Miro provides a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to dream, design, and build the future together. Today, Miro counts more than 60 million users in 200,000 organizations who use Miro to improve product development collaboration, to speed up time to market, and to make sure that new products and services deliver on customer needs.
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Microsoft's OneNote is a digital note-taking app, supporting photos, annotating, web page clipping, emailing, and synchronizing notes across devices.
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3. Business - Scales collaboration with advanced features and security
$16
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4. Enterprise - For work across the entire organization, with support, security and control, to scale
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MURAL was quite comparable, and I actually liked the handling more (back in 2020), but it was nothing crucial, I just got used to it more. However, our IT is selecting Miro, and I am very happy with it. OneNote didn't work at all as a collaboration tool because it misses the …
Most similar to OneNote in terms of functionality, but much more lightweight and less clunky, with much better UI and templates but perhaps slightly fewer features. The notion is much better for quick note/meeting minute-taking but lacks the unstructured formatting style of …
I have not used many products like Miro. In the past, I have tried using OneNote, but the functionality is limited and frustrating. Occasionally, I have used Canva to organize more graphic design-focused projects, such as mood boards. But in general, my needs for Canva and Miro …
Miro, Lucidchart, and OneNote each offer unique features for collaboration and note-taking, catering to different needs. Miro stands out as an exceptional visual collaboration tool, enabling remote teams to brainstorm and work together in real time. Its virtual whiteboard …
Miro stands out from OneNote primarily due to its focus on interactive, real-time collaboration and visual project management. Unlike OneNote's strength in hierarchical note-taking and integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, Miro offers an infinite canvas that facilitates …
pros and cons with each. I describe Miro as the wild wild west. I can be utilized just about any way you wish, and governance is difficult to control. In contrast, many other platforms lack the flexibility, but adds an element of consistency and structure.
I like Miro specifically for its brainstorming and whiteboard uses. I still use Asana and Planner for planning out timelines or assigning specific tasks.
I have used Visio and Lucid in the past; they are not great. The biggest competitor, I think, is Excalidraw. It's free and works great for stuff other than the group collaboration piece. I think it might do that, too, but I don't pay for it. It beats Miro on quick and fast …
I find Miro to be a superior tool, other tools I have used became unresponsive or too slow to be effective in the roles and jobs I needed them to do. I am currently working in a Miro board with over 1000 discrete elements and it loads fast, I can maneuver and work with the …
When it comes to process visualization, Miro is the finest by far. Nothing compares to it, however I've attempted to use it in place of properly labeled and/or colored folders in SharePoint, for example, and it just doesn't work out this way for keeping information and critical …
Miro is by far the best for visualization of processes. Nothing is quite like it, however for storing information and important files, I've tried to do this but it just doesn't work out as well as having clearly labeled and/or colored folders in SharePoint for example. Some …
We were originally using Mural, but it did not satisfy our company's security standards and we also had a lot of issues with it freezing when we would have more than ~10 people collaborating on the board at once, so we made the switch to Miro back in 2020. At first, Miro felt …
Confluence can be used well for instructions and documentation. But it does not work for workshops or brainstorming, as content and ideas cannot be visualised clearly.
Miro is so much easier to use with a mouse and keyboard. It is easier to create impactful diagrams and track tasks than any other product on the list. I can move faster and teach people to use the tool faster than any other option. Adding and connecting pics/screenshots is easy …
Miro is much more intuitive tool and has a lot of different useful features. Real-time collaboration where you can see your team moves makes it even easier. The way you can present ideas and share among the organization proves high level of tool functionality. Working with Miro …
Figma has much better interface for creating wireframes and designing UI. Miro does a better job for the casual user who is just trying to collaborate with team members or plan projects
MURAL is similar, but I do not like the restriction on the project size and number of panels - Miro reduces some of these unnecessary barriers. Otherwise, I don't remember the other big differences between the two very similar product. I do think the naming is a little strange, …
MURAL - comparable, cheaper than Miro, but not as intuitive, user-friendly, and feature-rich. I would use MURAL as needed and really your top competitor. It is missing the fluid of selection. Bluescape - is inferior in most parts but FedRAMPed MS Whiteboard - flawed in every way …
Miro is better at sharing/live collaborating, editing, saving that version in a spot accessible to all so that I don't have to worry about someone creating a copy version or linking to something outdated.
It does so much more and the user experience is a lot better. I can more easily search and find the right spaces, share them with colleagues and organise the work into groups. The collaboration features really set it apart. Even though it has some room to get better, it’s ‘good …
I am just more familiar with Miro. And I really dislike how draw.io looks, it looks very 1990s, and I am not sure if it is because of my setting or not, but when my co-worker makes an update there, I don't see updates in real-time. I can only see it after my co-worker saved it.
MIRO is ideal as a one-stop shop for visual diagramming. It has many uses in leading remote workshop facilitation without compromising on its beauty. It plays fairly well with others, especially if you go with the more expensive plan if you need to import and export things. I've used VISIO, lucidchart, and iGraphx extensively, and every moment I have to use those, I wish I was using MIRO.
In my opinion OneNote is a must for anyone who does business. It’s versatile, stable and sustainable. It can keep private information private - like passwords. It can be used for collaborative work - like standard operating procedures. It is fairly easy to use and far superior to pen and paper. When used for meeting notes, it can be flagged with icons that are searchable - like ideas or important items. You can even create Outlook tasks on the fly
Exceptional templates help me get started quickly with almost any type of whiteboarding, creating consistency where needed and extreme variety when also needed.
Having multiple active users on the same board happens so smoothly. It's easy to get people on the board and updating objects simultaneously without weird conflicts is amazing.
The amount of objects & tools Miro provides allows us to create very specific and detailed artifacts.
Because of its flexibility and ability to hold different types of content (text, images, tables), it is a great tool for collecting content from different resources and organizing it in one place.
Technical support analysts are using sections for their support case analysis; they paste pieces of logs, screen-shots, document their steps in troubleshooting etc., all in one section, to get the full picture yet stay organized.
The logic of content structure; Notebook>Section>Page>Paragraph, allows you to manage and collect all needed information by the areas of the user's responsibility. For example; each of my projects has its own section, in which each page is a task.
The table editing tools are too simplistic and lack the features found in other Office products.
Some content loses its rich text formatting when being pasted into OneNote. A workaround is to paste the content first into Outlook or Word and then copy/pasting that into OneNote.
Microsoft is moving away from a local install of OneNote, which means notebooks have to be in the cloud in Office 2019. This will actually reduce the usefulness of OneNote in some environments and opens the door to competitor products.
Update: Microsoft has now announced that it will continue to support OneNote 2016 through 2023. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Office-365-Blog/Your-OneNote/ba-p/954922
There is no other tool like Miro for process Mapping in particular. I've tried PowerPoint, Word, and other programs, but when collaborating virtually on how to improve a process, Miro has all of the tools and more to enable successful mapping. The colors, different types of shapes and text books, along with the ability to integrate different documents and other functionality, make it ideal for this purpose. In a virtual world, it's a must-have.
As this is not a compulsory tool in our organization, I would say all depends on the decision makers, however since this is a part of MS Office, I am sure we will have it for as long as we will possibly need it. However, I would not be so sure, if it was a separate product
It's pretty easy to use. My gripes are with some small idiosyncrasies with selection behavior with objects and editing text. When I move an object, it automatically de-selects it when I am not done with it. I have to click to select again. Text control is challenging and could be improved. It could use a little more styling capability. It's also weird that it behaves differently in a shape then when using the text tool.
I find OneNote incredibly usable. I'm fairly middle of the road when it comes to tech savvy-ness. The platform was very easy to learn and explore. I like that OneNote is no clunky and offers a clean interface. This is important when it comes to deciding if a tool is usable for multiple people.
I only give a 9/10 because of the speed at which it loads. I have never experienced issues with Miro logging me out early, or some other technical issue causing the program to crash, or even it just loading in perpetuity without ever actually coming up (unlike other programs such as SFDC). It take a minute for all of my boards to come up after I click on it in my favorites, but besides that, it's all good.
I took the loading quickly to be related to availability which I commented on before, so ditto with those comment on load time here. Although to reemphasize, Miro doesn't crash or just refuse to load like some other programs. The weak point of Miro for me is integration of files like Word, Excel, or PowerPoint (especially the later two). When you embed these, it gets slow, and complicated to bring them up while you're in the application.
Overall, I rate OneNote's performance highly. In general, notebooks, sections and pages load quickly. OneNote integrates with other apps and info ca easily be shared/copied to and from the tool to other tools. Moreover, Notebooks tend to sync quickly meaning shared notebooks are up to date almost immediately provided there are no syncing issues.
The support staff at Miro are fantastic. Whenever I have had an issue, they have been timely and helpful with their response. They are also very knowledgeable and go out of their way to not only help, but offer proactive training sessions on different topics and new functionality so everyone can try it out.
Since it is part of Microsoft Office and used across the globe there are a lot of support options available. It's quickest to just do a google search which will have plenty of articles to help you since there are so many OneNote users but as an Office customer you also have access to Microsoft support and I have had good experiences with their support (probably because I'm with a large company who is a large customer to them).
There was a series of webinars which Miro hosted with our organization that went over the basics, then progressively became more advanced with additional sections. The instructors were knowledgeable, and provided examples throughout the sessions, as well as answered peoples' questions. There was ample time and experience on the calls to cover a range of topics. The instructors were also very friendly and sociable, as well as honest. Of course Miro isn't a "God-tool" that does absolutely everything, but the instructors were aware and emphasized the strengths where Miro had them and sincerely accepted feedback.
The Miro team was very collaborative and helpful; I loved that they used the tool to help us implement Miro! With Miro being so easy to use, I love that the implementation team was very flexible with us, assessed where we were with our understanding of the tool, and then adjusted the type of support they provided accordingly.
In many cases the other tools did a single thing better than Miro but overall Miro better solved all our needs. In some cases, like FigJam the hurdle was licensing. Teams just doesn't have an awesome set of features. MindMap is good for what it is but not so good for other uses. Mural is excellent...just not as good.
I tried using Evernote and it is an equally usable tool, however, I prefer the interface and capabilities of OneNote. OneNote seems much easier to use and understand. I think that may primarily be because OneNote is a Microsoft application and I am very used to using Microsoft applications such as Word, Excel, etc. I also use OneNote to keep my grocery list. It does as good of a job as the grocery list applications out there, only I like the flexibility I have with OneNote and how I specifically do my shopping.
Miro is great for scaling. In every department and subdivision across my entire organization, there is someone using it. From Sales to marketing, to manufacturing and operations; and even in legal and finance, there isn't a process or a department that is not using Miro, and if they aren't, they're missing out! Even at the highest to the lowest levels of the organization, it is essential for virtual collaboration.
We're able to collaborate remotely as if we had a big wall with a lot of sticky notes, avoiding costly travel to offsite locations. ($350 per day)
Meetings flow more efficiently when we use the timer, helping us to stick to the meeting agenda and avoiding distractions.
We can save our work and return to it, without having to refer to a picture of a whiteboard that is hard to read. This saves us from confusion and helps to keep collaboration going.
OneNote has become our organizational standard method of taking electronic notes (though some still prefer pen and paper.) It has been a zero cost outlay due to its freely available nature.
Its integration with other Microsoft Office products makes it easy to share notes and content between products, allowing for easy collaboration where needed.
OneNote's integration with OneDrive ensures that individual's notes are always safe and secure, taking away the tedious responsibility of backup from the user, and makes it happen seamlessly in the background.
