Personal planning/prioritisation tool
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One of the GTD principles is that you should have ONE INBOX for all the tasks.
I am trying to emulate it using Trello.
I created a dashboard called "GitLab delivery flow" with some lists: Icebox, Todo, Doing, Today, Done
It is eventually consistent. I am trying to update it at least twice a week. Once I have everything I need to work on "put on the same table", I am able to prioritise it and to plan my week/day accordingly. Sometimes I do a rough estimation in SomewhatPoint(or Story points, if you like) using dots in titles: ○○●, ○●●, ●●●, but it is totally optional.
The actual idea is to have similar tool built in into GitLab. I am not sure about details of implementation, cause it can be built both on top of todos and issues. Maybe it should include both.
The outcome of this tool should be a chain of things you are going to work on.
Again, no collaboration. This should be a personal tool. And it should include items from all projects. It is not about having multiple boards per project.
If everybody on a project is using this feature, outcomes might be interesting in terms of Project management. It would be possible to apply principles of TOC here, find bottlenecks, and maybe even roughly predict when something is about to be done. Unresolved todo means that something needs to be done by someone else, before you could continue working on your issue. Number in the queue of that todo in that person personal planning tools can give you an idea, how soon that is going to be resolved.
Imagine, you ask something somebody for something(which you expect to be done in 2 days), but then you see that your item has a number 22 in the person's queue. This information might make you changing your mind about asking that person for it.
Queue length(maybe combined with items' priorities somehow) might be even a public metric for every person in organisation, and could indicate that someone is overloaded and might need some help.
I don't see it as a well defined feature yet. But I think there is something to discuss here.