Merry Christmas to All Nozbe Users!

Today we’re celebrating Christmas Eve and tomorrow’s Christmas Day.

I’d like to thank you all for your support and for making all our efforts possible. Hope you’ll spend a nice and merry Christmas with people close to you!

- Michael with the rest of the Nozbe Team

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(Preview 2) Nozbe for iPhone - Home Screen and Actions

We’re finishing up the testing phase of the Nozbe for iPhone app and hopefully we’ll have it submitted to the Appstore next week… and then we’ll just have to wait for the dear Apple company to accept our app as quickly as possible.

The Nozbe for iPhone Home Screen

Today I’d like to showcase the home screen of the iPhone app:

The screen has a main menu for easy iPhone-style navigation and the bottom menu for both navigation and adding stuff.

Main menu:

• Next Actions
• Projects
• Project Groups
• Contexts
• Calendar

Most of these are pretty similar to your current Nozbe.com interface and the “Project Groups” item is the same as the “Tags” in Nozbe.com. In the new Nozbe UI we’ll be renaming the Tags to Groups which we believe is more intuitive.

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Promote Nozbe's 10-Step Course - Affiliate Program Update

Many users have been emailing me that what convinced them to use Nozbe is the 10-step Simply Get Things Done video course, mostly because it helps them grasp the idea behind “Getting Things Done” better.

Many of Nozbe users who are bloggers or who simply promote Nozbe thanks to our Affiliate Program also expressed their interest in promoting the course first… and Nozbe later.

Now you can promote the course easily!

...actually you can promote any Nozbe.com page with your affiliate link.

When you click on the “Earn with Nozbe” link in your Nozbe account, you’ll see something like this:

As you can see in the example an affiliate URL has this at the end:

/a-XXXXXX

where /a- stands for telling the system that it’s about an affiliate url and XXXXXX stands for your unique affiliate ID.

Before the change you could only add this to the main www.nozbe.com address but now you can add it to any nozbe.com address. In my case, if I wanted to promote the first lesson of the 10-step course, I’d use this link:

http://www.nozbe.com/gtd/show/site-course1/a-C4CA1

If I wanted to promote Nozbe tour, I’d go with this link:

http://www.nozbe.com/gtd/tour/a-C4CA1

...and so on.

As you can see, I’ve simply added this to the end of my affiliate link.

Send the new link around!

Send this new affiliate URL to the people you know might be interested in the course. Once they get the basics of Getting Things Done with the 10-step course, they might easier convert to being Nozbe users like yourself!

While we’re working hard on the new User Interface for Nozbe and the iPhone app (more updates this Saturday!), we’ll be also redesigning the Nozbe web site and the site for the course… but the links will remain the same.

Spread the word about GTD (Getting Things Done) and help your friends and colleagues also get more done!

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Nozbe Community - welcome to the new Nozbe Forum!

Big changes are coming to Nozbe with new UI, iPhone App and more… as we integrate more devices and third party applications I always wanted to integrate the Nozbe Community Pages to Nozbe.

Although we’ve always had our Nozbe section in the forum.apivision.com site, I thought it would be more intuitive to integrate forums to Nozbe and make sure all Nozbe users can participate in the discussion without a need for a separate login.

This blog is a great example that this is a good direction. Lot’s of comments and community participation proved that we can make a forum as tightly integrated to the Nozbe app as the blog.

Introducing new Nozbe forum

at

Nozbe.com/Forum

Just have a look:

The new forum will only have two categories:

1. Feedback and Feature Requests
2. Bug Reports and Problems

I guess it’s easier now to decide where to post, right?

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Twitter me, Twitter Nozbe... and print Productive Magazine

Because of the launch of the Productive Magazine I decided to “socialize” online a little more and jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. Better late than never, right?

You can follow me on twitter here: twitter.com/MichaelNozbe

Remember you can send direct messages to Nozbe via Twitter?

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1st Productive Magazine Launched!

I’m happy to announce that we’ve just released the first issue of the Productive Magazine!

33 Pages, 17 articles, 3 MB FREE PDF download that looks like this:

Productive Magazine #1

Before you download… watch the video of me introducing you to the magazine (only 6 minutes):

To download, just click here!

What’s in the magazine:

• Interview with the David Allen himself – the best-selling author of the Getting Things Done book
• 17 great articles by the most active productivity bloggers in the blogoshpere, make sure to check these out!

Thanks to all the contributors and to everyone who helped me make this happen!

After you’ve downloaded the magazine, please do come back to this web site and post your comments to let me know what you think! Thanks!

- Michael Sliwinski (Editor)

P.S. Productive Magazine is sponsored by Nozbe :-)

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(Preview 1) Nozbe for iPhone - the Sync

I know you’re waiting for this app. Believe me, we are too. It just takes so much time to get this thing done right, but we’re wrapping this up.

We’re busy testing Nozbe for iPhone…

And right now we’re finishing up the syncing feature of the app to make sure it syncs flawlessly with your Nozbe.com account.

When you download Nozbe for iPhone it will greet you with a nice welcome screen, where you’ll be able to either start right away with a free app (with the same limits as the free Nozbe.com account) or you’ll just sync with your current Nozbe account.

After that, you’ll be able to use the app offline and play with it to get your stuff done.

Here’s a screenshot for adding new task and for browsing contexts:

More about the sync…

Nozbe for iPhone will sync with your current Nozbe.com account both manually and automatically.

• Manual synchronization

It was our logic choice that you might want to sync “on demand”... so one click and you’re syncing already.

• Automatic synchronization

This is the harder part. We didn’t know if you wanted to sync every 5 minutes, after every “action” like adding/removing/editing stuff… so we decided to cut the times you’re syncing and Nozbe will sync each time after it’s launched and after it’s closed.

Note: You will be able to disable auto-sync anytime so that it doesn’t try to sync when you’re abroad or on the plane.

What do you say? How do you want Nozbe for iPhone to sync? Is it the way you imagined it? Post your comments on Nozbe for iPhone below… it’s coming to the iPhone near you very soon…

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