Milanote vs Trello

March 15, 2025 | Author: Adam Levine
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Milanote
Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Add notes, images, links and files, organize them visually and share them with your team. Offers templates for brainstorming, project planning, and mood boards.
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Trello
Get organized as fast as you can think. The easy-to-use interface takes no time to learn, and every action is instantaneous, so there’s nothing standing between you and your sweet productive flow. Trello is great alone, but even better with others. Get the whole group onboard in seconds. See their updates in real time.

Both Milanote and Trello, in their own unique and occasionally confusing ways, allow you to organize your thoughts, tasks and dreams—preferably in some kind of order that makes sense. You can drag things around, create boards and share your brilliance with others who, in theory, will understand it. Both have this remarkable knack for allowing people to collaborate, though whether or not those people actually get anything done is another matter entirely. They each plug into the vast universe of apps like Google Drive and Slack, making sure no one is ever quite out of reach.

Now, Milanote, which comes from the faraway land of Australia (a country not quite as strange as it sounds), is a sort of digital notebook for creative minds. It lets you throw images, videos and various artistic ramblings onto its infinite canvas, where they can float around in a carefree, chaotic harmony. Designed with designers, writers and general free spirits in mind, it launched only in 2017. Milanote isn’t so much about tasks as it is about concepts, which might leave you wondering if anyone is actually getting anything done. But that’s the price of creativity, isn't it?

Trello, on the other hand, hails from the distant past of 2011 and is much more concerned with making sure things get done—preferably in an orderly fashion, like a well-oiled machine. Developed by the Americans at Fog Creek Software, Trello is all about organizing your projects into tidy little "cards," which can be assigned deadlines, tasks and automation (because who doesn't like a robot doing the work for them?). While it’s great for keeping track of what needs to happen next, it’s also remarkably good at ensuring you never lose track of an item, a deadline, or—if you’re really lucky—your sanity.

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Author: Adam Levine
Adam is an expert in project management, collaboration and productivity technologies, team management, and motivation. With an extensive background working at prestigious companies such as Microsoft and Accenture, Adam's in-depth knowledge and experience in the field make him a sought-after professional. Currently, he has ventured into entrepreneurship, owning a thriving consulting and training agency where he imparts invaluable insights and practical strategies to individuals and organizations, empowering them to achieve their goals and maximize their potential. You can contact Adam via email [email protected]