Creating Cards and Descriptions

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Create your first card with additional text information.

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Creating Cards and Descriptions

Create your first card with additional text information.

When to use

To get familiar with how to add cards to lists. To learn how to add further description and details to each card.

Instructions

To Add a New Card

1. Select the Add a card... link at the bottom of the desired list.

2. Enter the text you would like to have appear on the front of the card.

3. Select enter on your keyboard or the Add button to create the new card.

 

To Edit the Name of a Card

1. Select the Edit icon (pencil image) on the right side of an existing card.

2. This will highlight the name of the card and allow you to change the name.

3. Select Enter on your keyboard or the Save button to confirm your changes.

 

To Add a Description to a Card

1. Open up the card details by selecting anywhere on the card except the Edit icon.

2. Within the card, select the Edit the description... link.

3. Input text to add further details for this card.

4. Select Enter on your keyboard or the Save button to confirm your changes.

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  • 00:04 Now that we've learned the basic components of Trello.
  • 00:07 What a board is, what a list is, and what a card is.
  • 00:12 Let's take a look at how we can create cards and add a description.
  • 00:17 To create a card in Trello, you will simply select the Add
  • 00:20 a card link which will be found at the bottom of each list.
  • 00:25 Even if your list already contains several cards,
  • 00:28 you will always find this Add a card link at the very bottom.
  • 00:32 By clicking this link, it will open up a blank
  • 00:36 card name allowing you to enter information for that card.
  • 00:41 Let's put in a few examples here.
  • 00:42 I'm going to say Redesign website homepage.
  • 00:47 I'm going to hit Enter on my keyboard, or I can select the green Add button,
  • 00:50 and it will automatically open up another card for me to enter.
  • 00:56 This makes it very quick for you to add a number of cards in succession.
  • 01:00 I'm gonna say Write new book, and again I'm gonna select Enter on my keyboard.
  • 01:06 Now Trello will always automatically open up another blank card for you to enter,
  • 01:11 but you can simply click anywhere else on the Trello board to close that new field.
  • 01:17 Now you can see the first two cards within this list.
  • 01:21 Now, if you need to go back and change the name of your card,
  • 01:25 you will wanna select the Edit icon found on the right.
  • 01:29 By selecting that Edit icon,
  • 01:31 the name of your card will automatically be highlighted.
  • 01:35 And you can go in and change the name of that card.
  • 01:38 Let's say we design website about page.
  • 01:44 I can hit Enter again and now we've renamed that particular card.
  • 01:49 It's important to note that if you want to rename that card to
  • 01:52 make the selection here and not click on the card itself.
  • 01:56 By clicking anywhere on the card other than the Edit icon,
  • 02:00 you will open up the card.
  • 02:02 And here we have many more options as to additional information and
  • 02:07 additional details in which we can add to this card.
  • 02:10 In the subsequent videos I'll be showing you how to add these additional features
  • 02:16 and these additional pieces of information.
  • 02:18 Now once your card is opened, you can also rename it here.
  • 02:23 Simply click on the name of the card, and you will see a cursor.
  • 02:27 So now we can change the name of this card once again.
  • 02:31 I'm gonna change this to the contact page, and hit Enter.
  • 02:36 Now, we can also have the ability to add further descriptions to this card.
  • 02:41 It should be noted that the names of most Trello cards are usually kept
  • 02:46 relatively short, and that's because you could be managing a lot of information
  • 02:51 within a single Trello board.
  • 02:54 Remember, you may have a board that contains seven or
  • 02:57 more lists, and each list may contain 20 or more cards within them.
  • 03:03 So it's usually recommended to have the name of your card kept relatively short,
  • 03:08 perhaps to a single sentence.
  • 03:11 But when we open up a card, we have the opportunity to add a description.
  • 03:17 Here you see the Edit the description link.
  • 03:20 By clicking on this link, we can add further details about this card.
  • 03:25 We can say change name and picture for everyone.
  • 03:32 Now I can add as much detail in this description pane as I would like.
  • 03:36 Or I can just hit Save, and now I've got further information on this card.
  • 03:41 And if we click outside of the card, you can see that there's a helpful icon
  • 03:45 telling us that there is a description in this card.
  • 03:48 Notice the difference between this first card where we have added a description.
  • 03:53 And this second card where no description has been added yet.
  • 03:57 I'm gonna open up this card one more time and click on the Edit description icon.
  • 04:03 So I can either change what is there or add further information.
  • 04:07 It's important to note that you can even add links within this description.
  • 04:12 So just for example, I'm going to select or
  • 04:16 input the Google home page, and I'm gonna hit Save.
  • 04:20 And you will notice that we now have a clickable link that we can
  • 04:25 access within the description.
  • 04:27 So you can add links to webpages and
  • 04:30 other things that you may want others, or yourself, to reference in the future.
  • 04:34 This can make it very helpful as you manage these cards and
  • 04:38 as you add further pieces of information.
  • 04:41 So that is how you add a card to a Trello board, and
  • 04:45 add further information in the description field.

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