

“You start using these apps for one thing, and then it creeps into other areas of your life,” says Jo O’Connell, who lives in Bournemouth with her husband and two children. Task management apps such as Trello have digitised the old-fashioned to-do list becoming shared and always accessible repositories for everything from what’s needed from the cornershop, to the plumber’s phone number, to the login details for the electricity bill to the stray thought you want to share later.

Luke used to use Excel and has tried lots of different list tools over the years, but “for a bunch of geeky technical reasons”, Trello is now his favourite.

He says it’s “the best issue-tracking software out there for small projects”, a category in which he includes our personal life. My tool of choice used to be pen and paper before Luke introduced me to Trello.
