Can't create personal board

https://help.trello.com/article/1241-why-cant-i-create-a-board-outside-of-a-team-anymore

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Kyle Wholton

I am also having the same issue. My Trello is now significantly less useful now that I'm unable to create personal boards.

When you hit the plus button to create a new board, choose Private in the dropdown.

We're in the process over the next year to rename Teams to Workspaces, and all boards need to be in a Workspace. The setting that used to be called Personal is the same as a Private board in a Workspace.

A Kohl

So @Michael Pryor , what think I am hearing you say, is that we need to create a new workspace (previously teams) that we make private? Then that private (previously personal) workspace is limited to 10 boards?

Or any board we put in any workspace (team) can be made private (personal)?

The app should lead you through this (creating a team) when you go to make a new board.

By default, the new team/workspace is private since you would be the only one with access to it.

So when you make a board in it, even if the board wasn't private, you'd be the only one with access to it.

But to be certain you can mark the board as private, so if later you add anyone to the team/workspace, they can't see the board.

Any board you put in any team/workspace can be made private. The only people that can see a private board are the people on the board (and team admins).

So this means that our private boards will need to go to a private workspace and we will only be able to have 10 boards per workspace. Unless we create more workspaces. This ruins my workshops, as students were presenting their assignments using personal boards with me invited. Now I need to ask all of them to build teams? Also, what I was explaining about the beauties of unlimited Trello personal boards is no longer valid. Also, what I was explaining about Trello's evolution to make things easier is no longer valid anymore. Poor Trello, now that other tools are using Kanban too. You are not the only one anymore.

Heather Gudejko

Having a limit of 10 boards per "workspace" and not having a personal option is very limiting and negates the use of Trello in my workflow. Sadly, it seems that I will have to find an alternative solution.

UGH. I'm already a Gold member, but without the use of the Personal boards it is not as useful. Having to create new private "teams" just to have personal boards?!? Sounds like a way for Trello to charge more money. Not super happy with this change. Like several other commenters, I will start doing some research on other options.

Agreed.

Agreed!

If you signed up for Trello today, you would just hit "+" to make a new board and what you are thinking of as Personal would be just making a Private board in the team/workspace that was created for you when you signed up. It would be exactly what you are used to but instead of the word Personal you would see the word Private.

The only difference between a new user's experience and your experience would be that one time, you need to create your own team/workspace. Once you do that, you would just select "Private" instead of "Personal" in the visibility settings when you create the board.

It's not exactly the same when you say "Each free team/workspace is limited to 10 boards. You can make another team/workspace." My non-existent team until now allowed me to have more than 10 boards without the need to create anything else.

Rhys Lindmark

I also found this behavior surprising.

I used to create a new private board for every week of work. IIUC, I now need to create a new team/workspace every 10 times I create a new board?

This is not great functionality. I would love to continue to make unlimited private board. Strongly considering moving to Notion now.

Exactly. Trello is missing the point here.

Thanks, I will check into that as well.

@Michael Pryor “it would be exactly what you are used to but instead of the word Personal you would see the word Private.”

Not “exactly”! We have to start over after 10 boards with a new “team”! Not even close to the same. This is not conducive for organizing boards. What a mess. 🙄

IgorTitov

Manuela Planinc_1ooe65

I have the same issue. Trello used to be easy and intuitive, now you just started to ruin it.

First thing it was with separating different accounts of the same user (my work/busnisess just require me to use work e-mails, now i need to login/out to acces them?? ) and now i cant even create the most simple personal board, because you are forcing me to select an existing team. There is no team! it is my personal workspace, why does it need to belong somewhere?

It seems to me that some apps ruin their own user experience by themselves, like Evernote, others ruin it when bought by a bigger one, like Wunderlist and Trello. Nothing too good lasts too long, someone will need to monetize more and more.

Another one is Todoist, already a great tasks app that is implementing Kanban view now and syncs 360 with Google Calendar. And allows a start date besides the due date, something that Trello has never been able to provide.

I think the start date will be out when Timeline view ships. It's on my boards internally atm.

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https://help.trello.com/article/1227-switching-between-trello-accounts

I think you should be able to be logged in to both accounts at the same time and switch between them:

Silviya Radkova

I WAS a great Trello fan. But what I see happening with Trello makes me happy that a few months ago switched completely to Asana!!!! I know you have to make money but this is not the way. What will be the next step? Making the free account limited to only one workspace/team??? I'm leaving Trello forever!!!

https://help.trello.com/article/1241-why-cant-i-create-a-board-outside-of-a-team-anymore

We added a help doc on this topic here:

Stephanie Lodie

what other platforms are there that are similar? I kind of like AirTable but not enough to jump. I really like the card features of trello

paloha

Even though it was confusing for me as well, I agree that creating a separate team with only one member which can even be called "Personal Boards" if you wish, solves this. Thx

Manuel Sabin

This is awful

I've been on Trello for years now and this messes up everything. Guess I'm going to have to research other options, this is going to be a painful migration...

Cara Nocero

@[deleted]- this isn't helpful, this is a huge disappointment. i've used Trello for years, I did a user research "Help us make Trello better!Session: Cara" back in February was suppose to get a gift card of some sort, that never happened and now I'm stuck trying to figure out how to get all my personal boards separated (if i want to keep using it at all) and to see if i can even use Trello for our company anymore. I use to preach how great Trello was and must've referred over 100 people to use it. Trello is now Atlassian and it would rob the small company i work for blind to upgrade it given we already pay for every user with Jira, Confluence and the other marketplace add ons that must pay for every user. Smells like greed, looks like greed... let's call it greed. Poor Taco!

Hi Cara,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I hope your company finds the same value in Trello that you found in Jira/Confluence and the other software businesses that you pay for.

If you respond to the email you have on the user research, I’m sure we can find out how to make sure you get the gift card you are entitled for.

erkage

So now...I have to create a TEAM to myself where i will be the only team member for forever? Really? I don't think this sounds good or logical or anything? And uppon this it's limited to 10 tables.

:exploding_head:

So, it looks like the last 2 card that i will make in trello are:
1. cancel my gold subscription
2. look for my new home of everything and move there

How Sim

I think they remove the feature but put it back later. I think it was a very bad move. For this reason, i migrated to asana and i don't think i am going back.

Jorge Ham

It was a terrible decision. Not everyone works in "teams" for everything. I have the problem that my Personal Boards (the ones I use the most) are the ones at the top of the screen, and if I create a team it goes by alphabetical order so I should have to put an A or something in front of the team's name in order to make it appear at the top. This is by no means useful. If there's no way back to the personal boards (or workspaces), then please let us re arrange the order so we can choose which are the ones that show first.