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Create a card without going into a board

Eric Woehrling

Hi, we're using Workboard but trying Trello. In WB you can create a task (equivalent of Trello card) and then assign it to a Workstream (equivalent of Trello board). That's useful because you often think of a task and want to jot it down before you think of where to categorise it. It seems that in Trello you have to go into the board before you create a card. When you hit the + button it lets you create a board or a team but not a card. Am I missing something?

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Iain Dooley

@Eric Woehrling there's various ways to create cards without going into a board, but it depends on your platform:

1) Using the Mac or Windows desktop apps you can have a shortcut key to add a card from anywhere

2) On iOS or Android you can use the widget to create a card without opening to Trello

3) Not sure about Android, but on iOS you can use Siri shortcuts to create a Trello card via voice command

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Iain Dooley

@Eric Woehrling there's various ways to create cards without going into a board, but it depends on your platform:

1) Using the Mac or Windows desktop apps you can have a shortcut key to add a card from anywhere

2) On iOS or Android you can use the widget to create a card without opening to Trello

3) Not sure about Android, but on iOS you can use Siri shortcuts to create a Trello card via voice command

milynnus

Board is a container for list and cards. So you need a board created. More challenging is how to create a card. I am using Wayscript and user can use their form module to capture the fields to populate the card including an attachment (though I have not tried it it) Wayscript has a Trello module that will add the form data into the card. Custom Field need some programming.

Working with Trello on iOS as @Iain Dooley says is a breeze.

Eric Woehrling

Thanks Ian, sorry for late reply to your reply.

1) Can you provide a link to an article showing me how to create such a shortcut?

2) It's not a question of creating a card without opening Trello, just within Trello to create a card without first choosing a board

Thanks again,

Eric

Eric Woehrling

Thanks SGI. I understand that you need to add a card to a board, that's no problem. What I want to be able to do is to create a card and then select which board it belongs to. You can do that in Workboard so I thought it should be possible in Trello.

Iain Dooley

@Eric Woehrling here you go:

https://blog.trello.com/trello-desktop-app-for-mac-and-windows#:~:text=Click%20the%20gear%20icon%20in,with%20one%20of%20these%20shortcuts.

You can also do this from the mobile app, so basically the only place you can't create a card and choose which board it belongs to is the web app, the desktop and mobile apps allow you to do it.

Eric Woehrling

Thanks Ian,

I'm still a bit confused. I downloaded the Trello desktop app and followed those steps. I found the "Quick Add Shortcut" which promises to let you "choose a combination of keys below to create a card from anywhere." The problem is that the field is not editable so I can't choose anything. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

Eric

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