AICHE +Trello Integration

The short answer: open any Trello card, click into the description or comment field, press ⌃+⌥+R (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+R (Windows/Linux), speak for 30-50 seconds, and AICHE inserts the transcribed text where your cursor sits.

Trello's power is simplicity. Drag cards between lists, add a label, done. But that simplicity has a cost: most cards end up with a title and nothing else. No description, no context, no definition of done. When someone picks up a card that says "Update pricing page," they have to track down the person who created it and ask what that actually means. The fix is writing detailed descriptions, but detailed descriptions take 6-10 minutes per card, and nobody does that for a "quick" kanban board. Voice makes a detailed card take the same effort as a vague one.

1. Open Trello in your browser or the desktop app.
2. Click on a card to open its detail view, or click "Add a card" to create a new one.
3. Click into the description field. If the card already has a description, click the existing text to enter edit mode.
4. Press your AICHE hotkey (⌃+⌥+R on Mac, Ctrl+Alt+R on Windows/Linux) to start recording.
5. Speak the full scope of the card: what needs to happen, why it matters, and what "done" looks like.
6. Press the hotkey again. AICHE transcribes your speech and inserts it into the description field.
7. Add labels, due dates, members, and checklists using Trello's sidebar buttons.

Card Descriptions That Replace Follow-up Questions

A card with "Redesign onboarding flow" on a board with five team members will generate five different interpretations. One person thinks it means the signup form. Another thinks it's the welcome email sequence. A third thinks it's the in-app tutorial. The card description exists to prevent this. Press your hotkey and speak everything you mean: which screens are included, what the current problems are, which user feedback you're responding to, and what the end state should look like. AICHE's Content Organization feature takes your spoken explanation and structures it into something readable. The card goes from a sticky note to a brief, and the team moves in the same direction without a meeting to align.

Turning Meeting Notes into Cards

Meetings produce action items. Those action items need to become Trello cards before everyone forgets who agreed to what. The usual process is: take notes in a doc, review the notes after the meeting, create cards one by one, type descriptions from memory. By the time you're creating the fifth card, the context from the meeting is already fading. A faster approach is to open Trello during or right after the meeting and dictate each card directly. Press your hotkey, say "This card is for Sarah to finalize the vendor contract by Friday. She needs to review the redlined version from legal, confirm the payment terms match what we discussed, and send the signed copy to procurement." That's a complete card created in 15 seconds. Do that for every action item while the discussion is fresh.

Setting Up Sprint Boards Fast

When you're setting up a board for a new sprint or project, you might need 15 to 20 cards with descriptions, checklists, and context. Typing all of that takes an hour or more. With voice, create the cards first as empty placeholders in the right lists, then go back through each one and dictate the description. You can also dictate checklist items: create the checklist using Trello's button, click into the first item field, press your hotkey, and speak the item. Move to the next field and repeat. A full sprint board with complete card descriptions and checklists goes from a 90-minute setup task to 30 minutes.

Heads-up: Trello's description field supports markdown, but AICHE inserts plain text. If you want bullet points or headers, add markdown syntax manually after dictation, or enable Content Organization in AICHE settings to get pre-structured output.

Pro tip: for recurring boards (weekly planning, sprint boards), keep a template board and duplicate it. Then dictate only the parts that change each time. This combines Trello's templating with voice speed.

Result: building a 15-card sprint board with detailed descriptions and checklists that takes 90 minutes of typing becomes 30 minutes of dictation, and every card ships with enough context for someone to pick it up and start working.

Do this now: open a Trello card that has a title but no description. Press your hotkey and dictate exactly what needs to happen, who should do it, and what done looks like.