r/trello

Fairly often I copy and paste a CSV or Spreadsheet in to my trello boards. It is awesome to create 99 cards in just a few seconds! It does bother me though that Trello imports the entire row to the card title, and does not natively support the ability to put everything past the first cell in to the description.

I have two questions:

1. Are there any power-ups that run locally, or in a way in which my data does not cross a third parties servers?

2. Are there and free, simple, CSV Import power-ups that will put most of the data in to the description instead of the title?

Our team hit the wall with Trello around month 8. 40+ boards, Power-Up sprawl, no cross-project visibility, every standup starting with questions about loss information.

So I ran a proper evaluation - not a feature checklist, actual pilots with real projects over 3 months.

Asana: cleanest upgrade from Trello. Dependencies and timeline views work well out of the box. Still doesn't replace your chat or docs tool though.

ClickUp: genuinely powerful, genuinely overwhelming. We spent two weeks configuring before doing real work. Worth it eventually if you have patience for setup.

BridgeApp: the one that actually surprised me. Ended up replacing chat, tasks, docs, databases, and video calls in one place. AI Copilot knows your actual workspace context, creates tasks from conversations, summarizes meetings, answers questions from internal docs.

Notion: excellent if your team lives in docs. Falls apart the moment you need actual sprint planning or workload visibility.

Jira: dev teams know what they're getting. Everyone else will quietly resent it.

Mondaycom: good for visual thinkers and ops teams. Spreadsheet-meets-kanban energy. Automations are decent but hit limits faster than advertised.

Airtable: surprisingly powerful for structured data. More database than project tool. Steep setup, but if your workflow is data-heavy it clicks.

Wrike: enterprise-grade but admin-heavy. Overkill for us, probably right for teams with dedicated PMs and complex resource planning.

Basecamp: simple, flat-rate pricing, no feature bloat. If your workflow is genuinely simple, it's a relief. Ours wasn't.

Microsoft Planner: fine if you're deep in M365 already. Don't use it otherwise.

The honest meta-takeaway: most "Trello alternatives" are still just task boards with extra steps. The real question is whether you want to keep stitching tools together or actually consolidate. 

What do you specifically like about Trello that keeps you from switching to another tool?

Did they vibecode and are now "vibefixing" this? This current situation is a joke, they've been down for me for over 16h!

If anyone has some good alternative Trello like platform suggestions that they have good experience with then I am all ears.

Something has to give. I've only been using Trello for personal tasks - but just for those I've been wearing 9 different hats. 9 areas of tasks, and feeling behind and overwhelmed in each one. With a new business in the offing and a house move, I'm effectively adding 2 more (or drastically expanding 2). I'm still working through the implications of my diagnosis of audhd and processing has been more emotional and tiring than I expected.

Then today, coming to Trello to set up new business stuff and finding outages - and the renewed sense that Atlassian are going to allow Trello to fester and die... I'm done.

This is why I am going to gradually shift over.

• I need the timeline view but nothing else from Premium.
• I needed to NOT have had automations made so much more clunky with that ridiculous update. That destabilised my trust in Trello.
• I need a tool that allows me to balance my different roles and prioritise in a way that reduces context-switching. Perhaps time-blocking, or better integration with Google Calendar. Just not scrolling back and forth across multiple lists and trying to keep tallies in my head.
• I need to see each role in the context of the others (probably the timeline view).
• I'd LOVE to see a pie chart of time allocated to each role - not a priority though.

I've opened so many tabs this evening looking at recommendations for alternatives and I just don't have time for the analysis, so I used an AI tool I've been working with and these were the suggestions.

What do you think?

Im looking for a way to automate converting a checklist into cards in a new list. Searches suggested a way, but the automation options only have add/remove or check/uncheck in the checklist triggers. Convert no longer appears to be an option. What I want: When specific label is added to card, convert checklist to cards in a new list. Is this possible?

Is Trello acting like every project manager worst nightmare this morning?

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Did it only for me or it is global thing?

Error when trying to move list to other board in same workspace. Not moving. Just says: "Unable to move list". This issue starts for me from 17.05, and still can't move lists between boards.

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What Happened ? ..If Anyone Know .When this Resolve and a what's Actually Wrong With Trello .Let me Know ..My communication with Production Is Stuck RN

Hey all - is anyone having an issue seeing comments and activity on the side bar? They are not appearing for me.