Plexii vs Milanote: which canvas fits your work?

Milanote and Plexii both give you a big open canvas for notes, images, links and files. They are built for different jobs.

Milanote is made for creative planning. Its help centre lists notes, images, to-do lists, links, columns, tables, video, sketches and files on a board, with nested boards, 100+ templates and a free web clipper for Chrome, Safari and Firefox. You can share a board for others to edit, comment or view. Its free plan holds 100 cards and 10 file uploads, so count what a project will need before you commit.

Plexii is a desktop app (Mac and Windows) built around a desk per piece of work. On the canvas you can put a document, spreadsheet or slides, a table that switches between grid, Kanban, calendar and Gantt views, a live browser window that remembers its page, files with previews, and a timer. It also has stickies, a gallery, a mind map and coloured sections.

Which fits:

• Choose Milanote when the output is a visual plan: a moodboard, storyboard or client presentation of ideas.
• Choose a Plexii desk when the board is a stepping stone to a document or table, such as a supplier comparison or a grant application.
• Use both when creative research feeds a business document. Gather in Milanote, then drop the board link onto a desk next to the brief and budget.

One honest gap: Plexii does not document a web clipper. You drag a link or tab onto the desk and it opens as a browser window. For gathering references, Milanote's clipper is the stronger tool.

The full comparison, with a worked rebrand example and a tool-by-tool table, is on the Plexii blog.

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Plexii is free to download for Mac and Windows: https://plexiidesk.com/download