Is there a URL I can use to add a card directly?

[Sam Watkins]

I often have ideas while I'm working, and want to make a note of them very quickly without losing my train of thought.

So I want to bind a keyboard shortcut to open a URL, which would add a card in the "Ideas" list in my current Trello project.

But Trello is a fancy pants app, and seems to use JavaScript rather than URLs.

Is there some URL I could use to directly add a new card to a certain list?

This is my number one requirement for a planning app, that there's a way for me to add a note very quickly and efficiently, from a single keypress.

(For Jira, I was able to find the URL for an outdated user interface to add a ticket, I used keypad plus to add a task, and keypad minus to log a bug.)

Maybe I can find some hack to do this by writing a browser extension or something.

[Silvia]

Hi @Sam Watkins 

Have you looked at Forms? It's a power-up that helps you create a form and then submissions are sent into a list on your Trello board. A link is available for any form you publish. 

You get 10 free submissions in Forms to try out a convenient way to turn ideas into Trello cards :) 

[Sam Watkins]

I searched for "save to Trello" and found this: https://trello.com/en-AU/add-card

There's a locale-neutral version here: https://trello.com/add-card

It's an official mini-page and bookmarklet which works nicely to save a page to Trello, almost exactly what I was looking for.

It remembers the last board and list that I used.

Now I need to figure out how to attach it to a keyboard shortcut, there's an article here that looks promising: https://www.groovypost.com/howto/add-shortcut-keys-chrome-bookmarks/

I can set a favicon for it using this dirty hack: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/521040/how-to-have-favicon-icon-set-when-bookmarklet-dragged-to-toolbar

[Sam Watkins]

It's still not quite what I want, as I would like to have the option to add a card without including a link to some page. But it's okay I guess.

[Sunny Ape]

Hello @Sam Watkins 

Trello has a REST API with a Create a new card endpoint, so you can write your browser extension to interact with it.

[Sam Watkins]

I found and tried using a couple of existing Chrome extensions, but they won't authorize with Trello. For example, this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/add-to-trello/engmocckoohpopiacajolojeobefbcec 

Also we can't create standalone API keys any longer, they need to be attached to a "power up" which is annoying.