After a longish break resulting from changing our publishing schedule from monthly to quarterly, here is the latest issue of Productive! Magazine :-)

Inside No.31: interview with Grace Marshall on work-life rhythm-not-balance and being really productive and articles on workflow optimization, making working as a team, work as well as transparency and exercises as a productivity booster.

This interview can’t be missed

No.31 comes with a great interview with Grace Marshall - a naturally disorganised productivity coach, chief encourager at grace-marshall.com and a productivity ninja with the team at Think Productive :-)

She speaks with Michael about the work-life rhythm that should replace the work-life balance. She also gives some tips on how to be really productive not just busy and how to deal with the guilt that distracts and holds you back.

Grace and Michael also talk about Grace’s new book called “How to Be Really Productive."

“Guilt has you thinking that every time you move forward, you’re moving backwards somewhere else. And so, when you’re dealing with guilt (…) one of the first things to do is to actually take a step back and go, “Okay, let’s start with… Let’s start with enough."

Nozbe is used by hundreds of thousands of people all over the world. For all of them efficiency and smart time-planning are the principles that let them enjoy their lives and stay on top of the things.

Who is Jeff Sanders?

Jeff Sanders, the host of “The 5 A.M. Miracle Podcast” is one of Nozbe power users and productivity gurus. He is also a public speaker, author, a 10-time marathon runner, passionate raw vegan and a big fan of taking bold action. And don’t worry - he doesn’t keep his knowledge and experiences to himself.

See how the 5 A.M. miracle works in real life

As Jeff’s new book: The 5 A.M. Miracle: Dominate Your Day Before Breakfast has just been published, he spoke to Michael about what he wrote about and how waking up early will actually help you use your time wisely and get a lot more done.

Jeff convinces that if you read his book you will get a list of think you could do to change your life!

A few weeks ago, we announced a major new version of Nozbe, 2.5, featuring a brand new design and a bunch of new features for Android, iOS, and Apple Watch users. There’s only one problem: the new Nozbe still isn’t available on App Store. We think we owe you an apology and an explanation. What happened The problem began when we decided to update our Apple Watch app to watchOS 2.

I’m writing this on Saturday morning just after the crazy “Black Friday” sale we celebrated here at Nozbe yesterday. And still celebrating! The special offer is valid all through the Thanksgiving weekend with Cyber Monday included so it’s still not too late to take advantage and get a few additional months of Nozbe free. But today I wanted to write about why this offer is a actually a perfect thing for our customers. Yes, it’s good for business but it’s actually better for you, our amazing user. And not just because you’re being offered an amazing value for money. It’s more than that:

Just in time for December and New Year

It’s all about timing. The Thanksgiving weekend is the last weekend of November so if you choose to upgrade to Nozbe PRO now you have December to actually sum up your year and prepare for a great next year. You have a whole month to get to know our tool, get all of our apps and start getting organized. Start putting all of your tasks and ideas to your inbox, start organizing tasks into projects, start creating your first categories… Most of all, start forming new habits around your new productivity system.

And over the Christmas break you’ll have some time to watch my 10-step Productivity Course and study Nozbe tutorial and our comprehensive help page with many other videos. With all that knowledge you’ll make your next year the best ever. And not just that:

Only last week, we introduced the first Nozbe.HOW templates and showed you how you can create yours. Today, as a thank you for being a fantastic member of our productive Nozbe community, our team has prepared a special Thanksgiving template: Open Nozbe’s Perfect Thanksgiving Template Just follow the steps in the template to get your perfect Thanksgiving done… or in other words, to spend a fantastic weekend full of joy and thankfullness.

Nozbe 2.5 for Android now features Quick Add notification which allows for quick task adding from any screen on your device without opening Nozbe app itself. All you have to do is pull down the notification bar, tap on the always visible “Add task to Nozbe” notification and enter task name. Oh, and you can also specify any Project, Category or delegation using hashtag notation. We think this is a big deal and if you want to know why, you should really read this post.

Next month, we want to revolutionize the world of productivity and we need your help! Preview of Nozbe.how - public Nozbe project templates Today, on our Nozbe test blog we published the Release Candidate of Nozbe 2.6 which lets you share your project templates with the world! And we want to invite you to create your best how-to lists and share them with others. Why I’m so excited about this? Watch my short video explaining Nozbe.

November is the big month for us. We can finally show you first part of all the big things we were working on for the last couple of months. We could not be more thrilled to present you (our great community of Nozbe users) the newest Nozbe 2.5. We put enormous effort into it. Refreshed design Some of you may know about our Design Fight meetings every Wednesday. Nozbe 2.5 with refreshed design is the first fruit of these fights and it contains:

November is my favorite month of all. On one hand it’s almost the year’s end, so we’re already planing the next one… but on the other, we’re finishing everything we’ve been working on this past year: Nozbe redesign and new Nozbe templates… and at the end of this month we’ll celebrate it all with Thanksgiving :-) If you listened to The Podcast, you’d already know about some of it… Here’s what happened: Back in June me and our VP of Apple technologies, Radek, decided to start recording a podcast together.

I met Phil Libin (Evernote’s then-CEO) and Andrew Sinkov (Evernote’s VP Marketing) back in 2009 on the GTD Summit Conference in San Francisco and we quickly realized our products were a great match for a partnership. I really liked the idea of storing my notes in Evernote and tasks in Nozbe, so finding a way for both apps to work together made so much sense… and a boost for my productivity! This is how Evernote + Nozbe integration was born in 2010. But a lot has happened since then. Last year we launched Nozbe 2.0 with revisited integration and Evernote reminders sync and it was praised by our users. Now with the latest Nozbe we tweaked it even more and created a separate video to show this to you:

Here’s our newest short video showing Nozbe and Evernote in action:

In short, here’s what you can do if you want to attach a note to Evernote: