Planner v Calendar (and PowerUp)

[Nils Geylen]

[Updates in comment]

Ten years into Trello but now I'm confused.

Since it's here, I'm trying the new Planner (w/Inbox) and I might find some use for them. I created a specific To-do board to collect and test.

What confuses me though is:

• adding a due date to a card on my To-do board does not reflect in the Planner
• adding a "Focus" (?) item in the Planner does not add that to my board
• dragging a Focus item from the Planner to a list isn't possible
• reversely: dragging a card to the Planner works, but
  • if the card had a due date, it disregards that
  • if the card did not have a due date, it does not copy the Planner date as due on the card

I suppose that's all expected behaviour?

I've also...

• enabled my Trello calendar URL and imported it into GCal. That now shows up there;
• and to get GCal items into my Planner, I've also enabled that integration

But then there's my board's calendar view...

That shows cards with a due date, but not items in the Planner, whether

• a created Focus
• a dragged card
• and obviously not a GCal read-only item.

I've watched Trello's Tour video but I'm not too sure I'm doing this right.

It all seems very complicated, and currently I'm not seeing how this improves anything--for me at least. I'm no doubt missing some practical use case or still have to achieve a deeper understanding. 

I've not even started looking at Atlas or Confluence.

Oh, and what about the Power-Up? I think I used to have that enabled once, but did it get integrated in Trello a couple years back? Would it still do something for me today, on Premium? It's "figuring things out time" now.

Would love to hear new ideas and how people have changed or expanded their planning workflow now.

[Nils Geylen]

This post already answers a lot about the purpose of Planner and Calendar: https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Trello-questions/Re-New-Planner-and-Calendar-Power-Up-not-able-to-merge/qaq-p/3058190/comment-id/117053#M117053

I may not be the right target for Planner; I rarely have urgent/immediate to-do's for the day. I benefit more from a wider view across weeks, months even and that's not what Planner is for.