Planner v Calendar (and PowerUp)

[Nils Geylen]

[Updates in comment]

Ten years into Trello but now I'm confused.

Since it's here, I'm trying the new Planner (w/Inbox) and I might find some use for them. I created a specific To-do board to collect and test. [<--This isn't working out really...]

What confuses me though is:

• adding a due date to a card on my (To-do/any) board does not reflect in the Planner
• adding a "Focus" (?) item in the Planner does not add that to my board
• dragging a Focus item from the Planner to a list isn't possible
• reversely: dragging a card to the Planner works, but
  • if the card had a due date, it disregards that
  • if the card did not have a due date, it does not copy the Planner date as due on the card

I suppose that's all expected behaviour?

I've also...

• enabled my Trello calendar URL and imported it into GCal. That now shows up there;
• and to get GCal items into my Planner, I've also enabled that integration

I'm currently still struggling to discern between

• creating an event in GCal,
• creating an Inbox item,
• dragging that into the planner or not,
• creating a card,
• and dragging that into the planner or not,
• adding a Focus to the planner... [??]

And then there's my board's calendar view...

That shows cards with a due date, but not items in the Planner, whether

• a created Focus
• a dragged card
• and obviously not a GCal read-only item.

I've watched Trello's Tour video but I'm not too sure I'm doing this right.

It all seems very complicated, and currently I'm not seeing how this improves anything--for me at least. I'm no doubt missing some practical use case or still have to achieve a deeper understanding. 

I've not even started looking at Atlas or Confluence; does any of this show up there?

Oh, and what about the Power-Up? I think I used to have that enabled once, but did it get integrated in Trello a couple years back? Would it still do something for me today, on Premium? The Power-Up seems to be mainly for Free (or Standard?) plans and it's gotten less features even there. With Premium I don't see why I'd need it...

It sure is "figuring things out time" now.

Would love to hear new ideas and how people have changed or expanded their planning workflow now.

[Nils Geylen]

This post already answers a lot about the purpose of Planner and Calendar: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Trello-questions/Re-New-Planner-and-Calendar-Power-Up-not-able-to-merge/qaq-p/3058190/comment-id/117053#M117053

New Calendar feature - Personal Calendar view unique for your individual activities
Board Calendar view/powerup - Team Calendar to visualise all tasks

I may not be the right target for Planner per se; I rarely have urgent/immediate to-do's for the day, certainly not at a specific hour.

I benefit more from a wider view across weeks, months even and that's not what Planner is for. [That is possible by 'disabling' the Board view in the Switcher but it's still limited to 7 days.] I'm used to either a continuous Schedule and/or a full 7 days ahead view.