Trello's email reminder system is broken (in my view); it sends email reminders the day before you specify a due date. I can imagine scenarios where this is nice, but it is very counterintuitive to me. Trello also doesn't have webhooks associated with due dates, so services like IFTTT or Zapier are unable to accomplish the functionality I want: add todoist tasks from Trello on the day they are due.

trello-todoist is a hack to add trello cards to todoist on the day that they are due. It is intended to be set up as a cronjob with a crontab entry like:

53 3 * * * trello-todoist 'trello board' 'trello username' 'todoist project'

which runs trello-todoist every morning at 3:53 a.m. By default, this adds all trello cards that are due today from board trello board of which trello username is a member as a task to the corresponding todoist project. Depending on the version of requests that is installed via python dependencies, you may also want to use PYTHONWARNINGS=ignore somewhere in your crontab to avoid being sent warnings every time the script is run.

quick start

1. install trello-todoist from pypi:

   pip install trello-todoist

2. get your trello api key and secret from here and get your oauth tokens:

   export TRELLO_API_KEY=your-key
   export TRELLO_API_SECRET=your-secret
   export TRELLO_EXPIRATION=never
   python -m trello.util
   # follow instructions

3. get your todoist api token from the todoist Settings > Account > API token.

4. place your trello credentials in a trello.json file in the repository root that looks like this:

   {
       "api_key": "your-key",
       "api_secret": "your-secret",
       "token": "your-oauth-token-key",
       "token_secret": "your-oauth-token-secret"
   }

5. place your todoist api token in a todoist.json file in the repository root that looks like this:

   {
      "token": "your-token"
   }

6. 💥 For usage instructions, see

   trello-todoist -h

development

1. instantiate virtual environment

   mkvirtualenv trello-todoist
   pip install -r requirements/python-dev

2. follow the quick start instructions above to get your trello and todoist credentials.