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by pgambling 5086 days ago
I started playing with Trello a week ago. It's beautiful and I see huge potential using it for my daily todo list. One thing I really want is a dead simple way to add new items to an "Inbox" list, which I sort later. (Thinking GTD)

An Android home screen widget and maybe a Chrome extension for this would rock. This is how I currently use Remember The Milk on my phone because you can specify a default list for all new items.

Is something like this in the works? If not, looks like I should be able to cobble something together using the Trello API.

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I use zapier to convert emails to a backlog list (using a "trello" filter for the emails).
Ooh, I like Zapier! Looks like a useful service
I've been wrestling with this, too. Right now my GTD Inbox list is just empty, because if I'm going into Trello, I might as well put the item where it belongs (whether Next Actions, Waiting On, etc). I guess I'm looking for my Inbox to be populated with stuff that arrived outside of Trello.

I might be wrong on this because I'm relatively new to Trello and GTD, but I also didn't see a way to tag cards, which seems really useful.

You can adopt a convention (like #tag) and then search/filter cards with that tag pretty easily. It's not built in tagging support, but I'm not sure if GTD actually requires more than that.
It might be possible to write an IMAP interface to Trello, so it just shows up as another email account you can file emails into (Board -> Folder, Title -> Subject, etc.).
Click on a card -> add a label.
Android support is on the way, and already in beta: https://trello.com/card/android-app/4d5ea62fd76aa1136000000c...
Is it a public beta? I'd love to participate.