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Asana vs Milanote: What are the differences?

  1. Workflow Management: Asana is mainly focused on task and project management, providing users with the ability to create tasks, assign them to team members, set deadlines, and track progress. Milanote, on the other hand, is geared towards visual brainstorming and organization, allowing users to create flexible boards to capture ideas, images, and notes in a visually appealing and collaborative way.

  2. Visual Organization vs. Task Management: Milanote thrives on visual organization, offering users the freedom to create boards filled with images, notes, and links to inspire creativity and facilitate collaboration. Asana, however, is more structured in its approach, offering task lists, calendars, and timelines for users to manage projects and track progress.

  3. Collaboration Features: Asana is designed for teamwork, offering features such as task assignments, comments, file attachments, and project status updates to facilitate collaboration and communication within teams. Milanote, on the other hand, focuses more on individual brainstorming and idea organization, with limited collaboration features compared to Asana.

  4. User Interface: Asana has a clean and intuitive interface with a focus on task lists, calendars, and timelines to help users stay organized and on track with their projects. Milanote, on the other hand, offers a more visual and creative interface with a drag-and-drop functionality that allows users to create boards filled with images, notes, and other multimedia elements.

  5. Mobile Experience: Asana offers a robust mobile app that allows users to manage tasks, track progress, and communicate with team members on the go. Milanote, while accessible on mobile devices through a web browser, does not have a dedicated mobile app, which may limit its usability for users who prefer mobile-centric productivity tools.

  6. Price and Plans: Asana offers a free basic plan with limited features, as well as premium plans with advanced features for individuals and teams. Milanote also provides a free plan with basic features, but its premium plan is primarily aimed at individual users, with limited options for team collaboration compared to Asana.

In Summary, Asana is a task and project management tool focused on structured workflows and team collaboration, while Milanote is a visual organization tool tailored for creative brainstorming and individual idea management.

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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 · 227.2K 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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Ram Kumar
CTO, Architect at Sarvasv.in · | 2 upvotes · 179.4K 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 Asana
Pros of Milanote
  • 160
    Super fast task creation
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    Flexible project management
  • 101
    Free up to 15
  • 99
    Followers and commenting on tasks
  • 57
    Integration with external services
  • 25
    Email-based task creation
  • 17
    Plays nice with Google Apps
  • 14
    Clear usage
  • 14
    Plays nice with Harvest Time Tracking
  • 6
    Supports nice keyboard shortcuts
  • 4
    Integration with GitHub
  • 2
    Slack supported
  • 2
    Integration with Instagantt for Gantt Charts
  • 1
    Integration with Alfred
  • 1
    Both Card View & Task View
  • 1
    Easy to use
  • 1
    Friendly API
  • 0
    Slick and fast interface
  • 2
    Clean and simple UI

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Cons of Asana
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    Not Cross Platform
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    What is Asana?

    Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android.

    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.

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