Getting started
Tacto adds time tracking, reports and an AI assistant to Trello. Setup takes about two minutes and needs no separate account.
1. Add the Power-Up to a board
- Open a Trello board and click Power-Ups in the board header.
- Search for Tacto and press Add.
- A short welcome tour opens in five steps: the intro, the card, reports, the AI assistant and Trello access.
A Tacto button appears in the board header. Its menu has:
- Reports — your team's time across all boards;
- Running timers — who is working on this board right now, plus your timers on other boards;
- Settings — the AI assistant and your data, and for admins board access, admins, guests and payment;
- Help — this guide, support (write to us about a question, a bug or an idea) and the same tour again.
Tacto works per board: add it to every board where your team tracks time. All of them show up together in reports.
2. Allow Trello access — once
Time tracking works right away: Trello itself tells Tacto who is a member of the board, so viewers of a public board stay outside. On the last step of the tour press Grant Trello access — Trello asks you to confirm in a small window.
What access adds:
- It keeps the team list fresh. Tacto knows your workspace members and admins, so roles, guests and sharing across the workspace stay accurate.
- New cards show up right away — even before someone opens the board.
- It lets the AI assistant create, move and rename cards on your behalf.
Skipped this step? Open Settings in the Tacto menu on the board or the Power-Up menu, then AI assistant → Trello access. You can disconnect it there too. Without access the assistant cannot create, move or rename cards.
3. Log your first hour
Open any card. Below the description you'll find the Worklog section:
- press Timer to start tracking right now, or
- type how long you worked —
1h 30m,90mor1:30— add a comment and press Log time.
More about the timer, manual entries and estimates in Tracking time.
4. Open reports
Click the Tacto button in the board header → Reports. It shows your team's time on every board you can see:
- Calendar and Timeline — who worked when;
- Analytics — totals against the previous period, estimates against actual time, every entry;
- Export — CSV, Excel or PDF;
- History — edits and deletions of entries;
- Finance — clients, rates and invoices (workspace admins only).
5. Optional: connect your AI assistant
claude.ai, ChatGPT and Claude Code need no key: add a custom connector with the address https://chrono.customapp.tech/mcp, sign in with Trello and allow access. For Cursor, VS Code and scripts create a key in Settings → AI assistant. Then just tell the assistant what you worked on. Setup guide.