The benefits of adding a Google photos ALBUM to trelllo

[PJRanson]

I use trello for many things. 

• Personal organisation
• Project management tool
• A simple CRM/Sales funnel
• Archive indexing
• GTD methodology

Etc.

I use the Google Drive Power up to reference folders in my GTD filing structure on G-Drive within cards associated to things like bank accounts, (for statements), client related references (agreements, estimates, invoices, CAD designs) and so on - it's a fairly robust holistic system that's integrated with my backend digital filing structure, and really rate Trello for it's integration with other other systems, like OneDrive and GDrive etc...

I make and fit cabinets, (amongst other things) and find Trello a great way to corral various items of content together under one list, but sometimes lists can get over-bloated with images or files, so I use cards with power-ups to externally reference content as described above, I find this a neat way to access content on the move, especially when speaking to new clients and leads. 

With this in mind, It would be really useful to have an option to enable Google photo ALBUMS - and then simply link that album to a card... 

I use Google albums to keep photographic records of projects, so being able to link those albums into Trello would be a great option. 

Does anything like this exist?

I know I can copy individual images directly into a card from my device, and that's great for the odd one or two images, but if I wanted an entire albums worth (100s of shots) then that becomes far too cumbersome.

In theory I could copy those photos to the project folder on Google Drive, but that's then doubling up on cloud storage and I'd rather not do that. 

Any ideas would be welcomed. 

Thanks. 

[Daydreamer Mike · Accepted solution]

You can link Google Albums and individual photos in the description of cards, using smartlinks.  They will also show up in the same way if you paste the link into a list. What it doesn't do, like Google Drive links is allow previews within Trello:

[PJRanson]

Nope... that’s perfect - thanks Mike - I’m surprised I didn’t even try that... 

#TripleFacepalm

[PJRanson]

Can I quickly resurrect this thread...? 

I've just noticed that my shared urls to google albums on all my cards that have them, has stopped working... 

I'm assuming it's at google's end? - or maybe I've absentmindedly turned off sharing somewhere - all the urls are hitting googles generic "404 that's an error / that's all we know" page... 

Anyone shed some light on what I'm doing wrong, or if there's a known problem I missed the memo for...

also, the preview for the link no longer works neither, which presumably is connected?

cheers 

[PJRanson]

@Daydreamer Mike - seeing as you were so helpful last time - any ideas on what might be causing this?

I noticed a recent (as in today) link to an album works, (in that it opens and doesn't hit the 404 buffers) but, the preview fails to display on the card, like your example above and how it's been behaving until recently. 

???

[PJRanson]

Okay... I think I've found a way through.

I have a hunch the issue is with google and them changing the url's - so they no longer link correctly. 

Also, partly my fault, as I was simply copying the url from the browser and pasting that into my card - I had assumed this would be a fixed url, but it seems not - I've just 'created a share link' from within the google photos browser application and used that instead and the link AND preview both work and display in the card description... 

Frustratingly, I'm going to have to methodically go through all my cards with the older (broken) links to albums, locate the album in the google photo browser app and create the requisite 'share' link and then copy/paste it back into the relevant description.

Great.

[Daydreamer Mike]

Hi @PJRanson 

I am glad you found a solution, even if it is imperfect.  I should have highlighted to use the share links in the original reply 

[PJRanson]

Thanks yeah. It just worked so I was committed to using that solution, obviously Google must have made some recent backend changes to how they were parsing their URLs - hopefully the share links are more static, one would hope so. 

Thanks again. 

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