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I couldn't figure what what this things was after skimming over landing page - after watching 'How to use Asana, in 2 minutes' it seems like it's kind of task-list/to-do/reminder thing - which makes me think of Trello. Honest question - how is it different and/or better than Trello?

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Thanks for the pointer to Trello. What an amazing yet simple tool! I immediately have a ton of uses for it. Thanks to the google account integration I had a new board in literally 10 seconds. Wow...

I tried and compared Asana, Trello and a few other tools a couple months ago. I ended up feeling that Asana was geared more towards larger projects with multiple teams and organizations. Closer to MS Project and Merlin. Trello seems more like a lightweight, less structured tool that is good for individual/small/medium teams. Closer to Pivotal Tracker or RememberTheMilk.

You could spend time going feature to feature comparing the two and waiting for feedback from others -- or you could use both for 2 minutes each and instantly know the difference.

Or he could stick with what he already feels he knows well. Customers are not obliged to work to analyze new competitors.

Honest question: how is this different from Google Wave?

If you're asking about Trello - then I see one big difference - Trello has way simpler interface - to the point I could send my boss and colleagues invites and they immediately knew how to use it - whereas even my most geeky friends had problems figuring out how to use Wave (I did too.).

They seem completely different to me. GWave is a collaboration/communication tool. Asana is a project management/planning tool. In theory you could do PM with GWave but it would be a bit of a stretch.

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