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Published: April 6, 2019, 9 p.m.

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I used to marvel at Star Trek episodes where the captain would talk to an-present computer, ask it questions and get answers in return. If only I could bring this technology in to my business. Well\\u2026 turns out I can!

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This is Clickstarter, I\\u2019m Dante St James. This is episode 41, and Day 7 of my daily series, April Foolproof Your Business where this month, I\\u2019ll cover a bunch of quick, useful tools, strategies, marketing methods and ideas to give your small business a shot in the arm.

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Today\\u2026 create Trello cards using your voice and Google Assistant.

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Google\\u2019s Assistant is available on almost every phone on the planet. It comes packaged with Android phones, and has, since around mid 2017, also been available on the iPhone. And while most of the time we use it to get the Big G to set timers, reminders and alarms to wake us up in the morning, thanks to the power of tools like If This Then That (or IFTTT) you can take it a whole lot further.

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You can log notes in a Google Drive spreadsheet, add songs to Spotify playlists, start playing podcasts, send a Tweet and even dictate notes to a document on your phone, computer or via a home device. And now, you can also get it to create you a new task in your Trello board with your voice. All thanks to the power of If This Then That and it\\u2019s access to the Google Assistant platform.

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If you have a Google account as well as a Trello account with an active board, you can use a free applet on IFTTT to hook the two up. In fact, go to https://ifttt.com/trello and you\\u2019ll see a range of actions you can take by voice on Trello to free up your hands and take the druge work out of constantly having to note things down in Trello - or even some other systems.

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The applet I am using all the time is Quickly Add A New Card to a Trello Board. And as it says, I can very quickly talk to Google Assistant and tell it to create a new card on my Trello board of choice, and tell it what to write on the card. I don\\u2019t need to set any advanced options on the card yet. I just need to tell it to put that card on my board to the To Do column and there it is. A task is there waiting for me when I log in and action my tasks online in Trello.

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I also have automated tasks using IFTTT that fill out a line in a spreadsheet every time that I finish a task on Trello, so I have a monthly report ready to go with the tasks that were completed for specific clients that need them.

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And if you have a task that happens every week that needs to be on your Trello board to remind you to do it each week, then you can set a recurring Trello card through IFTTT so that, say, that task each week you have to create a backup of your podcasts, gets put back in your To Do list each and every Monday even if you\\u2019ve completed it previously. Handy huh?

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But hands-down, the ability to talk to my home, my phone or my computer and put in a to-do task, has to be my favourite little trick to save a lot of typing and time.

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Got a topic this month to cover in these shorter, daily versions of the podcast? Email darwin@clickstarter.com.au or drop a message via facebook.com/clickstarter

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I\\u2019ll catch you tomorrow as we continue to help your small business to get known, get found and stay known.

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