![]() And so far, so good… thank you Trello (and thank you Cal Newport for pointing me to it). I have worked hard over the last year to free up time to do the things I want to do. Additionally, I am working on a few other side projects including writing a book. I have a few ideas for more but will be working on suggestions I have received from the first and the second one JUST got published right before this blog post. So, I learned their API and viola, I have built two Power-Ups (as they are known): Being an extensibility guy, I immediately found “room” to build some useful extensions into Trello. One reason I also like Trello as I mentioned was extensibility. So, Trello has been an amazing way for me to get organized. But one thing it does not have integrated into it is the ability for extensions. Now, I am a Microsoft guy, and I know, I know, Microsoft has a tool called Planner (now called Tasks) that is a similar Kanban tool. As I have moved towards more and more automation, one area, thanks to Cal Newport that has helped me keep organized in that effort is an application called Trello. His book pointed me to the 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferris and how to automate aspects of life. This is where my journey crossed paths with the productivity books written by Cal Newport. Through all this, however, one thing I have been getting into is reading a lot around productivity and trying to make the most of my time, or better yet free up my time to do more things I would like to do. I have been involved in other projects and mentoring in Office Development projects and actually have a pet project I have been working on for an Outlook add-in as well. So, I took on a new role as a Program Manager that has only tangential involvement with Office and almost none to do with Office Development. The randomization was both distracting and eye opening. I had moved from doing work exclusively in the Office Developer space to general development, web development, even PowerShell development. I have been away from my blog for quite a long while. Posted in Microsoft Office, Office Development, office.js Productivity and Trello It has been a fun side project as I was delving deeper into writing React code and using prebuilt React controls, so I wanted to share it with everyone. Why not add “training wheels” to the idea of email brevity? So, I wrote the 5entences Add-in for Outlook as a simple to use add-in that tries to help you keep your email responses brief and to the point. And thus, this website was born: .įrom those books, and website, I had an idea. ![]() And I believe it was Tim’s book that first touched on brevity in email. Cal Newport’s “ A World without Email” and Tim Ferris’ “ 4 Hour Workweek” are just two examples. I have been inspired by various books I have read that all cross-pollinate the idea that we use e-mail all wrong or too much. The add-in I just release is the 5entences Add-in for Outlook. The other cannot go though AppSource because it uses the Block On Send interface for Outlook. One is going through the process with AppSource and I will blog about it soon enough. I have been spending some of my free time writing add-ins for Office and Power-Ups for Trello. Have fun and let me know what you think! Posted in Office Development, office.js, Productivity Tagged trello, wordjs 5entences Add-in Released More importantly, it is a useful tool that I think might benefit other writers that use Trello, or writers looking for a new way to keep their notecards and thoughts in a more digital, accessible from anywhere type of format. It was also a fun exercise for me to combine the two types of extensions I have found to enjoy writing (Office and Trello). ![]() Now, I can remain in Word, select the cards I want, and insert them without ever leaving Word. Then I found myself copy/pasting the information from Trello into Word getting lost on the task switching. I do research on the web for various topics and send snippets and pages to Trello cards where I organize and refine them. It is a simple add-in that connects Word to your Trello boards, so that you can insert information you have collected in Trello into your documents. ![]() The add-in is called the Trello Taskpane for Word. It is true that necessity is the mother of all invention. After years and years of blogging about it, I wrote an add-in for something I needed. I have done it! I have published my very first Office Web Add-in to the Microsoft Store. ![]()
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