ByDesign vs Trello

What you get with ByDesign that Trello doesn’t offer

• A scheduled plan, not just a board

  Say a goal and ByDesign writes the tasks, subtasks, courses and deadlines and places them on your calendar for your approval. Trello’s AI can build a board from a goal and suggest a checklist on paid plans; the schedule is still cards you drag into the Planner or AI focus-time suggestions you accept one by one.

• A calendar that syncs both ways

  Edit an event in ByDesign or in Google and Apple Calendar and both stay right, with Outlook and ICS subscriptions too, plus auto-scheduling around your hours. Trello’s Planner shows Google or Outlook events beside your cards and writes focus-time blocks back to that calendar.

• Habits, goals, notes and focus

  A habit tracker with streaks, goal pages with progress, nested notes pages, a Pomodoro timer and time tracking on every task. Trello has card descriptions, Butler automation, and Power-Ups for timers and time tracking.

• Your whole year on one canvas

  Year, quarter, month, week and day on one zoomable surface, with sticky notes, images and pinned pages. Trello’s Calendar and Timeline views come with Premium, and Timeline zooms out to a year.

Why people switch from Trello to ByDesign

Say the goal. Get a scheduled plan.

Tell ByDesign what you want to achieve. It asks a few questions, then builds the tasks, subtasks, courses and deadlines and schedules them around the life you already have. Replan in one message.

Trello: Trello’s AI, on Standard and up, can turn a described goal into a board and a card into a checklist. The AI can read a due date from a card’s title, but the week is still planned by dragging them into the Planner or accepting AI focus-time suggestions one at a time.

A schedule you approve, not one you drag

Set your hours, breaks and buffers once. ByDesign places tasks into the gaps, splits long ones, shows the proposed week and waits for your OK. Replan after a busy day in one message.

Trello: Trello’s Planner lets you drag cards onto a calendar to block time, and AI focus time suggests blocks you accept or dismiss or, in proactive mode, blocks time for cards due within five days by itself, on paid plans. There is no plan of your whole week to review.

Habits, goals and focus, built in

Track habits with streaks and stats, keep goal pages with progress, run a Pomodoro and track time on any task. Open ByDesign in the morning and it already works.

Trello: Trello has Butler automation for repeating work, card checklists and Power-Ups for timers. There is no habit tracker, no goal pages and no built-in Pomodoro or time tracking.

Your whole year on one surface

The planning canvas zooms from the full year down to a single day. Pin goals, notes and milestones where they belong, drag anything, and the plan keeps up.

Trello: Trello shows boards, and on Premium a Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map. Timeline zooms out to a year, but there is no canvas and no sticky notes on the plan; stickers go on boards.