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Gmail + Trello by Gmelius — Sync emails with Trello and manage Trello boards in Gmail
Keep your teams in sync across the galaxy of apps with Gmelius. 🚀
Our 2-way integration between Gmail and Trello helps you complete team missions without constant tab-switching - manage your emails from Trello and integrate your Trello projects into Gmail.
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Hi Hunters! 👋
Thank you @katmanalac for hunting us!
Florian here, founder of Gmelius. We are super excited to launch Gmelius for Trello today, the first 2-way integration that synchronises in real-time Gmail and Trello. 🚀
What does 2-way integration mean? Put simply, every action you do on a platform will be reflected on another platform, and vice-versa. You can easily transform your Gmail labels into visual project boards, share them with your teams and open collaboration to external partners. On the other hand, you can import existing Trello boards into Gmail, and monitor those right from your inbox.
Why this Gmail <> Trello integration?
With Covid-19 and the massive collaboration challenges it created, we saw a significant portion of our users, regardless of their roles (e.g., executive, manager, teammate), struggling to monitor and act upon their team's daily work.
Speaking with them over support emails or onboarding calls helped us identify two painpoints, (1) workload distribution, and (2) data dispersion. Regarding point 1), what was really interesting to notice is that the pandemy acted as a catalyst in the way teams were proactively trying to organize their work and distribute the tasks... often moving forward with the Agile methodology and the kanban framework as it's easy understand and very visual. Given point 1) and following point 2), we then decided to double down our efforts on our own Gmail kanban boards and design a strong and full integration with Trello.
What is Gmelius? 🤔 [pronounced Gmail-ius where "melius" means "better" in Latin]
Gmelius is a collaboration platform that integrates directly inside your Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) and your team's daily apps. We offer our users a way to fix data dispersion by connecting all their major tools together. Your teammates can still work from their favourite apps (whether it's Gmail, Slack, Trello for instance) but your data is not more siloed and your company always gets a full and real-time view of your processes.
More specifically, with Gmelius you get shared inboxes that work in Gmail and Slack / project and account management that lives in and links Gmail, Google Calendar and Trello / a meeting scheduler that works for Google Meet, Google Calendar and Zoom. On top of our unique collaboration architecture, we offer a complete workflow intelligence suite that makes it possible to automate your team's processes and remove as much grunt work as possible.
TLDR; when you become a Gmelian, you don't need to move everything to an all-in-one workspace, train your teams to use it, and create another data-silo that will prove to be a migration nightmare at time plus X.
In 2020, we believe all companies adopted a kind of definitive stack of tools for their main daily workflows. Email will be powered by Google or Microsoft, CRM will be SalesForce or HubSpot, Project Management will be Trello, Asana or Monday... and so on and so forth. Gmelius is the bundler of your current stack that powers up cross-channel and cross-team collaboration thanks to dual-way integrations and smart workflow automation rules.
The whole team is looking forward to welcoming you aboard, and hear your feedback. Do let us know what you think and join us on this journey to help shape the Future of Work... Note that there are many exciting updates in the pipeline, including the release of our public API in a few weeks. I invite you to subscribe to get early access to our public API.
Last but not least, we're happy to offer you a $250 credit on all our paid plans to teams of 3 or more until October 31!
Master teamwork, not another tool!
— Florian and the Gmelius Jedis
@katmanalac @florianbersier I don't agree that Asana, Trello, Monday, etc. are the long term answer for work management. Those pure play companies will lose out in time to Google and Microsoft who have built work management into their business operating systems foundations. Why would companies want to pay extra? And users can avoid moving out of context to a pure play work management tool, too. Yes, your 2-way sync helps avoid that moving in and out of context, somewhat, but users will still have operate in both contexts.
Alternatively, I think there is a place for spreadbases -- Airtable, Notion, Coda, etc -- to carve out an adjacent market space to work management, but those platforms offer a different approach to flexibility and extensibility that pure play work managment tools don't.
However, I agree that a large number of people today need the sort of solution Gmelius has announced with Trello 2-way syncing. I just disagree about the medium- and long-term.
Thanks @stowe_boyd for this great viewpoint and perspective!
I fully agree that Google (and Microsoft) will cover a larger number of workflow needs as time passes... and that is the very reason why we focus and integrate with Google Workspace in the first place.
On the other hand, I remain convinced that the very vast majority of Google-powered companies will keep a certain number of key "satellite" applications in order to simplify their day-to-day team workflows. The question is which ones will not be Schumpeter-ed by the giants. To me, the beauty of apps like Trello lies in their simplicity and easiness of adoption. Airtable, Notion do have a higher barrier of entry for teams and, because of that, could be the ones replaced by Google or Microsoft equivalent tools in the long run.
@katmanalac @florianbersier This is a great feature addition to Gmelius, but please don't refer to yours as the first 2 way integration. I've been doing this for a few years and launched public signup with full Google security verification a couple of months ago https://www.producthunt.com/post... I have products for both individual and shared email. I don't mean to hijack your launch, but I also don't want you to make a false claim that yours is the first product that allows people to use Trello as a Gmail client.
Hey @iaindooley. Thanks for sharing. To clarify, by "2-way" integration, we mean the possibility to run a Gmail label or email address from Trello **AND** a way to monitor and manage a Trello board right from a Gmail label or Gmelius board in Gmail.
What BenkoDesk offers would be considered as a 1-way integration following our semantics as it makes it possible to manage an email address from Trello but does not offer a way to view and manage Trello boards in Gmail.
Gmelius is a no-brainer. If you're part of a company with multiple departments, each with team members that use different tools - there really is not a better way to get work done. Email with tons of great inbox features, Slack, Trello, Zoom - integrated into my inbox and synced across our entire company.
@ermi_gio Thanks a lot, Ermias! And there are even more exciting integrations to come ;)
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