Trello calendar is a useful feature to have on your Trello
boards if you are a regular user of Trello project management
application. Today I will show you two power ups which you can
use to achieve the calendar functionality in your Trello
boards. Now First, you need to understand the importance of
having a calendar. So these are my lists. These are three
generic list for a project manager, what to do, what we are
currently doing, and what we have done. Now in this list, I
have these cards and every card might have one or more tasks.
And some cars as you can see, they have a due date. No the
problem with having only the due date is that it is kind of
random dates. And this happens in project management. Sometimes
you have to start a task which is going to finish later, but
you have to start it earlier and vice versa. In calendar, we will
be able to see all those tasks which need our attention today
are within next three days are within a week or a month. So
this is why we use calendar so that we can see what is due next
Now there are two Power Apps which you can use to get
calendar functionality. So I will demonstrate both of them.
But if you are on a free Trello plan, you can check only one
power up at a time. So you can do that easily. And I will show
you how. So let's start click on show menu and in this power ups
because Trello gave me one month free gold membership. So
therefore I can add three power ups at the moment. So I just
click Add Power up. And the first power up is the default
calendar power up. So I just type calendar then this is the
power up which we are going to demonstrate first and then the
second power up is planning a calendar. So these two we are
going to see today. So first click on Add. And now we can
close this window because we can see calendar here and clynder
has been added at the top of the board. Now if I click on
calendar now, now I can see all my tasks on a calendar. And
there are two views. One is the month view and the other is the
week view. So if I click on week view, I have this card which is
due in this week. And this is the current day, which is shown
in yellow color. So this card is due within two days. So I should
be focusing on this task now. And if you select week, you can
have some more information what team members are working on this
card at the moment and that you are watching this card watching
means that if anyone updates any information inside the card, you
will get the notification. So this is how it works. If I
select month, no I can see all the cards these strike through
cards represent those tasks which have been completed. Now I
can see the picture more clearly. And the second
advantages, which is from the productivity point of view, that
instead of changing the due date on a card, you can simply drag
this card to the next date. And it will change know the due date
on this card will change. So this is the way you can use
calendar power up to see that clear picture of your project
and to be more productive by having the ability to drag and
drop your cards from one date to another date. So these are the
two main advantages of using calendar powerup. But there are
a few things which you cannot do here. For example, if you want
to put a start and end date on this task that it will start on
16th. And it will end on let's say 24. So this you cannot do on
calendar power up. So therefore I want to demonstrate another
power up on which you can do this. And now let's close this
and I can add the other power up. But let's say you are on a
free Trello account, and you want to remove this power
because you are only allowed to have one power up, you can click
on this and then disable this. And no I have disabled the
calendar power up. And now I can add the new power up. So I click
on Add Power up and the other power apiece. Anyway, this is
the power of et et and now I can close this because I can see the
icon appearing here. And on the right hand side. It also appears
here so I can close this. And now if I click on this plenty
way planner, I can see my cards here. And now if I click on
this, in plenty way I can see that every card has a start and
an end date. No this task has a start and end date because I
have previously used this power up and now let's say I want to
put a start and end date of this task. What I can do is I hover
over this end when this double sided arrow appears. I click and
drag
and then I release If I click on this, I can see that now it has
a start date and an end date. In order to use this plenty way
planner power up, the best way is to use with a Chrome
extension. So I just type plenty a Chrome extension. And now if I
click on this, and then click on Add to Chrome, this extension
will be added add extension. And now let me close this windows.
And I reopen this board. So it needs to be enabled. So I just
click Enable. And now I allow this app to get access to a few
things which are written here, you can read it if you like,
allow. And now we have the view of our Trello board, and this
extension here. So this is a better way of working with
plenty where you can click on this plan even and you can go
back to your Trello board, or you can just click again, and
you can see both views. There are many other features in this
powerup. But those features are paid features, for example,
these filters, these are very powerful. But when you try to
apply these filters, you will see that it needs a pro version.
Similarly, you can add boats. But as soon as you click on
this, and you try to add any other board, which would be very
powerful, because on one calendar, you will be able to
see more than one projects, which is fantastic. But as soon
as you try to click, it says it's a pro feature. Now there
are two views. Currently, I am in the calendar view, but you
can also have a timeline view. So if I click on timeline, now
you can see that there is some overlap between these tasks. And
when this task is just like a Gantt chart, so you can use this
timeline feature, which is a very powerful feature as well.
In particular, if you are working on any engineering
project, where still most project managers use Gantt
charts, so this will be very useful for you. So timeline and
calendar are two kinds of features we have here. If I
click on this settings, and then settings again, here I have the
ability to link due date to either to start date or to the
end date are, if I want I do not link to any due date. So let's
say I link this to end date. So the due date is the end date of
any task. And then I can save this. And why due date is
important. Because if you're watching this card, if you are
assigned this card, then you will get the notification about
your due date. So this is why I do that is important, and other
powerful functionalities synchronization with your Google
Drive. And if I click on this, again, it's a pro feature. So if
you want to synchronize your Google Drive with your Trello
board, you can think about paying this company, I think $5
a month. If these features are beneficial for you, you can go
ahead and purchase this powerup. So let's go back to calendar
view. So I can also change this from month to day. And then I
will get the time as well. Similarly, I can go for three
days. With the time up to one week, I will get this time as
well. So this is useful if you want to have a closer look on
some of the tasks within a week, for example, any meeting at a
specific time, or let's set it back to monthly basis. And if
you want more space, you can just drag this lawyer and you
can get more space on any side wherever you want. Another pro
feature is that if I want to see all my three lists here at the
bottom, so that I can drag and drop cars from all of my lists.
So to do that, I have to activate lists inside this
filter. If I click on any of these lists, I can put these
lists here so that I can drag and drop cars from those lists.
But this is also a pro feature. If I click on this, it will show
me that it is a pro feature. Now at the end, I would like to show
you a few more features. If you click on this pencil icon, you
have the ability to set the priority feature. But this is a
paid feature. As you can see, however, these label feature you
can label these For example, I can put a green label on that.
And similarly you can add any members to this card. And you
can also mark it as complete or you can duplicate our archive
card. And one important feature is that you can directly delete
this card. And to remove this label, just click it again and
it will be removed.
So this was a brief Overview of these two power ups, calendar
and plenty way, which you can use to have the calendar
functionality on your Trello boards.