Trello

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What is Trello?

Trello organises work as boards, lists, and cards, the kanban approach to tracking tasks and projects. Keeping a board current means a lot of small manual moves: dragging cards between lists, adding checklists and labels, assigning members, leaving comments. This connection lets Fabric's assistant handle that for you, in plain language.

What Fabric's assistant can do with Trello

Once your Trello is connected, Fabric's AI assistant can act on your boards from plain-language requests.

Find things. Find a card, board, list, label, checklist, or member, by name, by ID, or by custom query, and pull card attachments or checklist items, so you can locate what you need without scanning boards.

Manage cards. Create, update, move, and archive cards; add members, labels, attachments, and checklists; add and complete checklist items; leave comments, the everyday card work that usually means clicking around.

Manage boards and lists. Create boards, lists, and labels; add members to a board; copy, close, or set up a board, the structural side of keeping projects organised.

Because you ask in your own words, you describe what should happen and the assistant maps it to the right Trello action or trigger.

You stay in control

The assistant acts only when you ask. For anything that removes or closes things, archiving or deleting a card, deleting a checklist, removing a label, closing a board, it confirms with you first, unless you've told it not to for a particular task. Finding and reading never change anything on your boards.

When something should happen regularly, you can set up a Fabric AI job that runs on a schedule, moving cards when they're due, adding a checklist to new cards, flagging stale ones, so the routine upkeep runs itself while you keep approval over anything that removes or closes.

Search your Trello from Fabric

Alongside the assistant, connecting Trello adds keyword search over your boards from Fabric's main search, so a card or board is findable by matching text in the same place you search the rest of your library, rather than hunting across boards and lists.

How people use it

Project leads keep boards moving by asking the assistant to create, move, and update cards, rather than dragging each one by hand.

Teams have card activity, a move, a due date, a new comment, trigger follow-on actions, so the board doesn't just record work but helps move it along.

Anyone tracking work in Trello can pull the card or board they need by describing it, and add cards or checklists by asking instead of clicking.

People with recurring board chores set up a scheduled or activity-triggered AI job to handle the repetitive upkeep, while keeping approval over anything destructive.

Frequently asked questions

What does the Trello connection do?

It lets Fabric's AI assistant run your Trello boards, taking actions like creating, moving, and updating cards, managing checklists, labels, and members, and creating boards and lists. It also adds keyword search over your boards in Fabric.

What can the assistant do in Trello?

It can find cards, boards, lists, and members, create, update, move, and archive cards, add members, labels, attachments, and checklists, complete checklist items, leave comments, and create boards, lists, and labels. You ask in plain language rather than choosing from a fixed list.

Does the assistant change my boards on its own?

No. It acts only when you ask, and for anything that archives, deletes, or closes it confirms with you first, unless you've deliberately told it not to for a specific task. Finding and reading change nothing.

Can I automate my boards?

Yes. A Fabric AI job can run on a schedule, for example moving due cards or adding checklists to new ones, while you keep approval over anything destructive.

Can I search my Trello boards?

Yes, by keyword, from Fabric's main search, so a card or board is findable by matching text alongside the rest of your library.

Will it archive or delete cards without asking?

No. Nothing that removes or closes things happens without your confirmation, unless you've chosen to let a specific task run without it.

Is my Trello data secure?

Everything in Fabric is encrypted in transit and at rest. The connection acts on your boards with your authorisation, and you control what it does. The details are in the privacy and security guide and Fabric's privacy commitment.

Does this work through MCP or the API?

Fabric also exposes your library and connected tools to external AI through its MCP server and API; this connection is the built-in way to have Fabric's own assistant work with your Trello.

Does Fabric work with other tools alongside Trello?

Yes. Trello is one of many connections. You can also connect Notion, Google Drive, and Gmail, and automate across many apps with Zapier. Fabric also has its own tasks and reminders and a kanban view for work you keep in Fabric itself.