Reminders and Notifications

Question

it there a way to set reminders on card??

I want to schedule all my sites articles on trello (each article will have its own card

So it goes from the initial list of "to be written" then in to the "completed" list

I want a notification for every 3 or 6 or even 12 months depending on the article to tell me that that article needs updating. Ideally I would want it to move itself into a "needs updating list"

Ideal would be to use butler, set up a button in each card, "remind me in 3 months". Remind me in 6 months" and so on, and the process to be 1) move card to 'needs updating' list in X months 2) mark red 3) comment to notify user

any thoughts or work arounds - I can do most of it just not the move to list in X months as there seems to be no delay setting or is "due date" how to do this??

Iain Dooley · Answer

@Andy Ellis Here is the method for doing what you want in Butler:

You can set up buttons in the Power Up to set due date in 3, 6 or 12 months based on whatever button you press:

Set due in 3 months

Set due in 6 months

Set due in 12 months

Even though Butler doesn't allow command chaining, Butler will run a command that is assigned to a due date or offset from a due date even if Butler set the due date, so you can still say:

The moment a card is due add the red label, move to list "Notified" and post comment "@board this card is due"

Alternatively you could hard code your own name into the notification, or add yourself to the card and use @card instead of @board.

Here is the same feature written in Trellinator instead of Butler:

https://gist.github.com/iaindooley/67d05155ebe4c2148d4cb8089a5716da

Note that in Trellinator I'm using adding a label to trigger the command instead of a button. This will work across all devices when the Butler power up is unavailable. You could use the same label triggering technique in Butler.

Andy Ellis_nb4z78 · Answer

ok this might work but ideally, I would want to set up 3 buttons in butler for example

* remind me in 3 months
* remind me in 6 months
* remind me in 12 months

When those periods pass, i would want the card to move to another list, mark in red, and maybe notify me...... but there seems to be no way???

Iain Dooley · Answer

@Andy Ellis this is a good case for API automation. Butler can do workflow automation like this. I also had a tool released in the Trello integrations section the other day called Trellinator that is a more sophisticated bot creation tool (but requires coding):

https://trello.com/en-AU/integrations#/trellinator

I did a quickstart guide here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-articles/Introducing-Trellinator-Automate-Trello-with-Google-Apps-Script/ba-p/925271