Trello’s new update helps you manage Slack, email, and everything else

Trello is launching several new features this week, all designed to turn the Atlassian-owned app into something like a universal to-do list for everything in your life. By integrating with Slack (and soon Teams), email, and Siri, the company is hoping it can help you put all your important stuff in one place – and then use Trello’s organization tools and a little AI to help you get it all done. Trello originally became popular because of its structure: Kanban boards are powerful and flexible enough to contain almost any kind of project and system. That part doesn’t need to change, says Guarav Kataria, Trello’s head of product. “It’s just that there are too many things in too many places. You’re in email, in Slack, all the social media places and numerous other work tools… and then when you’re running or walking, you probably get ideas in your head.” So now, there’s a new Inbox column in every board, which you can dump things into from all over the web, to be organized later. Kataria’ ... Read full article.