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How to Use Trello to Manage Your Bar Study What is Trello? Trello is a FREE web-based application that lets you manage your study time and display your progress visually. Why do we recommend Trello to bar students? At the Bar Exam Toolbox, we love Trello. It helps us keep track of a wide variety of projects. When multiple people are using a board, they can communicate with each other, move things around, and avoid duplicating work. When just one person is using a board, he or she can keep track of what has been done and what still needs to be done moving forward. With Trello, you can create cards for individual tasks and move them to different lists to track your progress. You can also create checklists and add due dates for increased accountability, which is hugely important when you are studying for the bar exam. Getting started with Trello Signing up for Trello is easy! Just go to: https://trello.com/ , click "sign up", and create your account! If you want help getting started creating your board, the Trello team has a video that may help with the basics: http://help.trello.com/article/899-getting-started-video-demo . Once you’ve watched the video, take some time to look through their other help topics. There are so many amazing options for your study board. What should you put on your study board? 1. Your study schedule. We have recommended study schedules available to you in Word document format. Once you choose and, as needed, customize your study schedule, you can create a checklist that will help you hold yourself accountable during your bar study period. All you have to do is create a list for your study schedule, then create cards for each week of your bar study period. This Trello article talks about how to add a checklist to a card: http://help.trello.com/article/737-adding-checklists-to-cards BarExamToolbox.com Questions? Email [email protected]
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How to Use Trello to Manage Your Bar Study
What is Trello?
Trello is a FREE webbased application that lets you manage your study time and display your progress visually.
Why do we recommend Trello to bar students?
At the Bar Exam Toolbox, we love Trello. It helps us keep track of a wide variety of projects. When multiple people are using a board, they can communicate with each other, move things around, and avoid duplicating work. When just one person is using a board, he or she can keep track of what has been done and what still needs to be done moving forward. With Trello, you can create cards for individual tasks and move them to different lists to track your progress. You can also create checklists and add due dates for increased accountability, which is hugely important when you are studying for the bar exam.
Getting started with Trello
Signing up for Trello is easy! Just go to: https://trello.com/, click "sign up", and create your account! If you want help getting started creating your board, the Trello team has a video that may help with the basics: http://help.trello.com/article/899gettingstartedvideodemo.
Once you’ve watched the video, take some time to look through their other help topics. There are so many amazing options for your study board.
What should you put on your study board?
1. Your study schedule.We have recommended study schedules available to you in Word document format. Once you choose and, as needed, customize your study schedule, you can create a checklist that will help you hold yourself accountable during your barstudy period. All you have to do is create a list for your study schedule, then create cards for each week of your bar study period.
This Trello article talks about how to add a checklist to a card: http://help.trello.com/article/737addingcheckliststocards
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The article is useful, but we've discovered an additional tip to make this process go much faster. Instead of adding checklist items onebyone, you can copy an entire list from your study schedule and paste it into the text box (see screenshot). Each bullet point in your list will show up as a checklist item! If you are a fulltime studier, we recommend having a separate checklist for each day ofthe week. If you are a parttime studier, a checklist for each week may be more effective for you.
2. Problem areas. As you study and do those allimportant practice exams, you will start to realize where your problem areas are. Keep a list on your Trello board! Each problematic topic can get its own card, and you can make notes to yourself as you spend time on it, or even use labels to indicate how much help you need with it.
3. Helpful handouts and blog posts. Anything that helps you study can go on yourTrello board. Keep a separate list for documents, websites, or articles that you want to refer back to. You can attach documents and links to separate Trello cards easily. If you have trouble figuring it out, you can look here for directions: http://help.trello.com/article/769addingattachmentstocards
Tip: If there's a handout or blog post that you want to review halfway through your study period, give that document its own card, then set a due date! Trello will remind you to go back to that card and review whatever information you flagged for yourself.
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Another tip: if you want to be sure that you get notifications from Trello, then subscribe to your board. You can do that by going to the menu at the far right of the screen, clicking "more" and then clicking "subscribe".
4. Practice exam drafts. As we discuss in another handout, doing practice examsis only half the battle. You have to review and evaluate your work. As you do these exams, attach them to your Trello board, especially the ones that you think will be useful for future study purposes. You'll always know where to find them!
Tip: if you want to indicate what you've done with a draft, or how critical you think it is to your bar study, you might want to consider using labels (really, these are
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useful for many of your lists). You can colorcode the cards in such a way that you can easily figure out what needs your immediate attention – and you can editthe labels so that you can easily see what each color means!
5. Additional study materials. Remember, you can link to Dropbox, or even to past exams in the Brainy Bar Bank. If there's anything you want to be able to refer to at a moment's notice, create a card for it on your Trello board!
How many boards should I have?
If you are going to post a lot of material for each bar subject, you may want to consider one master board that includes your study schedule and general handouts and links, and then a separate board for each bar subject. You can
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even create a template for yourself, and then copy it to other boards for each topic. http://help.trello.com/article/802copyingcardslistsorboards
You can then link your "topic" boards to your master board: http://help.trello.com/article/824sharinglinkstocardsandboards
For some people, multiple Trello boards is too much to deal with. Those people will want one board to organize everything. For others, it will be the best way to keep things compartmentalized and clear. You make the decision that works bestfor you.
And, just in case you want a little extra help, here’s one possible format you could use for your board.
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