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:

Last week we were on the Nozbe Reunion where we spent a great week together. We had some fun and enjoyed each other’s company which is very important for a team that most of the year spends time working remotely from our homes. In case you were wondering, Nozbe is not just me so in this post you’ll get to know some of the people who help me get you more organized:

One of the questions I keep getting is why I named my productivity product “Nozbe”? It doesn’t mean anything in English… so why this name? Maybe it means something in some other language? Well, not really… so in this post let me share the story behind the Nozbe name with you… Nozbe = To BE Naturally OrganiZed When I was in college, back in 2000, me and my friend Wiktor were dreaming of running an Internet company some day and changing the world.

This week of September 21-25 we’re on our semi-annual Nozbe team reunion where we all meet together in one place to work together, brainstorm ideas and basically make Nozbe more awesome. Unlike a “traditional” company we’re all working remotely from our homes so these two times per year are the only moments that we all see each other. And we’re 24-person strong team now. We’re very excited. Here’s what it also means to you, our Nozbe users:

As you know, every Nozbe PRO account is actually “2 in 1”, meaning, you get 2 accounts for the price of 1. Yes, you can use Nozbe on your own, but you can also go to the “Team” section and put the email address of your partner and create an additional account for them, completely free. Do you want to know how I work with my assistant? I can’t do everything alone.

Sharing projects and teams is one of the most confusing matters to our users.

Definitions

For safety please allow me to start with definitions. For some users this is not a secret as it can be read about on Nozbe Help Page. The matter, in fact, is so simple that it seems confusing to many and is related to Nozbe’s history.

Inviting someone to your Nozbe team DOES NOT mean inviting them to your projects. Statement seems logical enough, right? Well, it is like inviting a friend to a party. You invite him over, yet that does not mean automatically he will or should get involved in all conversations and activities going on at it.

So what’s the deal?

Once you invite someone to join your team… what happens?

1. You see them on your “team members list”

2. You pay for their access to the service BUT 3. you neither give them access to all your projects, nor you get access to all of their projects.

Once you share a project… what happens?

You grant them access to all data within that project but nothing else.

A few months ago, we’ve decided to double down our efforts on Apple platforms. Many of us at Nozbe are happy users of Macs and iOS devices, and so we wanted to bring more features, improvements and refinements to our apps there.

You might have noticed the results over the last few versions. We released one of the first apps for Apple Watch, then redesigned it just two months later. And in the lastest version, Mac users got a Today widget (just like the one we have on iOS).

But we’re just getting started. We have a ton of improvements in the pipeline. Here’s just a few examples of what we’re working on for the iOS 9 release in September:

Multi-tasking on iPad

If you’re on an iPad, you’ll love this one. In iOS 9, you can swipe your finger from the right edge of the screen to see your tasks in Nozbe. You don’t have to leave the app you’re using, go to home screen or double-tap the home button. Just swipe from the right and you can slide Nozbe over other apps. This is useful when you just want a quick glance at your priority tasks, or when you want to quickly add a task to your inbox.

It gets even better if you’re using iPad Air 2. After sliding Nozbe over, you can drag the separator to enable split view. This way, you can use Nozbe side-by-side with another app. For example, you can compose an email while looking at your notes in Nozbe.