Maker's Schedule
From busy to focused.
Comparison
Trello moves cards. Maker's Schedule runs follow-ups, delivery, your calendar, and invoices in one place.
Trello is fine for a short job list. It gets thin when you also track deals, send contracts, block hours on a calendar, and still open a spreadsheet to see what's coming in and going out.
Sales has pipeline stages and a weekly action queue for follow-ups. Won deals become clients. Projects splits work into themes and Next up, and you can schedule tasks on Home's week grid. Clients holds invoices and payment schedules. Contracts covers scope and milestones. Money tracks expenses and tax. Trello doesn't do any of that natively.
Trello is boards, lists, and cards. Labels, checklists, due dates. Easy to see what's moving. Good for a small team passing tasks across columns.
Side by side on the things that matter when you run a solo business week to week.
Maker's Schedule: Pipeline and a weekly action queue on Home and Sales. Open deal value, win rate, and the calls you owe this week.
Trello: No pipeline. People add a Sales board or a separate CRM. Cards don't know deal history or weekly queue logic.
Maker's Schedule: Hour blocks on Home from 8:00 to 20:00. You see how full Tuesday is, not just what's due Friday.
Trello: Due dates on cards. A calendar view needs a power-up or another app.
Maker's Schedule: Projects by client with themes, Next up, and done. Tasks stay tied to who pays you.
Trello: One board per client, or one big board. Billing usually lives somewhere else.
Maker's Schedule: Contracts with payment terms. Client records for invoices and schedules.
Trello: Attach a PDF to a card, if you're lucky.
Maker's Schedule: Money page for income, expenses, and tax. Home shows month income next to workload.
Trello: Not in the product. Spreadsheet or another subscription.
If this sounds familiar, you are not alone.
You check three places before you know what to do next. Maker's Schedule puts follow-ups, project tasks, and the calendar in one app.
Trello tells you what's due. Home tells you which hours on Wednesday and Thursday are for delivery versus follow-ups.
Mark won, create the client, start Next up tasks. In Trello you make a board, copy the brief, rebuild checklists.
Done on the board doesn't mean paid. Money and Home connect work to income and expenses so you are not surprised when bills land.
Not kanban boards. Pipeline stages and project task lists move work from open to done. They connect to clients, calendar, and money.
For a small task list, yes. Once you track deals, contracts, hours, and invoices, most people add two or three more tools.
No automatic import. Most people move active clients and open deals first, then stop using Trello for the business side.
Trello is simpler because it does less. Maker's Schedule takes a bit longer on day one because it covers more of the solo business.
Maker's Schedule is for when you are updating CRM, calendar, and spreadsheet by hand around a board that only holds tasks.