How to plan your next trip using Project Management software — a short primer

Isn’t it weird that after you learn about something, you start to see it everywhere? Like if you were in the market for a car and you wanted to buy an Audi SUV, you start seeing Audi SUVs everywhere you go. You didn’t notice them before but for some reason, you notice them now because it’s at the top of your mind.

This is something I’ve noticed with books as well — I’ll sometimes have a book in mind at a used book sale and lo and behold, it will magically show up for me to purchase. In a way, I think this speaks to how your desires can translate into real things if you put your mind to it.

As I was planning my next trip, I had heard a lot about using project management software to organize the trip. I thought, why the hell not, and as I started looking into it, I saw a number of articles pop up in my feeds talking about how to manage your trip like a project. Specifically, I have heard a lot about how Trello is a great tool for organizing trips.

For those of you that have never used Trello before, it’s a web app that acts like a big whiteboard where you can organize ‘post-it’ notes in whichever fashion you want. The post-it notes are organized into lists. And each post-it note can have additional information like attachments, comments, due dates, responsible…