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Visual boards solution for organizing ideas and projects

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  • Likelihood to recommend8.93/10

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Pros and cons

I absolutely love Milanote and the ease of use for the tool. It's my go-to for client presentations and I love that boards can be downloaded into a PDF or word doc for easy sharing.
The visual appearance is beautiful and feels like bullet journaling, and the ability to adjust the boards to any length or width is a fantastic feature.
Milanote is a very versatile solution to ideation and whiteboarding that does a great job. It is perfect for online moodboards, storyboarding, documentation, and mindmaping.
The fact that it is only online could have been a con because sometimes I need to work offline.
Thus it is hard to justify paying for the functionality.
Can't live without it but needs an offline mode and iPad app.
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Jakub H.

Founder Product Designer

Design, 1-10 employees

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Nice tool for millenial teams

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Jakub: Hi, my name is Jakub and I'm a founder and a designer. And I give Milanote three out of five stars....

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Jakub H.

Founder Product Designer

Design, 1-10 employees

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Nice tool for millenial teams

Reviewed 2 years ago

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Jakub H.: Hi, I'm Jakub. I'm a designer and I give Milanote three stars out of five. And for more reviews,...

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Kobey C.

Mining & Metals, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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Make Organizing Tasks Easier with Milanote

Reviewed 3 months ago

I love Milanote for the user experience. Dragging and dropping images is super easy and intuitive, and relationships between images or other objects are super simple to create. Milanote has helped keep my thoughts organized.

Pros

I like the ease of use of Milanote. Milanote is one of the most intuitive organization apps. I enjoy the simple and user friendly interface and the fact that there is no feature you will struggle to find. One of my all-time favorite features of Milanote is how easy it is to drag and drop images from google images or elsewhere directly into Milanote without copying, pasting, or saving.

Cons

I think the drawing tool could be a bit better.

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saad h.

Design, self-employed

Used daily for 6-12 months

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My honest review of Milanote

Reviewed a year ago

Excellent, fantastic, and incredible, one of my favorite tools not just as a designer but as an Entrepreneur

Pros

Everything, from the design to the ease of use and the overall experience, I also like that I haven't had a single problem to date with this amazing tool

Cons

That is not known more, yes Milanote is that perfect, I wish more people use it so it would be even better in terms of sharing and collaborating.

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Michelle S.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

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A go-to for pretty much everything

Reviewed a year ago

Great. Amazing tool for presentation, brainstorming, collaboration and the templates are great places to start for any workflow. I love that images and videos and links can be uploaded with ease. It's a great, versatile tool that helps collect everything into one place.

Pros

I absolutely love Milanote and the ease of use for the tool. It's my go-to for client presentations and I love that boards can be downloaded into a PDF or word doc for easy sharing. This has become a staple in my business and my clients also enjoy the ease of use and collaboration Milanote provides.

Cons

Would be cool if you could customize the fonts a bit more, otherwise don't have any complaints thus far.

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Health, Wellness and Fitness, self-employed

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Perfect mind mapping tool

Reviewed a year ago

I've been working with Milanote for the past 7 months. I'm using it weekly and it feels comfortable for me to integrate it in my projects.

Pros

Milanote has de most efficient yet faster Mind mapping tool on the market. The visual workspace and all its flexibility, make brainstorming gets easier and faster. Mainly when you need to work remotely and need to share files, ideas, copy texts, mood boards, etc. with collaborators or partners in your projects. I really love the use of icons, images, and charts to visualize any project management workflow or idea.

Cons

I'm still giving it a try, but for now, it feels very complete and it brings me all the tools I need for my projects. Maybe I do prefer using it on my PC or Laptop than on mobile... but it is just an opinion...

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Education Management, 201-500 employees

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I love Milanote

Reviewed a year ago

I love it so far! Will use it for help with studying and game development projects with friends.

Pros

It's very aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. I love that i can collaborate with friends for free whereas some alternatives make you pay money to even try out the real time collaboration features.

Cons

I would like some more features but not too many so that it doesn't become bloated like Notion.Maybe i just haven't found it yet but it would be nice if we had rows along with the column feature. or maybe just put 2 in 1 and call it a grid? I tried to add cards to the right or left of other ones in a column and sadly it didn't work. It's not a big deal though.

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Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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Effortlessly Organize Your Creative Ideas with Milanote

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

As a user, I highly recommend Milanote for organizing and scaling up the clarity of ideas. The flexible drag-and-drop interface allows me to arrange my projects in a way that makes the most sense for each one. The platform is intuitive and easy to navigate, allowing me to quickly find everything I need. The visual appearance is beautiful and feels like bullet journaling, and the ability to adjust the boards to any length or width is a fantastic feature. I have used many project and content management systems in the past, but Milanote stands out as one of the cleanest and most user-friendly. I love using it to create and manage my social media calendars.

Cons

Milanote falls short in some functionalities, such as lacking edit history tracking and restricting content on mobile app for TikTok and Instagram posting. Additionally, it seems to lack flexibility in areas such as naming links. Overall, while it excels in organization, it may not meet all users' expectations in terms of functionality.

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Clara V.

Media Production, self-employed

Used daily for 2+ years

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The outline king

Reviewed 2 years ago
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I love when I can write and see my beat sheet and outline visually, because text sometimes is annoying.

Cons

Limit of cards when you're creating content.

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Trevor B.

Alternative Medicine, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Milanote's Evolutionary Journey 😇✈️😊

Reviewed 2 years ago

Collaboration, streaming work flow, better project management, this software is a must for any business, 5*****'s.

Pros

It has so many features, post graphic previews, pdf document sharing, brainstorming sessions, video content, website development, project management, team management, and last but not least, a great tool at a great price.

Cons

When this software came along, I was fairly disappointed, I compared it to the likes of cling. Since its evolutionary journey has progressed, the company have listened to feedback of its users. That initially was the big hang up. Not listening. It had so much potential, just didn't tap into what the customer saw and wanted. Now however, things are very different, and its a pleasure to work with.

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Jeremy S.

Entertainment, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Milanote Just Works!

Reviewed 2 years ago

Milanote is a great software that allows for quick and easy iteration of ideas using their built-in flexible tools to mindmap, organize, and sketch out almost any idea you could have!

Pros

Milanote is a very versatile solution to ideation and whiteboarding that does a great job. It is perfect for online moodboards, storyboarding, documentation, and mindmaping.

Cons

I wish rather than having a card limit for all boards there was a board limit and a card limit per board. As is, the software doesn't have enough PAID features to make the paid version worth it, and the free version is lacking enough to use it as anything other than an idea board. I still prefer Jira or Trello for project management, and PureRef for my moodboards (even though that doesn't allow for collaboration and isn't online).

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Tristan C.

Computer Games, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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The BEST project management tool 2022

Reviewed 2 years ago

great experience. would definitely use it for future projects

Pros

This can be used in so many ways, from whiteboard to mind maps, to brainstorming ideas. lets you use words or imported pics

Cons

Allowing access can be frustrating sometimes

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Mauricio A.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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One of the best tools for ideation

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

Milanote it's pretty easy to understand and to deploy within your team. Also the tools that they have for making mudboards or brainstorms are amazing, with that and the facilities for collaboration you can ideate projects or products on your computer like having your teamates next to you.

Cons

You can't track the progress of activities on a detailed way, also you can't see how many activities each team member have to do. At the end I understand that Milanote it's not focusing on these things but it would be nice to have them.

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Jakub H.

Design, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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Nice tool for millenial teams

Reviewed 2 years ago

I used the app quite a lot at the beginning and tried to pull all my colleagues into using it. After some projects we realized that the free tier is slightly unusable for us and so we moved to something else.

Pros

I like the overall appearance of the tool and the way it allowed me to store ideas and data in one place and share it with others. Visually and simply via drag-and-drop.

Cons

The structuring of content in layers and "buckets" went so far it became nearly impossible to know where what asset is stored.

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Wendell S.

E-Learning, 1-10 employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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I have a love/hate relationship with MIlanote!!!

Reviewed 3 years ago

Milanote needs rethink it's membership program. There needs to be something that attracts customers back on a weekly basis. And in the current freemium service, there is a reason to go back and use Milanote once your 100 boards are used up. I believe Milanote should give users 5-10 free boards every month. I believe this will get people to use the program more often, more comfortable using the program, and collaborate with their people, eventually purchasing like I did.

Pros

Milanote is fun and easy to use. I really like this tool a lot. Whenever I need to storyboard an idea, I go to Milanote.

Cons

The free boards and subscriptions don't make any sense. Milanote gives 100 free boards. That's wonderful!!! However, once you use up the 100 boards, your only option is to purchase a monthly subscription regardless if you use one new board or 1000 new boards. I only use Milanote in seasons, meaning I use it for 20 days each quarter. I purchased a yearly subscription and after 6 months I realized I only used it for about 40 days. So purchasing a yearly subscription for 80 days of use is a waste of money. I did purchase it one month at a time, but that was annoying.

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Desmond C.

Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Ultimate Planning Software

Reviewed 4 years ago

I am currently using Milanot to plan every of my project and it's so very helpful.

Pros

Planning has never been easier, I am able to add links, images etc. It's just like seeing what your final output would be like even before it is launched. I remember planning my website on Milanote first, and I still plan all my projects and campaign here, draft out my designs and scripts for the video here also. The guide at the beginning also helps to familiarize yourself with the app and how it works. Great Tool!!!

Cons

First of all, most time, I want to also work offline, but can't and I really wished there was a possibility. They should also consider cutting down the price a little, the other option is referring to get more space.

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Megan B.

Online Media, self-employed

Used other for 2+ years

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Milanote is a great tool and fun to use

Reviewed 4 years ago

I use Milanote to help plan my website and make mindmaps about future content for my site. It's a great way to save notes and photos to inspire you and your team.

Pros

I love that you can organize thoughts and things in a visual way. The tool can be used to plan designs or anything really using a visual layout. You can also save links to websites and make notes etc. You can make some amazing mindmaps and vision boards using Milanote.

Cons

The price is a bit prohibitive for me personally. The free tier allows a medium level of usage. I think with a few more features it could replace other tools like evernote.

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Alexa R.

Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used daily for 1-2 years

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I can't live without Milanote, I use it for EVERYTHING

Reviewed 5 years ago

Everything I used to do with a corkboard I can now do on Milanote. I have so much of my planning, writing, and proposals in this software now, it is my go-to anytime I need to quickly get something out of my head and onto "paper". It's the one software I can't imagine running my business without.

Pros

I use Milanote daily, for everything from mapping out a new story to creating wireframes for clients, to merely clipping quotes from the web for later use. It is such a versatile tool. I think of it like Evernote, but without all of the constraints. If you are a visual person who likes to storyboard out your ideas without having to fit it in a box, this is perfect. The templates are really great too.

Cons

The mobile app has been a long time coming and I'm getting happier with it by the day. I do wish I could share the live board with clients or friends without them needing to signup, like a view-only option, but that's not a dealbreaker since the export to PDF option fills in the gap.

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Dominique B.

Financial Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Easiest way to organize strategies and workflows

Reviewed 5 years ago

This is the main tool that my team and I turn to when organizing new marketing campaigns, outlining strategies and gathering inspiration.

Pros

Super easy to organize ideas and share concepts with the team. The ability to add arrows, imagery and comments makes it super easy to decipher complex ideas with the team in one view. The ability to add links right onto the board with previews make for a great visual planning tool. The Milanote team provides amazing ongoing communication with examples of how other users organize their projects and new features

Cons

The comment feature is great for team input, but there is no way to hide comments while previewing the board without completely dismissing it/deleting the comment altogether. When sharing a collaborative board with my team, I would love it if they were able to view other's comments with the ability to turn the comment view on and off

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Jovan M.

Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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One of the best tools for organizing creative projects within the team

Reviewed 5 years ago

When you need to create content from stretch you need to have everything organized in one place (copy, visuals, external sources etc.) and everything needs to be visually well arranged. Milanote provides us everything you need in one place, so we can move faster with our tasks and deadlines.

Pros

I like to use Milanote for website content creation, customer journey mapping and even for creating simple diagrams. The learning curve of using this tool is not so long, you can conclude everything that tool can do within the few hours. Great UX and UI visual experience.

Cons

Struggling with shaping and moving arrows.

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Adam S.

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Milanote is a terrific creative canvas for ideation, research, collaboration and everyday notetaking

Reviewed 7 years ago

Milanote is a creative workflow asset. It allows me to rapidly iterate on just about anything that's how versatile I've found it to be.

Pros

Milanote has an elegantly simple interface. It's great for capturing notes on the go, consolidating and mapping your research findings, organising your creative ideas, arranging all of the above into projects and using whatever system/workflow suits you (and your team, in realtime).

Cons

As a product, Milanote sits somewhere between a fully-fledged word processor and an online file storage service, like Dropbox. It's not either of those extremes, so manage your expectations! However, it is absolutely terrific at filling the void in between.

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Candace E.

11-50 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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Working with Milanote has made tasks like mood-boarding and team collaboration so easy.

Reviewed 7 years ago
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The ease of use is definitely one of the pros. The software is fast/easy to learn , and easy to use. It lets you focus on the task at hand and not get frustrated with convoluted user experiences.

Cons

More functionality around team collaborate would be great. A way to see who is leaving feedback or comments and a way to comment back. Maybe in a comment thread.

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Pablo S.

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 6-12 months

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Very happy with the ease of use and the possibilities. But there's still much to improve.

Reviewed 7 years ago

Organise projects I'm working on and future ideas and projects. Feel a bit more organize with it, but still needs a lot of improvements to really be used much more. Especially for the price it has.

Pros

Ease of use, very visual and intuitive. Being able to organize everything the way I want is one of my favorite features compared to other tools like Evernote that I found quite restrictive in this sense. The possibility to create any possible combination of notes, boards, images, it's great and allows to create each board different according to your needs.

Cons

Still lots of things to add and improve, especially for the cost it has. In my opinion, the actual price of the pro version doesn't justify the features available. There is no android app, so it's almost impossible to use on your mobile phone, becoming just a desktop app. I miss the option to upload files of any type and modify the notes to be wider if we need so we can add paragraphs of text easily.

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Maria G.

51-200 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Made for Designers

Reviewed 7 years ago

I'm able to feel more organized. As a designer, I benefit greatly from having everything in one place vs physical boards. I can take it with me on the go, on my phone and it's been great for collaboration with my team.

Pros

My favorite aspect of Milanote is having the ability to create different boards. I work as a UX designer so the boards have been an amazing way to collect research, images, references and to compile them in a way that is visually easy to look at and organized.

Cons

When I have long pieces of text, it tends to expand in length but not in width. Having more control of the text boxes so they can be adjusted using the cursor in terms of both width and height would be very useful!

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Kelsey O.

Internet,

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Clean, easy to use system of visual organization for designers.

Reviewed 7 years ago

Milanote is awesome and an essential design organizational tool

Pros

I started using Milanote when it was in beta, when I was looking for a neater alternative to Trello. I do design work, so being able to put pictures and text wherever I want is really important. It's equally, important, though, that everything be neat and easy to organize. I mostly work by myself with a handful of individual clients. I can work on Milanote without having to deal with excess team...

Cons

There's no integration with Zapier yet. I believe that's on the roadmap, but it'll definitely make a difference when I can connect a particular design board with tasks on Todoist, for example.

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Luana C.

Marketing and Advertising, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Ótima ferramenta para controle de atividades

Reviewed a year ago

Minha experiência com o Milanote é muito satisfatória. Com esse sistema, sinto que minha rotina ficou muito mais prática e organizada. E o melhor é que posso compartilhar todos os meus projetos com a minha equipe, de forma prática, para que todos possam dar a sua contribuição.

Pros

Um dos principais pontos fortes do Milanote é a sua capacidade de criar painéis visuais altamente personalizáveis. Você pode criar diferentes quadros para categorizar e agrupar seus elementos, bem como usar etiquetas coloridas e marcadores para identificar e destacar itens importantes. o Milanote oferece integrações com outras ferramentas populares, como o Google Drive, Dropbox e Evernote, para facilitar a importação e exportação de dados.

Cons

O que menos gosto no milanote é que, às vezes, ele apresenta algumas falhas ao subir algumas imagens e vídeos na plataforma.

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Leticia d.

Museums and Institutions, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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Tus ideas se quedarán bien organizadas y protegidas

Reviewed 2 years ago

Me parece una idea perfecta si eres una persona que está siempre pegada a un teléfono, tablet u ordenador. Tus ideas estarán a salvo, y en cualquier momento podrás hacer los ajustes necesarios y compartirlo con quien quieras. Otra cosa que podría destacar en la posibilidad que te ofrecen para exportar el documento en otros formatos.

Pros

Es ideal para organizar tus ideas de un trabajo o proyecto, tanto en solitario como en equipo. Lo mejor es que a nivel visual, puedes colocar los objetos (imagen o texto) según tus prioridades.

Cons

Por ahora no hay nada malo que destacar.

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