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Over a 12-month period, the UNICEF team evaluated and tested 17 different collaboration applications across project management, video, chat, and email. As part of the experiment, they ran workflows in four different project collaboration tools.

Finally, they decided to use a set of tools to run their virtual office. Trello became their first choice for team work, mainly because:

• A simple “Kanbank-list-card” structure can be easily adopted by team members without project management training;

• Its flexibility and transparency mean that everyone can get the information they need;

• New workflows can be designed on demand, and Kanban is more than just tracking tasks;

• From a visual perspective, combined with features like tagging and filtering, to help them view information in different (and valuable) combinations, whether by country or by job or solution;

• We were able to shape Trello according to the way the organization thought and acted, rather than trying to integrate our team and our daily changing needs into a fixed structure.

Trello is an excellent project management and task management tool. Visual Kanban is flexible and shareable, allowing you to put all the details into each card. Trello is not just about work. You can use it to organize anything, maybe your whole life.

As Trello co-founder Joel Spolsky explains: Someone saw Trello and said, “Oh, this is Kanban, the agile way of software development.” Yes, but it can also be used for wedding planning, listing vacation plans to share with family, keeping track of job seekers’ openings, and a billion other things. In fact, Trello is suitable for any scenario where you need to maintain lists with a group of people.

Spolsky says he regularly uses about 30 Trello kanbans with people in his daily life. Check out these exciting templates and suggestions for what you can do with Trello besides managing work projects.

Trello uses a variety of creative scenarios

Daily Task Plan

Your days are filled with all sorts of things happening in all aspects of your life. Keeping these tasks in one place is key to getting them done. Unlike traditional to-do apps, with Trello, you can collect your tasks into a list while having a bird’s eye view of the day. This makes it the perfect tool for planning what to do next.

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Recipes and meal plans

Trello makes it easy to organize your favorite recipes and schedule breakfast, lunch and dinner that won’t be the same for a week or even months. Create a recipe kanban where you can customize each card with a photo of the recipe, a list of ingredients, and cooking instructions. Then, create a meal plan by simply adding the date to the recipe card you’re going to make. If you go to the Calendar view of The Trello Kanban (enabled by opening the kanban menu, selecting Power Ups, and then clicking the “Add” button on the calendar card), you can view your meal plans by week or month.

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Reading list Management

I want to read more and more books! ? You can simply create a dynamic list of titles, or add more information by creating cards for each book in Trello. Then, as software engineer Juvoni Beckford shares, you can track and manage every aspect of your reading life, from storing book recommendations to managing reading queues to writing book reviews for personal use.

Better yet, share your book board with family, friends or colleagues and start a book club.

(Photo by Juvoni Beckford)

Holiday plan

Planning a trip usually involves a lot of information gathering and decision-making. Trello can easily capture everything from booking confirmation to packing lists to daily activities so you can relax and really enjoy your vacation. I use this on both short and long trips, as drag-and-drop cards make it easy to move plans around, staying flexible but still organized.

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Wedding planning or other large events

If you’re planning a big day with lots of guests, you might want to plan every detail in advance so that the day runs smoothly, just as you thought it would. Macy Volpe wrote in The book Travel and Beyond that Trillo’s wedding kanban came to her rescue countless times when she was planning her wedding, especially when she needed information from her phone.

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Record the growth of the children

Kids go through so many changes between the time they’re born and the day they move out of home, most of which you might want to document and look back on when they’re older. Start with the baby’s first year, using this baby milestone Trello kanban. Cards can record monthly milestones in a list, but you can create separate lists for each month.

Then create lists of their transcripts, achievements and other memorable events as they grow older. Share kanban with your family so they can enjoy these unforgettable moments, too.

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Housework and spring cleaning

Heather Farris uses Trello to capture all the tasks she wants to accomplish in a deep sweep: “I go from room to room, adding tasks to each card on my phone. Then, when I’m ready for deep cleaning, I know what I need to do.”

If you find yourself distracted by lower-priority tasks during spring cleaning, this Trello kanban will remind you of your most important tasks and help you stay on track. You can also use Trello to plan weekly chores for your family to keep everyone in order (and keep everything spotless).

(Image credit: The Balanced Mamas)

College application

Applying to a foreign university is a multi-year, multi-step process with a large number of tasks and many different deadlines. Trello can help you get everything organized so you don’t miss out on getting into your dream college because of a simple oversight. CJ, a student at the University of Chicago, started using Trello at the end of his junior year of high school to keep everything in order.

“I use Trello to manage myself, and it helps a lot. The system I use helps me keep track of deadlines, requirements and processes for each school. It enabled me to keep brief descriptions of different schools and programs for comparison throughout the process. I can put all my papers in one place, keep track of my progress on them, recall the schools I visited/interviewed with, and the scholarships I applied for at each one. Basically, I can put all my college application information in one place and easily organize/browse.”

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