Getting Things Done Blog - Nozbe http://www.nozbe.com http://www.nozbe.com Wed, 14 May 2008 16:13:18 GMT HittRSS FREE RSS Feed Publishing Service at http://HitRSS.com http://www.hitrss.com/logo/nozbe.jpg Nozbe - Get Things Done http://www.nozbe.com en-us Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe Nozbe for iPhone - faster and with new features! http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/45dd35f7-nozbe-for-iphone---faster-and-with-new-features!

Last two weeks we've been working hard on speeding up the iNozbe application (Nozbe for the iPhone) and I must say lots of improvements have been made to iNozbe:

  • The interface is a whole lot faster - thanks to improved Javascript and lower page loads, using iNozbe with your EDGE connection on the iPhone should be a smooter experience, especially if you've got lots of projects and lots of tasks/actions and notes.
        
  • You can now show/hide notes on the iPhone just as you'd do it on the "big" web-based Nozbe. Very handy for accessing only the notes you care about and again, lowering the application load on your iPhone for yet more speed!
        
  • You can filter your Next Actions by Project/Context and display only one task per project - just like on the big Nozbe. Easier to get things done when on the go with the iPhone!
        
  • You can share/delegate tasks with your colleagues, friends and family. Especially now with the introduction of the Family/Small Team Plan, you'll be able to manage your entire team with the iPhone as the "weapon" of choice :-)
        
  • You can edit/delete projects through the iPhone interface as well, yet more power under your fingers.
        
  • We're not done just yet! We'll be introducing new features to the iNozbe together with the new introductions to the web-based Nozbe, so stay tuned!
Hope you like the new enhancements. We're enjoying developing new and greater Nozbe for you.

Please remember that only until this Wednesday, May 14th, you can take advantage of the special offer for the new, Nozbe Family plan. You can get up to 6 Nozbe accounts for a monthly price lower than a single PRO plan!

   

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]]> Mon, 12 May 2008 15:55:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss15 Tips on GTD at Home - Your Family Can Get Things Done! http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/e40d35c5-tips-on-gtd-at-home---your-family-can-get-things-done! Yesterday we've announced GTD for families with Nozbe and if you're still hesitating, I've got a few tips for you.

Today my new article has been published on GTD Times blog:

GTD at Home - Your Family Can Get Things Done!

I'm introducing GTD to my family now and I've compiled a series of tips from other successful GTDers:

"I had a pleasure of talking to other fellow GTD-practitioners about their positive experiences at their homes. This short article will include tips and tricks for implementing GTD at home gathered from my friends’ homes and from my very own." (keep reading...)



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]]> Thu, 08 May 2008 18:10:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss14 Gift For Your Family from Nozbe - GTD in Families! http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/fa3a35bb-gift-for-your-family-from-nozbe---gtd-in-families! Today I have a gift for you and your family. You'll love it.

Just imagine...

Wouldn't it be great if everyone around you would get more done and everything would be ready on time, stress-free?

Nozbe's main mission for this year is to help not only you to get things done, but the people closest to you - your colleagues, friends and relatives.

We even want your family to simply get things done!

Earlier this year we've introduced Business Accounts to Nozbe and businesses of 15, 40, 100 or more people are now getting things done with Nozbe!

Nozbe Business Accounts feature an additional "What's new page?", Message Board shared among all members and one-click project sharing and collaboration.

What about smaller teams? What about your Family?

Teams of 3-6 people... and families also want to benefit from the goodies of Business Accounts and get more done... together!

Introducing Nozbe for Family / Small Team
  • up to 6 Nozbe Accounts in one package
  • up to 1400 projects for all of you!
  • up to 4 GB of storage space
  • up to 140 custom contexts shared
PLUS all the Business Account goodies:
  • Message Board
  • Custom Branding
  • Your own subdomain: myfamily.getalldone.com

Nozbe for Family is priced very competitively but if you order today, you'll get an early-bird bonus and when you decide for a prepaid subscription, you'll spend less than on a monthly single PRO rate!

 To view the details of this great offer, just log in to your Nozbe account and click on the link:



One Note though - offer expires on Wednesday, May 14th, so hurry up!

Good luck with introducing your family to the highly-productive world of "Simply Getting Things Done!"


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]]> Wed, 07 May 2008 15:10:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss13 GTD with Apple Mac Dashboard widgets - powered by Nozbe http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/a10234f8-gtd-with-apple-mac-dashboard-widgets---powered-by-nozbe get things done with Nozbe on any Mac without opening Nozbe.com web site in your browser.

Just have a look at the video showing you how this can be accomplished:



As you can see, the widget uses the same iNozbe interface that you already enjoy on your iPhone.

Additional bonus: we are currently working hard on adding new cool features to the iNozbe interface and your dashboard widget will get them as well - so your widget will be even more powerful very soon!


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]]> Thu, 24 Apr 2008 20:35:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss12 It's just 2 minutes! ...and it's a lot of time! http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/e96534da-it\s-just-2-minutes!-...and-it\s-a-lot-of-time! GTD Times blog - "It’s just 2 minutes!… and it’s a lot of time!" - head along and have a read (it will take you two minutes) and feel free to comment. It's an article about the famous 2-minute rule David Allen invented.



I've also introduced a small 120-second timer in Nozbe - I'll talk about it tomorrow.]]> Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:15:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss11 Nozbe - exciting new road ahead! http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/da5d348c-nozbe---exciting-new-road-ahead!
Thanks to you - my users who just love getting things done!

Nozbe - simply get things done! has transformed from a side-project by my company, apivision.com into a fully-fledged business. I've spent the great part of this month re-arranging everything to ensure nice and steady Nozbe growth.

As you know, last week my dream came true and I managed to get to know David Allen personally and take part in his GTD Seminar.



Today I'd like to reveal some of the details of Nozbe's path in front of us:

  1. I just hired new "development power" - a very talented programmer to help us finish the features we've been long creating for Nozbe
         
  2. iNozbe will be receiving a great feature boost and speed enhancement so it'll be even nicer to use on the iPhone, with iGoogle and also on the Apple's Dashboard.
       
  3. Deeper 3rd party integration is being finished now, including iCal, RSS and more...
       
  4. The "Projects" section will finally receive a boost, it will be even easier for you to manage projects, tag and archive them...
      
  5. Processing Inbox will be even more fun! You'll see but I'm already excited!
        
  6. This blog and the forums will be moved to an integrated infrastructure so that you can comment on these posts easier and you can chat with one another without having to log in again to the forums!
       
  7. All-powerful and quick Search is coming to Nozbe!
         
  8. More and more stuff is coming! Stay tuned!
We are also working on a brand new "help" section in Nozbe and a few other enhancements... I'm really excited as to what we have in front of us!

Again, I'd like to thank you all for being great Nozbe users and would like to apologize I wasn't so visible on the forums lately. I've been working like crazy on the new forums and blog and they should be out in a few days... and I'll be participating in the discussion even more than before!

Thanks guys! and have the rest of the week a very productive one!

- Michael]]> Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:25:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss10 Nozbe on GTD Seminar with David Allen! http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/5b1a3410-nozbe-on-gtd-seminar-with-david-allen! David Allen is coming to my town and I've signed up for the his GTD seminar and will spend the whole day today listening to my personal productivity "guru".



Don't get me wrong. I know the GTD book almost by heart and I have a copy in English, German and Polish language (I'm buying the Spanish version soon) - luckily I speak all of these languages.

But reading a book doesn't compare to see the author in action in one of his seminars. Thanks for supporting Nozbe I had the money to pay for the seminar (It's quite pricey at $1K) and I can participate and meet David in person. I'm very excited.

BTW. New features and functionality is coming to Nozbe but I'll tell you more about it the next week.

Yours truly - Michael "Nozbe" Sliwinski


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]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:30:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss9 Video Step 5 - Reference Materials - 10-step Simply Get Things Done Course http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/d27b3411-video-step-5---reference-materials---10-step-simply-get-things-done-course 10-step Simply Get Things Done course brought to you by Nozbe - your web application for GTD.

Click here to read the entire Step 5 about "Reference Materials" >>

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]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:05:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss8 The Power of Cranking Widgets http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/9a0f33ff-the-power-of-cranking-widgets GTDtimes.com

and today I wrote another post there about "the Power of Cranking Widgets". Enjoy!



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]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:20:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss7 Natural Born GTDers and their habits: are you one of the few? http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/28533384-natural-born-gtders-and-their-habits:-are-you-one-of-the-few? David Allen Company:

GTDtimes.com

I wrote a guest post about "natural born GTDers" - people who have mastered GTD without even being aware of the existence of Getting Things Done. I encourage you to read this post:

Natural Born GTDers and their habits: are you one of the few?



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]]> Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:00:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss6 Video Step 4 - Contexts - 10-step Simply Get Things Done Course http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/40bf333a-video-step-4---contexts---10-step-simply-get-things-done-course 10-step Simply Get Things Done course brought to you by Nozbe - your web application for GTD.

Click here to read the entire Step 4 about "Contexts" >>

Feel free to sign up for Nozbe to see how you can put what you've learned into practice.

 


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]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:35:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss5 Video Step 3 - Next Actions - 10-step Simply Get Things Done Course http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/68da3322-video-step-3---next-actions---10-step-simply-get-things-done-course 10-step Simply Get Things Done course brought to you by Nozbe - your web application for GTD.

Click here to read the entire Step 3 about "Next Actions" >>

Feel free to sign up for Nozbe to see how you can put what you've learned into practice.

 


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]]> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:45:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss4 Video Step 2 - Organize stuff into Projects - Simply Get Things Done course http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/81bd32f9-video-step-2---organize-stuff-into-projects---simply-get-things-done-course Today I'm posting the 2nd lesson of the "Simply Get Things Done Course - From 0 to productivity in 10 simple steps" course.

Here's the video: Step 2. Projects

Click here to read the entire Step 2 and learn even more about Projects >>

I'll be posting the videos on this blog (each day a new one) and you'll be easily able to access them all on a dedicated "Simply Get Things Done Course" page. Hope you'll enjoy this video-course. If you like it, please don't hesitate to digg this post and make sure you let me know in the comments.

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]]> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:30:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss3 Learn GTD in 10 Easy Steps - Video of Step 1 - Clear your head - Inbox http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/237432ee-learn-gtd-in-10-easy-steps---video-of-step-1---clear-your-head---inbox Hope you remember my "Simply Get Things Done Course - From 0 to productivity in 10 simple steps".

Many people loved it but they asked for more... a video tutorial or something like that. Well, I've posted the 28-minute video of my last workshop where I was showing the 10-step course.

Still, while many people loved it, not everyone has the time to watch half an hour straight video, especially when it's during your work day.

So I came up with short (3-5 minutes each) videos showing each of the lessons and indicating the practical application of "GTD - Getting Things Done" methods and how Nozbe supports them.

Here's the fist video: Step 1. Clear your head

I'll be posting the videos on this blog (each day a new one) and you'll be easily able to access them all on a dedicated "Simply Get Things Done Course" page:

Hope you'll enjoy this video-course. If you like it, please don't hesitate to digg this post and make sure you let me know in the comments.

 


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]]> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:40:00 GMT http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe#rss2 Getting Things Done with Twitter and Nozbe using SMS, Jabber and more! http://blogs.hitrss.com/nozbe/4fbd32ad-getting-things-done-with-twitter-and-nozbe-using-sms,-jabber-and-more! Twitter is the Internet phenomenon - it’s a simple social web service that is answering one simple question - what are you doing now? With Twitter you can post your current status updates, your friends can follow what you’re doing and you can check out what they are up to.

And starting from today you can Get Things Done with Twitter!

If you’re a Twitter-addict like millions of other users all over the world, you’re "living in Twitter" and you’re frequently posting your updates and sending direct messages to your friends - this new feature is just for you!

Now you can send a direct Twitter message to Nozbe...

...and it will convert the message into an action!

But that’s not all! Twitter is so incredibly powerful because you can post status updates and messages with Twitter not only using the web, but also email, SMS message, Jabber... and other communication methods, meaning:

You can now send SMS, Jabber, etc. messages to Nozbe using Twitter and get things done!

And it’s so simple! Just follow these two steps:

1 - Tell Nozbe your Twitter ID:

Just log in to your Nozbe account and click on "Extras!", write your Twitter ID and click on the button to save it.

2 - OK, that’s it, you’re done! Just send direct messages to Nozbe!

There is nothing more to set up, just go to your Twitter account and send direct message to Nozbe like this:

d nozbe This is my new task!

Or alternatively go to direct messages section and choose Nozbe from the list of recipients and send your task there.

Impotrtant note: We want to be nice to Twitter and Nozbe is checking the messages every few minutes so it can take up to 10 minutes for your direct messages to get converted into actions and added to your Nozbe account, so please be patient :-)

You can send tasks to any of your projects!

By default, the tasks sent from Twitter will land in the first project on your list, however if you want, don’t forget that you can use task parameters to send tasks to different projects, contexts and define their time, date, etc.

Please read our earlier post for detailed specifications, but here there are some examples:

d nozbe Walk the dog (P Private) (@ Home) (T 30 min)

Will add a task "Walk the dog" to your "Private" project and "Home" context and the task will last 30 minutes.

d nozbe Finish the presentation (P MyCompany) (D today) (N)

Will add a task "Finish the presentation for customer" to the "MyCompany" project and will set the deadline for today... and will set it up as "Next Action"!

Isn’t that powerful? It’s the full power of Nozbe available to you via SMS, Jabber and other great communication channels thanks to the great flexibility of Twitter.

Start getting things done with Twitter today!

 

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