Today is a special day for Nozbe. It’s May 14, and exactly 8 years ago today we officially launched Nozbe. We were out of “beta” test phase. We introduced paid plans. We started our productivity business. And we’ve been serving you ever since. Let’s celebrate Nozbe’s 8th anniversary together! I’ve got 2 great news for you today: 1 - New Nozbe 2.1.6 will help you get more done thanks to lots of fixes based on your suggestions and major improvements to gestures.

Recurring tasks seem to be a constant source of confusion to many. Let me walk you through this option in Nozbe and provide a couple of extra hints. Definition Recurring task in Nozbe is an action that you do repeatedly at regular intervals. Full description thereof can be found at our Help Page. How to create one? Create a task either using the “+” icon or the “a” short-cut. You can then set the recurrence by using the hash parameter.

Today, April 24 2015, a very exciting new product hit the market — the Apple Watch. We’ve already announced that we were working on a version of Nozbe for the Watch, but we’ve never really said when we were going to release it. The answer is: we already have. That’s right. If you have your Apple Watch tethered with your iPhone, all you have to do is update the Nozbe app to 2.

I believe everyone knows there are comments to tasks in Nozbe. Yet, it seems not all see a point in that. Therefore a question - to comment or not to comment - arises.

All about comments

Most of us are aware of the definition and the basic use as per instructions found on Nozbe Help Page. Their principal function is to facilitate communication on issues relevant to a given task within a team.

And that’s just great. Once your team gets disciplined about it, the function can replace emailing almost entirely and thus save much time.

Attachments that can be added to comments are a great way of speeding up your work and storing relevant reference materials in order to make everything clear.

You can also email tasks already with comments to Nozbe or add comments via email at later time.

That’s all great, you may say, but what is the point then of this post? Well… here it is:

Alternative uses of comments - notes

One of the most obvious secondary uses are simply notes. If you do not share the project with anyone, or even when you do, you might wish to add things to your own tasks.. in that case they become your notes.

We kicked off 2015 with lots of power, expanded our team and focused on polishing the new Nozbe 2.0 (which we launched a few months ago). You’ll love what we’ve got for you: After the latest auto-update you should be now operating Nozbe 2.1.4. Here are some new goodies we’ve prepared: You will now find Affiliate Program details in your Settings section in Nozbe We’ve made Payment Change/Update options also more convenient for you Adding tasks to the list with active filters automatically adds parameters from these filters Improved Capture Photo option in Nozbe Android app and lots of minor fixes and improvements - we managed to add this extra layer of polish thanks to your feedback!

Like most of tech industries, we watched the Apple Event yesterday. And now we know for sure:  Watch is real, it’s coming very soon (end of April in first countries - which happen to be the countries where we have most of our customers: USA, UK, Japan…) and yes, we’re building an  Watch Nozbe app for you: We can’t wait to show it to you. The best part? You won’t have to download anything extra to get this new app, it’ll come as a part of your Nozbe app for your iPhone.

Hope you’re on the right track with your goals for 2015! In the last blogpost, we presented a short video about how to get your goals done in Nozbe - did you like it? Have you planned your goals yet? Since my last email we’ve improved the video to make it easier to follow - make sure to watch it again! Did you know that as a Nozbe PRO user you can create an additional Nozbe account for your partner absolutely free?

What if I tell you it’s still not too late to make this year your best yet? We’re approaching the end of January. According to research, most of us have already forgotten about our New Year’s resolutions… but I believe we can still get them done! Nozbe is here to help! Watch this short 1-minute video: [10 steps to getting your goals done:][goals] Learn how to achieve your goals…

Since the introduction of Nozbe 2.0+ version an impression of confusion about the use of Categories seems to glare at us through the emails of our users. Everyone may need a hand… … thus we have described how to use Categories in the tutorial and also on the help page. However, it seems the both of those sources did not provide deep enough explanation. Categories, previously known as Contexts: a few tricks As most of you recall, Categories previously were called Contexts.

This is a guest post by one of our Nozbe power users: Michael Hyatt, who is the author of the “New York Times” bestseller, “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World.” He is also the founder of Platform University and the massively popular course, 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever.

If you are going to achieve your goals in 2015, you must have a way to track your progress, so you actually achieve it. There are a variety of tools for doing this. However, Nozbe is a great choice.

I don’t know about you, but Nozbe is my personal “command center.” It is the place where I plan, track, and accomplish my most important taks. I couldn’t get along without it.

But did you know you can also use it to help you achieve your most important goals for 2015? There are three advantages of doing so: