piccamo Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 <p>Hello everyone,</p><p> I have been enjoying the public beta for TEW 2020. In the past I have tried Notepad++, Excel, and hand-written notes to organize my thoughts, goals, and booking decisions. I have found them all to be annoying and fiddly to use. I also use Trello for many of my personal projects and so decided to give it a shot for TEW. It has been wonderful.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>What is Trello?</strong></span></p><p> <a href="https://postimg.cc/K4nrF5Vc" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="1-Overview.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/CM2vGPs8/1-Overview.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> Trello is a free productivity app where you can organize tasks into lists. Each list contains tasks that can be dragged from one list to another. This is helpful to move tasks from "To Do" to "Doing" to "Done". Other lists may not need to be dragged anywhere and will just stay in their own lane the entire time. Within each tasks, you can add a description, labels, and checklists.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><strong>Using Trello</strong></span></p><p> I have organized my TCW Trello into 6 lists: <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Tournaments & Titles</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Problems, Notes, & To Do</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Doing</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Done</span>, <span style="text-decoration:underline;">2020 Champions</span>, and <span style="text-decoration:underline;">Time Decline</span>. This is all information I either want to see at a glance or I want to be able to remember later.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Tournaments & Titles</span></span></p><p> <a href="https://postimg.cc/HVgz7N57" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="2-Tournaments-Titles.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/fT3r1nR5/2-Tournaments-Titles.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> Tournaments and titles is basically just my list of championships. I like to have a lot of tournaments throughout the year and a good number of midcard titles to feud over so it's important for me to know which titles are static, which tournaments I need to start booking, and what levels those titles are at. I use four colors for my title levels: Dark blue for main event, green for uppercard, orange for midcard, and red for undercard. This saves me a lot of time from going back and forth within TEW's menus and since Trello is a web-app, I can think about these things wherever I am.</p><p> </p><p> If I need more information, I can just dig into the title description by clicking on one of my cards in the list.</p><p> <a href="https://postimages.org/" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="3-Title-Description.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/bNKBhCGP/3-Title-Description.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> </p><p> As you can see, I have my own personal rules for the championship and also the labels menu open.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Problems, Notes, & To Do</span></span></p><p> <a href="https://postimg.cc/RWPLyVYc" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="4-Problems-Notes-To-Do.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/wBz4t1cb/4-Problems-Notes-To-Do.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> This is kind of my main thinking area. This is where I come up with my long-term booking ideas like "What do I do if I can get Tommy Cornell to come back?" or "I took a bad bet on trying to get Texas Pete back on track". They act as reminders, seeds of future storylines, potential tag teams, and people I should consider pushing. When I am ready to tackle one of those things, I drag the card over to my "doing" column.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Doing</span></span></p><p> <a href="https://postimg.cc/PLPQjnG0" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="5-Active-Things.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/25xcnC0j/5-Active-Things.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> This is my list of currently ongoing storylines, contract offers that are on the table, and tournaments. One of the great things about Trello is how much detail you can add to a single card.</p><p> <a href="https://postimg.cc/n9YvkH79" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="6-Storyline-View.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/L5GNm58D/6-Storyline-View.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> Here, I've added the storyline description, a checklist of everyone who is involved in the storyline, specific labels like tag team and midcard, and a checklist of everything I have done and planned to do and when.</p><p> </p><p> This is a lot like pre-booking except I get to have a record in the same place where I am planning the storyline so I don't accidentally do the same thing over and over again and I can see where I'm going. The checklists are not static - I can add to them on the fly as I think of other things. Normally, I only plan out the matches for the events I plan to have in the storyline and only the TV shows leading up to that event.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Done</span></span></p><p> <a href="https://postimages.org/" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="7-Recently-Finished.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/2ytX3T24/7-Recently-Finished.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> My Done list is the things that I have recently completed. Here, you can see my recent signings, a tag-team I just put together, and a storyline that finished at Malice in Wonderland. I like to keep them in Done for a while so I don't forget about them and end up with repeat booking or overlooking a newly-signed worker. When I don't need them anymore, I can archive each card.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">2020 Champions</span></span></p><p> <a href="https://postimages.org/" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="8-2020-Champions.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/T2NskYfp/8-2020-Champions.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> I plan to book King of Kings as a tournament involving only those who have been champions in the past year in any major promotion. This will include tournament wins. It's also nice to see who I have given championships to lately. Within the card, I can keep track of which championships the person won, though I doubt I'll have many instances of individuals winning different championships in a given year.</p><p> </p><p> <span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Time Decline</span></span></p><p> <a href="https://postimages.org/" rel="external nofollow"><img alt="10-Time-Decline.png" data-src="https://i.postimg.cc/VknHLqMC/10-Time-Decline.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></a></p><p> </p><p> I know Time Decline was taken out of TEW 2020, but I like to keep track of who is on the down-slope of their career. I color-coded it based on their performances - green means 50s and above, yellow means 40s - 50s, and below 40 will be red. Basically, I look at time decline as putting a time limit on pushing workers. Clearly most of my older workers are still fine and will still get championship opportunities, but Nate Johnson being on the decline helped me think up my future storyline of Hawkins cleaning house on The Syndicate when he fails to unseat Aaron Andrews.</p><p> </p><p> Anyway, I hope you find Trello useful in your booking. Have fun!</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyretic Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 This looks like it could be useful. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the heads up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaded Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 This is AMAZING; thank you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Roguey Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Heavily endorse this post, Trello is a godsend not only for this but for getting mod workflow in a good order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Lyrium Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 This might be the greatest post of all time, both for TEW and general productivity. Thanks for making me aware of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foolinc Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 Fantastic post. OneNote (and some Excel) has worked for me, but it's always good to see someone post another way to organize their own notes. Mind if I post a link to this in my diary, Foolinc explores TEW 2020 (and so can you)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhd1 Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 As MHero mentioned, Trello is great for mod making too, particularly if working as a team with several members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piccamo Posted April 30, 2020 Author Share Posted April 30, 2020 This looks like it could be useful. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the heads up. This is AMAZING; thank you!! This might be the greatest post of all time, both for TEW and general productivity. Thanks for making me aware of it. Thanks. I hope you find it useful. Heavily endorse this post, Trello is a godsend not only for this but for getting mod workflow in a good order. As MHero mentioned, Trello is great for mod making too, particularly if working as a team with several members. I agree. It's basically a Kanban board. I use it for other projects where I need to track a lot of tasks. Fantastic post. OneNote (and some Excel) has worked for me, but it's always good to see someone post another way to organize their own notes. Mind if I post a link to this in my diary, Foolinc explores TEW 2020 (and so can you)? I'm glad you have some other tools that work for you. Feel free to share this anywhere you like. I just hope people can get some use out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markw Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 This is pure genius. Why I’ve never adopted these work tools for TEW or for that matter FM I have no idea, but will do now. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makhai Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 While this looks cool, I think I'll just stick to good old word pad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BossHoss Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 I'm going to give it a shot. I currently use the app sticky notes. But it get's messing with sticky notes all over my desktop. This looks like it could help organize better and I can probably end up using both. Also yes always sign the Ring Generals!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markw Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 As MHero mentioned, Trello is great for mod making too, particularly if working as a team with several members. Can we get a Trello Board based Thunderverse teaser? (Or even just give me access to it, I won't tell anyone) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomnipotent Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 piccamo, is there a way to submit that as a Trello template? The way you have this organized is really smooth, and I think it'd be nice to be able to start a game up and plug plans right into a pre-made template. EDIT: Nevermind, went ahead and made one. Took a few liberties with a few things, but you can copy this template for each new save you start: https://trello.com/b/HFT9XwbD/tew-template/thombutler1/recommend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonafide_Bluffa Posted April 30, 2020 Share Posted April 30, 2020 i use trello a lot as a developer but it has honestly never crossed my mind to use it for TEW. good idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piccamo Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 piccamo, is there a way to submit that as a Trello template? The way you have this organized is really smooth, and I think it'd be nice to be able to start a game up and plug plans right into a pre-made template. EDIT: Nevermind, went ahead and made one. Took a few liberties with a few things, but you can copy this template for each new save you start: https://trello.com/b/HFT9XwbD/tew-template/thombutler1/recommend That looks more useful than mine. Nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayelek Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 That looks pretty slick. When I take the time to get it all set up, I use AirTable, and that has a Kanban (Trello style) view, I may see how poking around with that works next time I can sit down with the game. Thanks for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody316 Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 That's another program I hav to add to my TEW session 😂 I was using Excel for my planning but it's not really set up for that So my new set up will be: Excel - roster overview and I like to have each person's average match and angle ratings which Excel good for One note - writing my shows up - for personal use (I enjoy writing my shows out in depth as gets me immersed in my game) or for a diary if I ever get round to doing one Trello - storyline planning I'm starting to think I need to slim this down 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gord Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 That's another program I hav to add to my TEW session 😂 I was using Excel for my planning but it's not really set up for that So my new set up will be: Excel - roster overview and I like to have each person's average match and angle ratings which Excel good for One note - writing my shows up - for personal use (I enjoy writing my shows out in depth as gets me immersed in my game) or for a diary if I ever get round to doing one Trello - storyline planning I'm starting to think I need to slim this down 😂 I use Excel for everything, but it isn't great for random notes or thoughts that I get every now and again, and your proposed setup looks tempting. However, I don't want to use multiple applications for this game because it'll make it harder to keep up with everything, so I think I'll just stick with Excel for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Collin Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 <blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="woody316" data-cite="woody316" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="48572" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That's another program I hav to add to my TEW session <span class="ipsEmoji">😂</span><p> </p><p> I was using Excel for my planning but it's not really set up for that So my new set up will be:</p><p> Excel - roster overview and I like to have each person's average match and angle ratings which Excel good for</p><p> One note - writing my shows up - for personal use (I enjoy writing my shows out in depth as gets me immersed in my game) or for a diary if I ever get round to doing one</p><p> Trello - storyline planning</p><p> </p><p> I'm starting to think I need to slim this down <span class="ipsEmoji">😂</span></p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> This is the same as me except I use Trello for writing too. If you have the show as the list and the match as the card you can write about the match in the description section.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cappyboy Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 I've been using The Guide for years. and gushed to anybody who'd listen about that little app. This Trello looks like it may take things to the next level. Thanks for shouting it out, Piccamo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocland Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 <p><img alt="34QzfwhS" data-src="https://postimg.cc/34QzfwhS" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p><p> Trello is legit. I've been using it for a while and truthfully I don't remember how I handled playing these games without it. Lol.</p> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BossHoss Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I started using it based on the advice here. Excellent. No turning back now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad Collin Posted May 6, 2020 Share Posted May 6, 2020 I can recommend adding covers to the cards: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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