card collection

Trello recently converted to a much more restrictive plan for unpaid users. I'd seen all the warnings go by in e-mail: "We will put your boards* into a 'Workspace'! Really, we will! Any day now!" What they didn't mention was that the 'workspace' would make several of my collections inaccessible, and that some of the actions critical to managing them would be impossible from the phone. Oh, and the username and password I thought I had don't work any more because they're now Atlassian and Atlassian doesn't accept bare user names, only email...

Well, that ends my fifteen or so years of using Trello. So it goes.

Last night I got my data pulled off. It is exported in a truly impenetrable** JSON format, but preliminary scouting shows that there are services out there that'll read it, and worst case it's probably one line*** in Python.


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* A "board" is essentially a collection of note cards, each with a title, an optional description, possibly some comments, and possibly some attachments such as links or photos.

** folks, there's no excuse for not including whitespace.

*** not counting a page or two of "import" statements ;-}