One of my new favourite productivity tools

I'm currently working with some smart people who aren't shy to self identify as geeks and nerds. One of them introduced me to a tool that has now become indispensable at work.

Trello.com is an electronic version of the old fashioned whiteboard in the office. Except its much more portable, it integrates with dropbox and it sends you email reminders of tasks due. And its free! I use it to:

* Manage task lists with evaluation teams  - task cards move across three lists: to do, doing, done.
* Keep track of data flows  - each type of data gets a card that moves across lists like: to administer, administering, received back, initial quality control done, to capturing, capturing done, data quality control done, added to master database
* I imagine it can work pretty well for keeping track of action points between meetings.

Its not quite as cute as this lego calendar that syncs with google calendar, but it comes close. Here is a description of trello by Mashable.