Valentine’s Day. Or Feast of Saint Valentine… It began as a liturgical celebration of a Christian saint named Valentinus. About 300 years ago in England, it evolved into an occasion on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery, and sending greeting cards.

Today, it’s celebrated in many countries all around the world, although, probably, it is not a public holiday in any of them.

Whether you prefer Valentines or Anti-Valentines we have something for you!

And while many of us want to spend Valentine’s Day in a traditional way (Americans, for example, will spend $18.9 billion on Valentine’s Day this year!… And they will also spend more than $700 million on Valentine’s gifts … for their pets :-)), in some countries many Anti-Valentines parties will take place. Apparently, some people want to express their annoyance with the way 14 February got commercialized…

One thing is sure: as far as we’re living in a free world we can celebrate it as we want to :)

Dozens of your photos appeared in social media after publishing #NozbeOffice post on Nozbe blog. Now, we’ve got an awesome #NozbeOffice gallery!

When we started the celebration of Nozbe’s 9th birthday, we were sure that Nozbe Users will participate in our joy and fun. But what happened later, was beyond our wildest dreams!

Now we want to sum up this action. It’s impossible to show all pictures, so we decided to pick some of the best of #NozbeOffice sets and put them together in one place.

Did you know that with Nozbe you can save a project as a template for later? Like a packing list, recipe or a longer checklist. Once you’ve saved a template, you can go to “Templates” in your Nozbe account and create a new project from it. But there’s more! Now you can share your templates - with just one person or with the whole world! Just go to the settings of your template and choose to “Share your template” and you’ll be given a unique Nozbe.

Happy birthday Nozbe! Today marks 9 years of helping more than 300,000 busy professionals and their teams from all over the world get everything done! Nozbe 3.0 is here with better design, business accounts and a completely new logo!

To learn more about Nozbe 3.0, check out our short video:

Now that you’ve watched the video, let me tell you (1) how can you get Nozbe 3.0, (2) what’s new in 3.0, (3) some more details about new Nozbe for Business and finally (4) our newest NOZBE3 special offer. Here goes:

1. Nozbe 3.0 is available today on most of the 9 major platforms we support:

• Web Application for Chrome, IE, Safari and Firefox
• iPad and iPhone app (+ Apple Watch)
• Android app (phones & tablets)
• Mac app (direct download)
• Mac App Store version
• Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 app
• Linux 64bit and 32bit
• Windows Phone app (beta)

Another day, another freebie for You! Hopefully you remember our video course called „10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity.” Many people (not only Nozbe users) successfully used this huge dollop of knowledge to improve their lives. Because of that we prepared an audio version of this course so that you can access it even more easily. Today, as we are still celebrating Nozbe’s 9th birthday, we’d like to give it to you for free - „10 Steps to Ultimate Productivity Audiobook” - download it as MP3 files.

Last June me (Michael, Nozbe founder) and Radziu (Nozbe VP Apple Technologies) launched a podcast called, The Podcast as an experiment. This week we’ve aired 31st episode and we stick to the weekly schedule. If you’re not listening to it, here’s what you’re missing: How we work on Nozbe How we do meetings and manage the Nozbe team of 24 without a shared physical office space Insider corner - what’s new at Nozbe, what’s coming, what we are up to Space corner and Tesla corner - why we love what Elon Musk is doing - the future Apple corner - we talk about gadgets from our favorite fruit company Books corner - the books we read and recommend Fitness corner - how we work out and lose weight And a lot more… And in the last episode we talked a lot about the upcoming Nozbe 3.

Nozbe’s birthday celebrations continue. We hope you like all the gifts we’ve prepared for you so far :-)

Nozbe will help you grow your business!

Today, we would like to talk a little bit about the productivity of your team. See, what we can do together to help your business grow.

Nozbe matures - from personal productivity to effective cooperation in teams

9 years ago, back in 2007, Nozbe started as a GTD-based personal productivity tool designed to meet mostly our CEO’s needs ;)

Over the years, listening to your feedback, we added the project sharing feature. Then, multi-personal accounts were introduced. The team collaboration flow and communicating through tasks soon became one of our priorities and strengths.

Today, we are taking Nozbe to a whole new level by creating special Business accounts dedicated to companies and teams willing to boost their productivity!

Nozbe 3.0 Business Plans - see how you can maximize your team’s efficiency

We believe that essential factors affecting team productivity are:

• the right use of technology,
• instant access to the workplace information,
• effective and well-managed communication,
• planning and setting “S.M.A.R.T.” goals,
• analyzing progress and reviewing objectives…

…and Nozbe works great in each of these fields.

The big day is coming. We are putting finishing touches to Nozbe 3.0 and cannot wait to share it with our great Nozbe users. We hope this will be the best gift for you to celebrate our 9th birthday :) And your feedback will be the best gift for us!

Today, we wanted to share some highlights from Nozbe 3.0:

New logo

It was back in August 2015 when our designer Hubert prepared a blogpost on our internal blog with a project of a new Nozbe logo. When Michael saw it he got a bit mad… because he realised how much he liked the new logo and that the change was necessary ;) I mean seriously! The new logo is so beautiful that Hubert was crying with tears of joy while drawing it. True story! ;)

New task details column

The new logo is the icing on the cake of a new design. With Nozbe 2.5 and 2.6 we introduced some major changes to the app design. We brought a new font, new colors, new icons, refreshed side panels and task list appearance. The last part of the app that needed a redesign was the task details column. That is kind of a place when the magic happens. In this view, you comment tasks, delegate them and complete them. You simply get everything done over there. First attempts to tweak the task details design were made in April 2015 but we could not agree on how it should look like. After months of discussions and tons of sketches we finally got to the solution which, although not so revolutionary, really improves the user experience.

Some time ago, we announced what’s going to happen this week. The launch of Nozbe 3.0 will be the final part of celebrating 9 years of the best productivity app on the market! By the time 3.0 is released, we want you to participate :) Working in an office, coffee house, park or at home - it doesn’t matter because “work is not a place to go, it’s a thing that you do.

Productive! Magazine is a regular dose of inspiring, practical and timeless articles written by the best productivity experts on the Internet. Over the years, it has given Nozbe users much inspriation and aid in their day-to-day work.

It seems that none of the material found therein has depreciated over time. Therefore, we have concluded to create a compilation of 5 really interesting articles along with accompanying Nozbe.how templates to let you implement the advice they offer right away :-)