Gmail to Trello integration. Create new Trello cards from Google mail threads with backlinks.
A free tool that provides an extra 'Add card' button on Gmail UI to add current reading email to a Trello card
** Development and Support Board here for feature/bug submitting and voting: https://trello.com/b/CGU9BYgd/gmail-to-trello-chrome-extension
** This extension is now open source at: https://github.com/tungbi/gmail-to-trello-extension -- code contributions welcome!
It's my pleasure to have contribution from https://github.com/acoven, who's actively developing the extension since the v2.2.2 release
** Main features **
- Detect email opening mode, also the most visible email in current thread
- Add a button "Add new card" into Gmail's toolbar
- Extract email's title, body, timestamp, also reduce text's complexity
- User can choose which list, board or organization will contain the new card
- User can assign him/herself to the new card
- Current email can be easily looked up later via a direct link, or searching (useful for group collaboration)
- Can set labels
- Can set due date
- Can include attachment links
- Authorized via Trello account
Some other useful features:
- Support both simple and split layout ("Preview Panel" in lab/Outlook-like)
- Remember current list, board, org. selection after new card is created
- User can pick up another emails in thread while popup is opening, or reopen popup again to detect & extract email's content again
- Popup is resizable, draggable
- Display Trello's labels similar Trello.com, so they are easier to be selected
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CHANGE LOG:
Version 2.7.0.1
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- Fix bug in creating new card
- Simplify UI for adding to a card vs. adding new card below
Version 2.7.0.0
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- Add to an existing card!
- Had to change UI a little to account for card selection and "where" to put the card
Version 2.6.0.0
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- Make minimum width bigger for popup
- Create shortcut dropdown for due date
- Create option entry to add more to shortcut dropdown
- Persist previous due date and time
- Attachments and Images now are transferred completely to Trello instead of lodging as links back to Gmail
- Give back to Trello API community how to upload binary data
Version 2.5.1.3
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- Support keyboard shortcuts: Alt/Opt+Shift+G is the default to show the popup (once in Gmail and the button is visible)
- While the Popup is showing, hitting ESCAPE or CTRL/CMD+. will dismiss the popup.
- CTRL/CMD+ENTER will Add to Trello.
- Change stray bullets to asterisks but not stray hyphens
Verison 2.5.1.2
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- Fix member assignment buttons to persist across board changes
- Shift-click "Labels:" or "Members:" to clear
- Fix typos GMail -> Gmail
Verison 2.5.1.1
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- Layout changes to accomodate smaller screens
Version 2.5.1.0
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- Can now assign other users
- Your id should always be first in Assign list
- Remove "Assign to me" button
- Move signout and error to chrome extension loaded html files
- Make label and member msg boxes same height as label and member chicklets so things don't "jump" up and down when picking new boards
Version 2.5.0.4
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- Fix pInterest loads with white overlay on top of first 20 pinned items -- was conflicting with jQuery UI CSS
- Moved jQuery-ui-css loading to top of popup
- Changed chrome extension matches[] from "all urls" to only mail.google.com.
Version 2.5.0.3
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- Fix problem of email with no body
Version 2.5.0.2
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- Try to fix parseData to always return a valid data block (even if empty data)
- Update board changed to clear out list/labels when settings boardId is different than boardId
- Gray box around imgs in image list to show "spacer" images
- Use window.location.pathname to provide "/mail/u/0/" or "/mail/u/1/" etc. for different gmail accounts
Version 2.5.0.1
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- Add support to attach images from Gmail
- Fix typo with missing brace for uriForDisplay
- To handle jQuery UI looking to Gmail for UI icons, must replace url("images... with url("chrome-extension://__MSG_@@extension_id__/images...
Version 2.4.27
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- Support img vs text buttons
Version 2.4.26
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- Make sure correct ThreadID is used for message
- Better processing of hand-provided bullets to markdown
Version 2.4.25
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- Generate thread id for direct link to email
- Take another pass at storing board, list, label and resetting when changed
Version 2.4.24
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- Use Gmail's down-facing widget instead of plus sign
- Make window resizable and scrollable
Version 2.4.23
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- Separate date and time inputs for due date
- Smaller UI for Add Card button
- Change nomenclature to "Add to Trello" to prep for adding to individual card
Version 2.4.22
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- Fix "Name" <name> email pattern in Markdownify and anchorMarkdown
Version 2.4.21
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- Make sure to clear out list and labels when no labels
- Restrict labels space to two rows with scroll bar if longer
Version 2.4.19
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- Add back steps to clear cache for Trello sign-out
Version 2.4.18
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- Add height and width to image tag so it doesn't "jump"
- Adjust centering logic for popup to be more human-friendly (still should move to lower-third resize logic)
Version 2.4.17
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- Call Trello.deauthorize on Sign Out request
- Clean up logic of Sign Out to request Reload afterward
- Clean up error display to find error data in response packet
- Clean up 3+ CRLFs in Markdownify
Version 2.4.15
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- Make replacements holistic
- Clean up markdownify to add numeric lists and allow <span>-like items inside of <div>-like items.
- Remove href="javascript:void(0)" as a likely cause of Content Security Policy warning
Version 2.4.14
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- Change const hash to var hash, causing chrome storage error.
- Truncate description enough to make room for link at end
Version 2.4.12
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- Match regex for Markdownify on non-word boundary, do additional pass and make placeholders then replace those so markdown anchors don't get out of hand
Version 2.4.11
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- Change top/bottom popup to up-line and down-line arrow icons
- Change default for attachments to unchecked - this time for real
- Fix bug where popup width wasn't being saved and restored correctly
- Fix avatar initials to be first name + last name initials, or first 2 chars of username, if no avatar URL/pic
Version 2.4.8
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- Have reproducable case for settings not being saved; fixed with using chrome sync settings and getting timing right
- Added popup to indicate whether to add card to top or bottom (default) of list
Version 2.4.7
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- Try another approach for titlebar of popup to not get duplicate options by setting explicit properties
Version 2.4.6
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- Use paragraph marker for markdown 'li' conversion
- Respect () [] for anchor markdown bookends
- Clear out html before appending items, should fix duplicate html elements problem
Version 2.4.5
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- Add APIFailure display when initial trello grabs fail out
Version 2.4.4
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- Check for avatar URL returned before checking length
Version 2.4.3
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- When text is selected, bring that over instead of entire message
Version 2.4.2
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- Added Markdown button to turn off for main description text
- Added Attachments
- Changed Lists UI to Drop-down, kept styled UI for Labels
- Made labels multi-selectable
Version 2.2.2
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- Adding Labels
- Movable modal UI centered under Add card, Avatars working
- Cleaned up UI
- Lots of bug fixes
- Some additional markdown formatting in description for from: email.
Version 2.1.5
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- Add Google Analytics
- Fix some XSS bugs. Reduce URL permission. Thanks to Vijay for your Pull Request
- Don't show up closed boards.
- Fix "Add to card" button UI
Version 2.1.3.7
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- Fix broken layout caused by min-width
- Increase z-index
Version 2.1.3.4
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- Add "Options" page
- Fix no-wrap error in new card's link displays after creation
- Remove Organization filter
- Add email address to specify where the card came from
Version 2.1.3
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- Is now support an option to assign yourself on creating card
Version 2.1.2
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- Is now support Split layout (Preview Panel)
Version 2.1
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- Big changes: refactoring, bugs fixes, UI/UX improvements
- Instantly update popup's content when user's clicking to another email thread
- Resizable popup
- Better text conversion
Version 2.0.6.2
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- Fix bug: Localization time parsing
Version 2.0.6
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- Add "Search email" ability, which means more accessible from other people
- Auto detect (and highlight) the email thread that is most closed to current viewport. Scrolling can make change to current selection
Version 2.0.5
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- Fix bug: Boards are not in any organizations doesn't show up.
Version 2.0.4
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- Fix bug duplicated buttons
- Fix bug in layout
- Fix bug: can't change subject or description
Version 2.0.1
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- Fix missing icons
- Backlink appearance improving
Version 2.0
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- Improve UX
- Remember previous selections
- Add a "close" popup button
- Add Orgranization list
- Don't display closed boards
- Insert a backlink to Gmail's thread in new card (optional)
- Display a link to new created card
- Refactoring
15/08/2013 - Version 1.1.1
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- Fix bug: missing button after install
- Fix bug: missing icon in "Add to Trello" button
- Keep line-breaks in email's content
- Auto remove email's signature
