VIDEO: monday.com vs. Trello | Which is Best for You?

if you're in the market for a project or workflow management tool you'll want to compare monday.com and trello both are great tools for staying organized and getting more done so today we'll be taking a closer look to save you some time hey everyone i'm meredith and in this video we're going to take a deep dive into monday.com and trello exploring how they work and when it's best to use them but if you want some more options for project management software check out our top 10 list at the link in the description below alright guys let's start with monday.com monday.com is a project and workflow management system that lets you break down projects into tasks which you can visualize in a number of different ways some of these views include table board pie chart map and gantt charts you can build your own workflows from scratch or choose from over 200 workflow templates that's right 200 workflow templates one of my favorite features of monday is that it lets you customize columns in the table view and there are a lot of column options to choose from you obviously get your basic columns like text people date and status but you can also add columns for files star ratings links a world clock and even a color picker for graphic designers this makes monday a flexible tool that you can use for almost any kind of project another standout feature of monday is automations automations use behavior-based triggers to automate different actions in the system you can build custom automations but monday also offers a library of automation templates to choose from you could for example set an automation to send a notification to a project manager if certain tasks are still in progress by a certain date additional tools like commenting and at mentions make it easy to collaborate with colleagues and the system integrates with all of your favorite tools like dropbox slack zoom and adobe creative cloud monday.com comes in four paid plans in addition to a 14 day free trial all right now let's talk about trello trello is a workflow management tool from atlassian that lets you visualize tasks as cards on a kanban board you can use trello for simple project management but it's really made for helping you optimize workflows and stay organized trello is great for ongoing recurring tasks like maintaining a content calendar or managing scrum sprints but if you're looking for something a little more heavy duty atlassian also makes a project management tool called jira we made a whole video walkthrough and review of jira which you can watch by clicking the card in the top right corner building a workflow in trello starts with creating a board a board consists of lanes and cards and it works similarly to how you might move sticky notes between different columns on a whiteboard thankfully trello is a good bit more sophisticated than sticky notes it lets you set deadlines add assignees create checklists with task dependencies make comments label and upload attachments to cards and from there you can just drag and drop cards to different lanes to keep track of your workflow stages if you don't know where to start with creating your board trello offers tons of board templates to help you get started you can find board templates for a number of categories including business design education engineering marketing hr and operations and product management you can also create your own templates from boards that you've created like monday.com trello comes with an automation feature called butler you can choose from a number of pre-built butler automations or you can build your own using behavior-based triggers you can integrate trello with apps like slack jira google drive zapier and toggle and the tool also supports colorblind friendly labeling for cards trello offers a free plan in addition to two paid plans priced per user per month monday.com and trello are both good options for staying on top of your to-do list but choosing one over the other comes down to what you're going to use it for if you need to manage a large software development project then monday.com might be better for you but on the other hand if you're just looking for a way to make your content marketing efforts more efficient you might prefer trello for more information about project management tools courses and certification programs be sure to check out our website at the link in the description below hit subscribe turn on notifications and we'll see you next time bye

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