Moving from GTD to Trello

[2cszp5n8b6]

I've been using GTD to manage my professional and personal life for years now. But after reading some books by Cal Newport, I've decided to try using a Trello Kanban board to manage my work. The one thing I find myself hung up on is how to manage projects. In GTD, it is simple, anything that takes 2 or more tasks to accomplish is a project. So my GTD system always had lots of projects. 30 active projects was normal.

Now I don't think it makes sense to have 30 different Trello boards. So how do most people manage this task vs project distinction using Trello?

[Vero Rivas]

Hi @2cszp5n8b6 

   I don't think it answers your question, but maybe it can give you ideas

   https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-questions/GTD-with-Trello/qaq-p/579969

Cheers

[2cszp5n8b6]

Thanks, I did see that thread, but it didn't really answer my question. Probably because my question wasn't very clear! I don't want to replicate GTD in Trello, I'm looking to move away from the GTD system. But I still find Projects and Tasks as useful distinctions. Just wondering how people handle that in Trello.

[Bugra Cil]

Hi there,

I have been practicing GTD with Trello for many months now, and I can say it simply works great. I have got your point, and I would like to suggest you a blog post from Trello: https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-maximizing-productivity-trello

You can use a ready-made template for GTD as well: https://trello.com/templates/productivity/getting-things-done---gtd-Ui72QWNI

I hope that works!

[2cszp5n8b6]

Thanks, that blog post really helped. It's as simple as adding a Projects column to my Trello board! Seems obvious in hindsight. I'm used to the task managers like Things and Omnifocus where the tasks are part of a project and have links back to the project, but I see now with the visually layout of Trello, that's not really necessary.