Trello is a simple, visual drag-and-drop Kanban board tool owned by Atlassian, organizing work into boards, lists, and cards that can be moved between columns with a click. It ranks #11 among dev collaboration tools, reported in roughly 13.7% of developer surveys. Small teams and individuals favor it over heavier tools like Jira because there's almost no setup — a new board is usable in seconds, with no workflow configuration required.
The Trello REST API lets you automate card creation — useful for piping in issues from other systems, forms, or scripts.
# create a new card on a Trello list
curl --request POST \
--url 'https://api.trello.com/1/cards' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
-d key=YOUR_API_KEY \
-d token=YOUR_TOKEN \
-d idList=63f1a2b9c8d4e1 \
-d name="Fix broken checkout button" \
-d desc="Users report checkout fails on mobile Safari"Sign up free at trello.com, create a board, and add lists like "To Do," "Doing," and "Done" — then start dragging cards between them.
1. Go to trello.com and sign up with email or Google/Microsoft account
2. Click "Create new board" and pick a template or start blank
3. Add lists: To Do / Doing / Done
4. Click "+ Add a card" under any list to create a task
5. Drag cards between lists as work progresses