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Milanote vs Trello: What are the differences?

Introduction

Milanote and Trello are both popular project management tools that help users organize their tasks, projects, and ideas. However, there are key differences between these two platforms that set them apart in terms of features and functionality.

  1. Interface and Visual Presentation: One significant difference between Milanote and Trello lies in their interface and visual presentation. Milanote offers a more visually appealing and flexible interface, allowing users to create and organize their content on a virtual whiteboard with unlimited space. Trello, on the other hand, follows a more structured and card-based approach, focusing on simplicity and ease of use.

  2. Workflow and Collaboration: Milanote places a greater emphasis on collaboration and offers a more robust set of features for working in teams. It allows real-time collaboration, where multiple users can work simultaneously on the same board. Milanote also offers more advanced sharing options, such as the ability to invite team members with different permission levels. In contrast, while Trello does support collaboration, its features are more basic compared to Milanote, making it more suitable for individual or small-scale projects.

  3. Task Management and Customization: Trello excels in its task management capabilities, offering a wide range of features to track and manage tasks. Users can create checklists, set due dates, assign tasks to team members, and add labels and attachments to cards. Trello also allows for extensive customization of workflows with various power-ups and integrations. Milanote, on the other hand, focuses more on visual organization and does not offer as many task management features as Trello.

  4. Media and Rich Content: Milanote excels in handling rich media content, such as images, videos, links, and even PDF files. Users can easily drag and drop media files onto their boards, making it a great choice for creative projects and visual brainstorming. While Trello also supports attachments, it is more text-oriented, and handling media content is not as seamless and visually appealing as in Milanote.

  5. Pricing and Accessibility: Milanote offers a free plan with limited features, while its paid plans are more expensive compared to Trello's pricing tiers. Trello, on the other hand, offers a free plan with generous limits, making it more accessible for individuals and small teams. Trello's paid plans also provide a good balance of features and affordability, catering to a wider user base.

  6. Mobile Apps: Both Milanote and Trello offer mobile apps for on-the-go access and management of tasks and projects. However, Milanote's mobile app lacks some features available on the web version, while Trello's mobile app provides a seamless experience with all essential features available on both web and mobile platforms.

In summary, Milanote differentiates itself from Trello with its visually appealing interface, emphasis on collaboration, rich media handling, while Trello offers a more structured task management approach, affordability, and a seamless mobile experience.

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Max Stuart
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Ivan Begtin
Founder - Dateno, Director - NGO "Informational Culture" / Ambassador - OKFN Armenia at Infoculture · | 5 upvotes · 223.2K views

Both Asana and Trello support Kanban style project tracking. Trello is Kanban-only project management, knowledge management, actually card-management tools. Asana is much more complex, supports different project management approaches, well integrated and helpful for any style/type project.

We choose Asana finally, but still some projects kept in Trello

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Abhay Vashishtha

Procezo is an excellent free-for-life task managing tool with several benefits. Its clear, user-friendly interface is perfect for small businesses and startups as well as enterprise-level use. It makes it a seamless transition from any other project management tools. Its simple but effective layout allows new users to quickly adapt to its ever-expanding set of features. Procezo allows users to create boards and provide access to users or teams as required, set priority and precedence of the task and allowing for subtasks and discussions to be created. With unlimited tasks, users, projects and free support, Procezo is quickly making its way into businesses from across the world and the ultimate growth hack tool.

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I loved Slack. We used it for discussion. But somehow, it was always difficult to get things done. HeySpace is what replaced Slack and Trello as it combines the functionality of both tools.

So, now we keep on discussing as we did on slack, but once we to a point where we want to do something, we create tasks on a board and distribute them.

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Ram Kumar
CTO, Architect at Sarvasv.in · | 2 upvotes · 175.6K views

trello has a much simpler interface and easy to learn for any team member. asana might have more features and configuration options but do you really need a complex system for developers to manage tasks?

After Microsoft took over trello, it has become more restricted these days but still good for startups.

Keep it simple! Focus on your product, not tools.

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Pros of Milanote
Pros of Trello
  • 2
    Clean and simple UI
  • 715
    Great for collaboration
  • 628
    Easy to use
  • 573
    Free
  • 375
    Fast
  • 347
    Realtime
  • 237
    Intuitive
  • 215
    Visualizing
  • 169
    Flexible
  • 126
    Fun user interface
  • 83
    Snappy and blazing fast
  • 30
    Simple, intuitive UI that gets out of your way
  • 27
    Kanban
  • 21
    Clean Interface
  • 18
    Easy setup
  • 18
    Card Structure
  • 17
    Drag and drop attachments
  • 11
    Simple
  • 10
    Markdown commentary on cards
  • 9
    Lists
  • 9
    Integration with other work collaborative apps
  • 8
    Satisfying User Experience
  • 8
    Cross-Platform Integration
  • 7
    Recognizes GitHub commit links
  • 6
    Easy to learn
  • 5
    Great
  • 4
    Better than email
  • 4
    Versatile Team & Project Management
  • 3
    and lots of integrations
  • 3
    Trello’s Developmental Transparency
  • 3
    Effective
  • 2
    Easy
  • 2
    Powerful
  • 2
    Agile
  • 2
    Easy to have an overview of the project status
  • 2
    flexible and fast
  • 2
    Simple and intuitive
  • 1
    Name rolls of the tongue
  • 1
    Customizable
  • 1
    Email integration
  • 1
    Personal organisation
  • 1
    Nice
  • 1
    Great organizing (of events/tasks)
  • 0
    Easiest way to visually express the scope of projects

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Cons of Milanote
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    • 5
      No concept of velocity or points
    • 4
      Very light native integrations
    • 2
      A little too flexible

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    What is Milanote?

    It is a new Web-based note-taking app that thinks of notebooks more like canvases than legal pads. It's designed for visual people but leaves out too many features to truly satisfy them, for now.

    What is Trello?

    Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

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