Today is a big day for Nozbe as we are finally launching our desktop application for Mac and Windows.

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Download Nozbe for Mac OSX (10.6/10.7 Lion)

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Thanks to Nozbe for Desktop, both Mac and Windows users will be able to install Nozbe on their computers and get things done a lot faster even when they are not connected to the Internet.

Video 3 – Sharing and file uploads

Today we’re posting the third video showing you how Nozbe Desktop works when working together with teams:

YouTube link

If you have missed it, we have also posted two other videos:

Video 1 – New Nozbe Interface

Video 2 – Quick Task Entry with Auto-complete

Frequently Asked Questions:

1. What are the new features in the version 1.0 as opposed to the last beta?

- auto-sync – the sync is almost instantaneous and automatic, you don’t have to think about clicking on the Sync button again. You can, your desktop app will be in sync most of the time

- auto-complete – when you add a task, just write # and you’ll see an auto-complete box helping you choose project, context, time needed for it and much more. Write ## (two hashes) and you’ll be able to append a comment in-line when adding the task. It’s really sweet and speeds things up!

- editing/removing comments and better comment handling – now commenting on tasks just got a lot easier than ever.

- file upload – just open a project, drop a file to the Nozbe app and it will be automatically uploaded to the project you chose. So easy with drag and drop!

This is version 1.0, we’ve got many great improvements in the pipeline for the version 1.1 and beyond!

2. Why a native app? Is your web app not enough?

Our web-app is great, but there are couple of reasons why we wanted to go native:

a) It’s a totally redesigned user interface for Nozbe – it’s still your favorite Nozbe, but with improved interface, flows and ideas – after 5 years of running Nozbe we’ve got some cool ideas how to improve your productivity even more with a significantly improved interface.

We wanted to try this on our desktop app first because we still want you to feel “at home” with Nozbe web app – until you’ll hopefully fall in love with the new design and feel even more productive.

b) The native app is just faster, it works offline (without internet connection!), and thanks to the fact that you have your local app, you have a copy of your most important stuff on your computer. It’s just a better Nozbe experience.

3. How much will the app cost?

It will be free forever. We won’t charge our users for it at all – where we make money is the Nozbe subscription that syncs your data between your web app, iPhone, iPad and Android apps…

Try Nozbe Desktop app today!

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Download Nozbe for Mac OSX (10.6/10.7 Lion)
Mac OSX 10.5 version

One last thing – due to lengthy and complicated process of submitting the app to the Mac App Store – and lack of clear guidelines from Apple why our app doesn’t go through their approval process, Nozbe Desktop is not yet available on the Mac App Store. We’re working on this, but it may take some time to get there.

In this video I’d like to show you a neat trick that helps you add tasks to Nozbe really really quickly.

When you type a hash – you’ll see a list of auto-complete options. You can choose a due date, if it’s a next action, project… context… time needed to complete the task… or if this task should repeat every certain amount of time. This way you can add a task this quick, just look!

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We hope this great feature will help you add tasks quickly and get even more done with Nozbe desktop for Mac and Windows.

The app is coming tomorrow to a desktop machine near you :-)

The launch date of the new Nozbe Desktop app for Mac and Windows is coming soon! We are so excited to bring you this fantastic application. Over next few days we’ll be showing you the exciting new features of our desktop app. This is the first video narrated by yours truly:

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Thanks for watching this first intro video to Nozbe for Mac and Windows, we’ve been working hard on this one and we’re hoping you’ll love it as much as we did preparing it for you.

Apart from the amazing Nozbe updates, we’ve got a lot of new third-party apps coming with Nozbe integration or simply working with Nozbe beautifully. It’s time to highlight them on our blog.

First up: Nozbe To Do for iPad by Macoscope

As you might know, our iPad app is actually not our app – when we were considering building an iPad app we didn’t have the expertise to actually build one and we turned to our friends, authors of the iPublisher platform that powers our Productive! Magazine iPad app if they could do an iPad app. They could and they did but we wanted to be clear that they did and it was so good, that we let them be the official iPad app for Nozbe.

The app was $14.99 on the App Store – and with this purchase you have locally unlimited projects just like on our personal plan. If you choose to sync with Nozbe.com, you still have to sign up for the Nozbe plan but you can use the app independently just like other to-do apps on the iPad.

For a limited time it’s $9.99 on the App Store

If you’re an iPad user and you’re looking for a productivity tool on the iPad, make sure to check it out. Thanks Robert, Daniel, Zbigniew, Wojtek and other Macoscope guys for making it happen!

The past month we haven’t been communicating much as we’re nearing a few big launches. Now it’s time to show you what we’ve been up to the past few months and how we see 2012 for Nozbe users.

Our plans for upcoming weeks

1. Nozbe Desktop for Mac and Windows

Over the next two weeks we’ll be showcasing you the new exciting features of the Nozbe Desktop for Mac and Windows – to prepare for the big launch. The launch date has been scheduled for mid-March and we’ll announce exact date in the coming weeks.

Note to bloggers: if you’d like to participate in our big launch and get access to our release candidate version of our desktop app before anyone else in exchange of a write-up on your blog at the date of the launch, make sure to contact us!

2. iNozbe – Nozbe web for the mobile phones

New HTML5 interface of Nozbe web for the mobile phones (that also works offline!) is finally coming to town (look at the screenshots above!)

3. Nozbe for Android

New 2.1 version of Android is almost finished. With new faster engine, UI fixes and design improvements, it’s coming in the beginning of March. You’ll love the new Android app.

But there is more!

We’ve got other goodies in the pipeline, especially more great features that will be coming to Nozbe web like rich comments, smart contexts and project templates. These features are almost done but require more testing over the course of March…. but they are coming and they will help you get things done!

2012 will be big for our Nozbe users

We’ve grown, our team has grown and we just celebrated 5 years of running Nozbe… and we want to keep on celebrating this year with many great features, improved syncing between devices and bringing the ultimate productivity Nozbe experience to you and people you work with. Thanks for your support!

- Michael and the Team