To be clear I don't have to submit weekly TPS reports. We do have weekly kiwis, GTD advocates a weekly review, and I have found that having a summary of what I've completed lends itself to a sense of accomplishment. I recently started using a very simple Trello board to capture and track what I'm working on. I decided to automate the weekly review. Why?

• Start using technologies that I should be more familiar with (Trello API, Python, Github, Markdown)
• Help keep a log of what I've been working on.
• At a glance see how many cards have cases (they should all have cases)
• I never have to answer the question what should/could/might I work on NOW

So I wrote this script. I ended up using the Trolly library since I didn't feel like re-writing an interface to the API. I did find that it is inefficent to get boards/lists by name. The script isn't perfect and assumes a very specific workflow, but it was fun to write.

• We are using fastbugz style URLs and the 5th position is the case number
• The board in question has unique list names
• The script runs on a day of the week in question. (so the email title looks good)

• gmail doesn't display markdown :(
• deal with labels and dropped
• figure out when and where we need the client object

mb-tps.py [-h] [-v] [--apikey APIKEY] [--token TOKEN] [--verbose]
                [--debug DEBUG] [--board BOARD] [--list LIST] [--email EMAIL]
                [--config CONFIG] [--noarchive] [--nextList NEXTLIST]
                [--todoList TODOLIST] [--nomove]

Some testing with the trello API.

optional arguments:
    -h, --help           Show this help message and exit
    -v, --version        Show program's version number and exit
    --apikey APIKEY      The Trello API Key.
    --token TOKEN        The Trello auth token
    --verbose            The script will tell you what it is doing
    --debug DEBUG        Set the debugging level
    --board BOARD        The ID of the board to use
    --list LIST          The name of the list to use
    --email EMAIL        The email address to send the report to
    --config CONFIG      The location of a configfile
    --noarchive          Do not archive the done items
    --nextList NEXTLIST  The list that holds the next up items
    --todoList TODOLIST  The list that holds the next up items
    --nomove             Do not move cards around