Trello Birds-eye

Minimalize the Trello board interface for better overview

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Trello Birds-eye is a minimalist Chrome extension designed to streamline your Trello board's interface, offering a clean and efficient birds-eye view. By reducing bulky elements such as borders, margins, paddings, and hiding card cover images, it increases actual content visibility by more than 50%, making it easier to manage boards with numerous cards.

This extension adds a convenient toggle button on the Trello toolbar. It also enhances usability with features like showing card member icons, resizing avatars properly, and improving label alignments. Trello Birds-eye aims to declutter your workspace, improving your productivity and workflow clarity. It is open-source and regularly updated, ensuring compatibility and performance enhancements.

By:: laander
Users:: 5,000+
Rating:: 4.00
(39)
Version:: 1.2.2 (Last updated: 2021-10-31)
Creation date:: 2019-01-14
Risk:: Low risk impact Low risk likelihood
Permissions:: storage
https://trello.com/*
Size:: 2.35M
Email:: *****@laander.com
Full description:: See detailed description
Source:: Chrome Web Store
Updated:: 14 hours ago

Ranking

# 13,548 ▲ 82

Other rankings

#3478 in Workflow & Planning ▲ 3 #272 in board keyword 23 ▲ 1 #300 in card keyword 20 ▲

User reviews

Users initially found Trello Birds-eye very useful for compacting Trello boards and improving task scanning efficiency. However, multiple reviews report that the extension has stopped working recently, especially after Trello updates, causing major functionality issues. Problems also include visual glitches like invisible list names and conflicts with other Power-Ups. Despite these issues, users appreciate its concept and usefulness if it were updated and fixed.

Pros

Helps to compact Trello board view, saving screen space.
Makes scanning and prioritizing Trello tasks easier and faster.
Provides a birds-eye view that reduces the need for scrolling and zooming adjustments.
Generally does what it promises and is useful for users with many cards.
Users appreciate the concept and find it handy compared to default Trello views.

Cons

Extension stopped working for many users after recent updates, particularly around 2023-2024.
Causes issues with visibility, such as list names turning white and labels overlapping with avatars.
Conflicts with other Trello Power-Ups, preventing some from working properly.
Lack of updates and fixes have left it non-functional on some platforms and devices.
Limited customization options requested, such as hiding images or design improvements.

Recent reviews

We really enjoyed this extension but seemed stopped working. Please help update it please.

Xing Zhang, 2024-12-21

Same issue for me - it has stopped working - can anyone help?

Phil Day, 2024-04-07

Ya no funciona (febrero del 2024). Es una lástima que no funcione, porque parecía útil.

Andree Olazaran, 2024-02-14

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Trello Birds-eye requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

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Risk likelihood

Trello Birds-eye has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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