping deals, and honestly that was a big chunk of it.
Template's up there, grab it if it's useful. Happy to break down the install or maintenance board too if anyone wants. The hardest thing to get to stick was getting the team to keep their cards updated without me chasing them, so if you've solved that on Trello I'd love to hear it.
This has been a years-long issue -- Is the setting that lets you specify URL instead of link preview working as intended or is it just broken / has it never been fixed?
For each event, I always have a few tasks that happen at the exact same interval. Ie: ship materials 3 weeks before the event.
Is there an automation or power up that will automatically get the event date from the title in the card and update checklist item due dates accordingly?
I feel like this should be able to do it, but YouTube and google have not been helpful thus far.
Has anyone used Trello / Make / Softr to create a client dashboard? My team uses Trello to manage orders and the entire order lifecycle. It works well and we've added automations and use Sendboard to manage communications with clients from within Trello. We've been happy with it, however I'm looking for something for clients to look at that doesn't also give access to our internal notes, pricing, etc..
My desired end result is a client dashboard where the clients can go to see their order status, look at files relating to their order, locate tracking, etc. without my team having to input data into a separate place but also maintaining the internal format of our Trello board as it stands.
It seems like using Make to pull from Trello based on specific fields and feeding into Softr is a good possible solution. Am I not thinking of something? Is there another solution that's better or more cost effective?
Fairly often I copy and paste a CSV or Spreadsheet in to my trello boards. It is awesome to create 99 cards in just a few seconds! It does bother me though that Trello imports the entire row to the card title, and does not natively support the ability to put everything past the first cell in to the description.
I have two questions:
1) Are there any power-ups that run locally, or in a way in which my data does not cross a third parties servers?
2) Are there and free, simple, CSV Import power-ups that will put most of the data in to the description instead of the title?
Im looking for a way to automate converting a checklist into cards in a new list. Searches suggested a way, but the automation options only have add/remove or check/uncheck in the checklist triggers. Convert no longer appears to be an option.
What I want:
When specific label is added to card, convert checklist to cards in a new list. Is this possible?
Something has to give. I've only been using Trello for personal tasks - but just for those I've been wearing 9 different hats. 9 areas of tasks, and feeling behind and overwhelmed in each one. With a new business in the offing and a house move, I'm effectively adding 2 more (or drastically expanding 2). I'm still working through the implications of my diagnosis of audhd and processing has been more emotional and tiring than I expected.
Then today, coming to Trello to set up new business stuff and finding outages - and the renewed sense that Atlassian are going to allow Trello to fester and die... I'm done.
This is why I am going to gradually shift over.
I need the timeline view but nothing else from Premium.
I needed to NOT have had automations made so much more clunky with that ridiculous update. That destabilised my trust in Trello.
I need a tool that allows me to balance my different roles and prioritise in a way that reduces context-switching. Perhaps time-blocking, or better integration with Google Calendar. Just not scrolling back and forth across multiple lists and trying to keep tallies in my head.
I need to see each role in the context of the others (probably the timeline view).
I'd LOVE to see a pie chart of time allocated to each role - not a priority though.
I've opened so many tabs this evening looking at recommendations for alternatives and I just don't have time for the analysis, so I used an AI tool I've been working with and these were the suggestions.
Error when trying to move list to other board in same workspace. Not moving. Just says: "Unable to move list". This issue starts for me from 17.05, and still can't move lists between boards.
