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Nozbe client for iPhone and iPad

February 1, 2013 by Gleb Reys 2 Comments

Nozbe

Just in time to celebrate Nozbe‘s 6 years in business, a new Nozbe client for iOS devices (iPhone/iPad) is available as of today!

I’ve just downloaded the app and must say I’m impressed:

  • it feels snappy enough on my rather dated iPhone 4 – scrolling through the lists is very smooth 
  • there’s fully-featured comments support: checklists, etc! Wohoo! :)
  • sync is faster and less visible, just the way it should be
  • design makes the most of the available space – in addition to labels, some contexts are shown using icons
  • both screen orientations are supported, I haven’t decided yet which one I like most
  • best of all: the new Nozbe app is FREE! This means you can now fully test whether Nozbe is the right tool for you without having to pay anything – free accounts have enough features to be useful. Register here!

All in all, it’s a great and welcome start.

Well done Nozbe!

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: get it done, getting things done, gtd, nozbe, productivity

Starting 2013 with Nozbe

January 22, 2013 by Gleb Reys 1 Comment

 

Nozbe

Welcome to 2013! :)

I’m really excited to be giving Nozbe another try this year! I’ve been using the much earlier version of the product about 14 months ago and gave up after a few weeks. This time around I am planning to spend at least 2 months using Nozbe, so will be sure to post my findings in the coming weeks.

My requirements for a productivity software

Thanks to the past year of using Remember The Milk Pro, the expectations are quite high. If you haven’t used RTM before, here are just a few things that are implemented so incredibly well that I’ve grown to take them for granted:

  • super-easy yet very flexible way of quick tasks entry – for both web and iPhone
  • recurring tasks support with multiple notes – this is critical for me as I use it for tracking
  • quick and very useful search through your tasks and notes (including the ones I have completed)
  • web/iPhone/iPad clients for the solution
  • API so that there’s a potential to develop your own software based on the solution

Simply put, Remember The Milk is so elegant and efficient that it’s really hard to walk away from it. For lists-based productivity system this solution is simply perfect. But because I would like to get organised even more I thought there won’t be a better time to try a new solution than first thing in the new year.

My reasons for trying Nozbe

Projects support in Nozbe

I think it’s once again this part of my life that I would really like to get my projects organised. Nozbe has quite flexible support for projects, and after Remember The Milk I think I will benefit a lot by simply having an opportunity to put my tasks into respective projects.

A fairly recently added projects template support sounds like a very interesting feature – I have quite a few projects that are repetitive, so any way of automating their lifecycle will be a benefit.

Nozbe Desktop client

Although online solutions can match desktop app’s feature set and performance quite easily these days,  I still find that native OS integration helps. In case of productivity systems, the desktop version is important because I can use it when traveling. I’ve been flying almost every weekend for the past few months and it will be really nice to finally have an opportunity to work directly with the tasks and projects rather than create temporary copies in Evernote with a view to later import them (copy-paste or type all over again) into web-based solution.

Review (Calendar) functionality in Nozbe

I’ve been a long-time fan of the review functionality found in Remember The Milk, especially the daily reminder you can set up – I get a list of my tasks at 9am every morning and it has done wonders for improving my awareness of the tasks coming up on the day.

Nozbe has a very neat Calendar function in desktop version, it shows you overdue, current (today’s) and future tasks which seems a good way to review things and to get certain tasks completed and out of the way.

Integration with Evernote and Dropbox

I have close to 5000 entries in my Evernote account, and although I’ve been working hard on reducing this number in the past months, I still find quite a lot of information to be put into Evernote almost daily. Not all the things are tasks or projects – there’s quite a lot of reference material that may be used in the future.

With Nozbe’s integration I plan on fully utilising my Evernote account and automatically hooking reference material up with relevant projects.

The same goes for Dropbox – being my primary storage for ebooks and manuals and various cheatsheets, I love the way Dropbox syncs everything seamlessly between my devices. Being able to attach files to my projects or tasks in Nozbe is something I really look forward to. It makes a lot of sense and will potentially make for a very flexible productivity system that relies on various tools for what each one of them does best.

Rich Comments for tasks

Last but certainly not least, comes the comments support in Nozbe. As I mentioned earlier, multiple comments is a must for me because I’m using them for tracking progress within a task. This is especially true for recurring tasks I have for multiple habits I’m working on.

With Nozbe I found that it’s quite easy to add comments. I also notice that there’s a way to turn comments into checklists which may find its place in my workflow, so we’ll see in a few weeks.

Are you a Nozbe user?

If you are a seasoned Nozbe user, please take a few minutes to leave comment and let me know how you’re finding it so far. I’ve tried quite a few solutions in the past few years, so the last thing I want is to try and use Nozbe in exactly the way I’ve learned with some other software.

If you have time-saving tips or simply features that you absolutely love about Nozbe – mobile, web or desktop version – I sure hope you’ll find the time to share with me and other readers.

Not a Nozbe user yet? Register here and see how it can help you become productive!

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: get it done, getting things done, gtd, nozbe, productivity

Do you trust your tasks management system?

October 1, 2012 by Gleb Reys Leave a Comment

Every week there's a few really important tasks that I forget. There may be too many tasks or just a few really time consuming assignments, but the bottom line is that there are always things that I can't remember, irrespective of their importance. I rarely miss deadlines with such forgotten tasks though, largely due to having a tasks management system. Without assuming that you already have such a system, I'd like to draw your attention to the important of not only having a system but also making sure that's a system you can fully trust.

Does everyone really need a system to manage tasks?

Depending on the number of daily incoming tasks, you may get away with having no system for managing them. But as soon as the number of tasks becomes overwhelming (you'll be surprised how small this number needs to be!), you'll start forgetting tasks or delaying their completion due to last-minute change of priorities.

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Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: getting things done, gtd, productivity

Keeping It Simple with Remember The Milk

September 25, 2012 by Gleb Reys Leave a Comment

 

I have just realized that it's been more than 6 months since I made the decision to incredibly simplify my daily tasks tracking and stick to the amazing Remember The Milk service. Having been one really happy customer of this service, I feel I owe a quick recap of my needs and a review of how RTM helped me meet them in a very elegant way.

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Filed Under: Software Tagged With: iphone productivity, productivity, productivity app, remember the milk, rtm, todo, todo app, todo lists

How To Have Best Days Ever – Again and Again

May 24, 2012 by Gleb Reys 1 Comment

One thing that amazes me lately is how happy most of the children are. Perhaps a combination of being excited and curious about each day’s adventures, something allows our kids to be happy without much of an apparent effort. Playful attitude and readiness to bend rules make a lot of things much easier than they appear to be.

Best Days Ever? That’s easy!

I’m always inspired by my 6-year old daughter, she finds challenge and fun in almost anything she comes across and this means she’s always excited  and focused, always expecting a surprise or a game to be the result of any situation. My daughter seems to have a lot of fun quite regularly, and one of her most favorite sayings is: “this is the best day ever!”. I hear this at least once a week as an indication that some ice-cream tasted nice or a day at school was fun or a road trip turned out to be an amazing adventure. [Read more…] about How To Have Best Days Ever – Again and Again

Filed Under: Happiness Tagged With: being happy, best day ever, Happiness, happy

5 Ways to Stay Organized with Dropbox

April 19, 2012 by Gleb Reys 2 Comments

Don’t know about you, but for me Dropbox has become one of the irreplaceable tools in the last few months.

Dropbox may be a bit pricey for syncing large amounts of data, but for most things the free 2 GB account is more than adequate (click here to get your account setup).

Here are just a few things I’m using Dropbox for:

  • Research notes for blog projects – there aren’t that many files that one would usually need for preparing the next blog post or a summary page. Dropbox helps a lot cause I can store all the photos/images/PDF docs/doc files in folders named after projects. [Read more…] about 5 Ways to Stay Organized with Dropbox

Filed Under: Software Tagged With: 1password, dropbox, mlo, mylifeorganized, productivity

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