Thanks for this, Michael.

Very informative and easy to follow.

It reminds me of two long-standing problems I raised. As yet, no one in NOzbe has replied to these.

In the demo you showed how easy it is to use a nickname and PIN to create an email address for a project, allowing you to easily email tasks and notes into Nozbe. Really useful and I love that feature!

BUT I can see that you did not demo the old Nozbe 1.0 feature of being able to email tasks and notes FROM Nozbe to an email acccount. When are you porting this into Nozbe 2.0?

The other problem I have is with your demo of delegation. You show how, once an action is delegated to Sara, it is impossible for you to click an action off as done. Only Sara can do that when logged into her own account. This, as you know, is new to Nozbe 2.0 and in Nozbe 1.0 it is possible for you to tick off Sara’s delegated action as done.

This is a problem for me and my team because we often do joint team reviews, where one person is nominated to be “driving” Nozbe for us on a projected screen and we are all working together to update our projects. When someone in the team wants an update that their delegated action is done, the “driver” cannot do it for the team, bacuase Nozbe 2.0 has replaced the “done” checkbox with the delegated person’s photo. This makes our team review sessions WAY LESS productive, with Nozbe working against us and getting in the way. Please, can you reassure us that you plan to return to the 1.0 waay of working, or at least give users an option to how they prefer Nozbe 2.0 to behave?

It is important to your loyal 1.0 users that, in upgrading, you do not remove something they have become accustomed to and use well to improve team productivity. I know you will listen and act for us!

Thanks, and keep up the good work, Michael.

Paul – in regards to delegation I couldn’t agree more. As the project manager, I should have the ability to mark off projects as complete regardless of who I have delegated them to. Right now, I have to send an e-mail to a team member reminding them to mark an action as complete…not efficient at all. Also, in certain project environments the PM needs to validate that work has been completed properly. In this case, I am the last person to review the work and need to mark it as complete.

yes valid point – im still not liking the fact that michael hasnt turned delegating to somebody who dosent currently have nozbe yet into a way to bring in potentially new customers – as it would be beneficial to give them a full fledged account for x number of days after they accept just to give them the experience. as i know once i really experienced it full flown ive paid a lot more attention to nozbe…and by leveraging ways to increase how much mental realestate nozbe takes up in other peoples minds is a very important strategic move i believe they can make to make nozbe both better and easier to use with other people

Thanks for the reply, Michael.

I do appreciate what you say and understand that it is possible to re-assign tasks to “anyone”, or the person currently logged in.

I’m afraid that our entire team are not keen to add this “noise” to our team reviews. You will appreciate that this workaround means a lot of extra clicking and selecting just to mark something as “done”. In Nozbe 1.0, all we have to do is a single mouse-click and it is complete.

We would all prefer the return of the much better user experience in Nozbe 1.0 – no one I have consulted (some 20 people) prefer the new way of doing this on Mozbe 2.0.

I really hope, then, that you do listen here, and give us back our preferred “Nozbe 1.0” way of completing delegated tasks, a simple checkbox available to all in the team.

This is causing misery in team review meetings for all of us.

Thanks, Michael.

Michael, I see you did not reply to my first point, on emailing notes and actions from Nozbe to an email address.

Do you have any feedback on that?

Also, do you have any plans to provide a more robust user feedback tool? I still fing this current “blog-style” tool really limiting. No one is able to search and subscribe to individual requests and bug reports – it’s really a needle in a haystack after a few days. Even your old bulletin board software was better for keeping track of things. Have you investigated Uservoice, Get Satisfaction, Kindling or something similar for this valuable feedback channel with your customers?

cheers – Paul

Michael – thanks for re-evaluating the delegation functionality. Having to edit the task and mark myself as the owner to mark it complete, as Paul has mentioned, does create a significant amount of noise.

Thanks!