Trello is a fun tool for collaborative project management, but you can also use it personally to get things done. Google Insights Lead Gautam Ramdurai describes how he's using Trello to get into the "productivity Goldilocks zone."
The problem, he says, with other productivity apps is they don't give you the "full view" of all the tasks you need to do or they only offer a myopic view of tasks one day at a time. What he wanted was the ability to zoom out to see all his tasks at once, but also get granular and see only the 3 tasks for the day. Enter Trello:
I love Trello because I can zoom in to as granular a detail as I want and zoom out just as much to get the bird's eye view. I first came across this great post about implementing the GTD in Trello which I then customized further. While I've always been a fan of GTD — implementing it seemed like a lot of work. Who wants to draw quadrants every single morning. What about tasks that don't fall in any of the four quadrants? And it seemed like a very analog way of organizing — while that has its merits, I needed something that I could carry with me at any time and some place where I could add more things as and when needed without having to re-do my list.
Ramdurai's system, which he describes how to set up, combines some of the principles of GTD with those of the Accidental Creative—and a data engineering mindset.
Essentially, you set up the lists shown above, add tasks, and color-code them using Trello's labels (important, not important, urgent, and not urgent—a.k.a. Eisenhower's matrix). Drag the task cards around to prioritize them and cluster similar tasks together.
It's a neat system for getting the big picture while also focusing on what needs to be done on a day-to-day basis. Check out the link below for details on using this.
Locus/Focus: an approach to productivity without myopia | Medium
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