Taskomat VS Trello

Can Taskomat be a valid alternative to Trello?

Taskomat and Trello are in two different universes. In this article, we explore the similarities and differences between the two software programs.

HERE'S TRELLO - Let's start with the fact that we at Taskomat often use Trello. All of us have used Trello at least once in our lives: it is essentially a project management platform, which can be used for anything from grocery lists to personal to-do lists. Its versatility is its main strength, but also its main weakness.

Using Trello is easy and immediate. Moving a card from one list to another is also an extremely gratifying action from a user experience standpoint: it gives you that feeling of things done right - "Ah, how nice is the drag and drop!"

With Trello, it is also quite easy to manage teams and shared projects. Its extremely simple and intuitive structure is very useful in keeping everyone aligned on the progress made.

It is also possible to use so-called Power-Ups to add various functionalities. These are a kind of third-party plugin that you can turn on or off at will on your boards. Some are even useful, too bad they are almost all paid.

The real problem is that Trello does not offer any real advantage in managing tasks, even though one might think they have found the solution to all productivity problems.

Trello is a platform for creating and managing to-do lists, ideally serving the same purpose as a notebook. What useful information can Trello provide for your business? Very little: the number of tasks you have left to do and some deadlines.

No information on costs, revenues, hourly rates, clients. No information on daily working hours. No information on project budgets.

HERE'S TASKOMAT - If Trello is software for managing to-do lists, Taskomat is instead the best productivity software. While Trello can help you manage your to-do lists, Taskomat helps you be more productive and maximize the profitability of your work.

With Taskomat, you have a complete ecosystem at your disposal to manage all the processes of your activity: hourly estimates, planning, task execution, budget monitoring, business intelligence, quotes, invoices, team building, management of hourly rates, etc.

Essentially, Trello helps you carry out activities, Taskomat helps you maximize the efficiency of your business.

Taskomat allows you to manage your entire workflow in an integrated manner, enabling you to analyze data and metrics of your business. For example, you can monitor your hourly rate, your daily capacity, the budget allocated to projects, and many other things.

With Taskomat, you have at your disposal a software platform specifically designed to manage complex workflows that go well beyond Trello's to-do lists.

TASKOMAT VS TRELLO - As already argued throughout the article, Trello is a fantastic tool for organizing tasks and to-do lists. Even we at Taskomat wouldn't do without it in some cases. It is an excellent support tool for one's activity, but it is of no help when it comes to supporting an entire business.

And the reason for this is very simple: Taskomat and Trello are two very different platforms, serving very different purposes.

The purpose of Trello is to organize to-do lists according to a shared framework, while the purpose of Taskomat is to integrate the entire workflow to maximize the value of time, profitability, and revenue through a circular information system that automatically links time and money.

Many use Trello, thinking that Trello alone is sufficient to fulfill the purpose of Taskomat. But this is not the case.

Using Trello is fine. We do it too, and I emphasize again that it is a very useful tool.

Using ONLY Trello is not fine at all. In such a case, it is unthinkable for you to continue managing operations with Trello or similar tools: how can you analyze your processes and the key metrics for each of them? How can you determine your hourly margin? How can you determine your efficiency? How can you be sure of the profitability of your projects? How can you plan and know in advance whether a project will generate revenue or costs?

Anyone who cares about growing their business cannot think of using only Trello: it can help manage part of the daily operations, but it gives no significant insight into the metrics of your business, no control tools, no information on performance.

If growing your business is among your desires, Taskomat is here for you.