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Never forget those weekly repetitive tasks with this handy Zap! Set up this integration to automatically create a new card in Trello every week, at a time of your choosing.

Schedule is a native Zapier app you can use for recurring tasks. Trigger an action every day of the month, every day of the week or every single day. You can also select the hour of the day. If you're a developer, this is similar to a crontab, cronjob or cron.

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Triggers at user-defined intervals (days, weeks, months)

Custom Frequency

Every Day

Every Hour

Triggers every month, on the day(s) selected.

Every Month

Triggers every week, on the day(s) selected.

Every Week

Trello is a team collaboration tool that lets you organize anything and everything to keep your projects on task.

Trello

New Board

New Card

Triggers when a Card is archived in Trello.

New Card Archived

Triggers when a Comment is added to a Card in Trello.

New Comment in Card

Triggers when there is activity in Trello.

New Activity

Triggers when a Card is moved to a List in Trello, [inside the same Board](https://zapier.com/apps/trello/help#common-problems-trello#not-triggering-on-card-moved-to-list-when-a-card-is-moved-from-another-board).

Card Moved to List

Triggers at a specified time before a card is due.

Card Due

Triggers when a Card is updated in Trello.

Card Updated

Triggers when a new checklist is created in Trello.

New Checklist

Triggers when a new label is created in Trello.

New Label

Triggers when a label is added in a Trello card.

New Label Added to Card

Triggers when a new list on a board is added.

New List

Triggers when a new member joins a board.

New Member on Board

Triggers when you get a new notification in Trello.

New Notification

Finds a label on a particular board by name.

Find Label on Board

Finds a list on a particular board by name.

Find List on a Board

Finds a checklist on a particular board or card by name.

Find Checklist

Finds a checklist item on a particular checklist by name.

Find Checklist Item

Finds a board in your Trello organization by name.

Find Board

Finds a card in your Trello organization by name, given a specified board and list. Does not search archived cards.

Find Card

Finds a member in your Trello organization by name.

Find Member

Find or Create Label

Find or Create List on a Board

Find or Create Checklist

Finds or creates a specific organization board.

Find or Create Board

Finds or creates a specific organization card.

Find or Create Card

Create Checklist Item in Card

Add Member to Board

Create Board

Adds a new card on a specific board and list.

Create Card

Archive Card

Adds one or more attachments to a specific card.

Add Attachment to Card

Adds an existing label to a specific card.

Add Label to Card

Moves a specific card to a list on a specific board.

Move Card to List

Adds one or more members to a specific card.

Add Members to Card

Update a card's name, description, due date, or position in list.

Update Card

Adds a new (or existing) checklist to a card.

Add Checklist to Card

Closes a board without permanently deleting it.

Close Board

Create Comment

Completes an existing checklist item in a card.

Complete Checklist Item in Card

Copy Board

Delete Checklist in Card

Create Label

Create List

Remove Label From Card

Create Trello cards weekly at scheduled times

If you use Trello for your to-do list and Pocket for your "read later" list, combine the best of both apps with this Pocket Trello integration and start keeping on top of your reading list.

Pocket is the best way to save articles, videos and links to view on any device, any time.

Pocket

New Archived Item

New Favorite Item

New Item

New Tagged Item

Save for Later

Create Trello cards from new tagged Pocket items

Using Trello to plan your team's projects, and OmniFocus to organize your individual tasks? Zapier can help link the two, by automatically creating new OmniFocus tasks in your inbox whenever a new card is added to your Trello account. You can even include a link to the Trello card, so you can easily jump into your team's conversation from OmniFocus.

OmniFocus is an incredible task management platform for Mac®, iPad®, and iPhone®.

OmniFocus

Creates a new task in your OmniFocus Inbox.

Create Task

Create OmniFocus tasks from new or moved Trello cards

Using Slack to talk with your team and discuss your upcoming projects? Use Zapier to easily turn your conversations into tasks in OmniFocus, so you'll never forget to do anything your team's discussed. Just save a message in Slack when it contains something you need to do, and once you turn on this integration, Zapier will automatically copy the message and add it to your OmniFocus inbox as a new task.

Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Offering instant messaging, document sharing and knowledge search for modern teams.

Slack

Triggers when a new message is posted to any public channel.

New Public Message Posted Anywhere

New Channel

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #channel you choose.

New Message Posted to Channel

Triggers when a custom emoji has been added to a team.

New Team Custom Emoji

Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your workspace.

New File

Triggers when a username or highlight word is mentioned in a public #channel.

New Mention

Triggers when a new message is found that matches the query.

New Message From Query

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #private-channel or multi-dm.

New Message Posted to Private Channel

Triggers when a Message is pushed from Slack.

New Pushed Message

Triggers when a reaction (aka reactji) is added to a message in a public #channel.

New Reaction Added

New Saved Message

Triggers when a new Slack user is created / first joins your org.

New User

Finds a Slack message using the Slack Search feature.

Find Message

Finds a user by matching against their email instead of their username.

Find User by Email

Find User by ID

Finds a user by matching against their real name instead of their username.

Find User by Name

Find User by Username

Adds a reminder for yourself or a teammate, just like the `/remind` slash command.

Add Reminder

Invite an existing User to an existing Channel. You must be a member of the channel to invite someone to it.

Invite User to Channel

Posts a message to the specific #channel you choose. Message delivery can be scheduled for later.

Send Channel Message

Sends a direct message to a user or yourself from the Slackbot. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Direct Message

Create Channel

Post a new message to a private channel you choose. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Private Channel Message

Set Channel Topic

Update basic profile fields such as name or title

Update Profile

Sets your Slack status to the given text and emoji.

Set Status

Invite a new User to your Slack workspace. Uses legacy tokens.

Invite New User

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

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