This week has been very exciting for me.
After many slowdowns, problems and stressful moments, I managed to significantly move all of the Nozbe-related projects forward.
It feels great. You’ll love it.
The Future of Nozbe looks fantastic
This week I’ve tested the first versions of new Nozbe UI interface and the initial version of the iPhone-native iNozbe. Wow… both are incredible!
New Nozbe UI simply flies…
We’re totally re-designing and re-engineering the Nozbe UI and it’s not like 2 or 3 times faster than the current interface… it’s like 10 times faster and it blows my mind. My chief developer just surprised me with how fast we could make Nozbe fly!
It’ll blow you away. Really.
iNozbe on my iPhone feels great
Although I’ve only played with the initial version and there is still a lot to do to make the UI right, we’re on the right track and it just makes me sad we couldn’t get it out sooner. But we’re getting there and we want to intimidate every other iPhone to-do app.
Sorry iNozbe has been taking us so much to prepare… but I’m sure it’ll be worthwhile to wait just a little longer!
When will you see the future, too?
We’re hoping to get the “beta” version of the new UI and the first screenshots of the new iNozbe in the first week of November.
If all goes well and Apple accepts us, we hope to have iNozbe launched officially before the end of November. We’ll launch the new UI around the same date.
Hope you’re as excited about the future as I am. I’m just thankful I can participate in building the future with you. Without your feedback this all wouldn’t be possible.
Thanks!
Comments:
OK. That sounds for me as if we get the iPhone App shortly after Christmas.
Is possible to have a “quality / tests” zone where we can preview and test (and give feedback)?
Ulrich – quite the cynic. Michael – you’ve obviously got a loyal base of followers.
We’re all anxiously awaiting new UI & iPhone app. Screenshots would soften the
blow of delays – so as soon as you can post, we’d greatly appreciate!
Looking forward to the new interface – I know its going to be great, and the native
iPhone app too! What a Christmas, two presents in one !!! Keep up the great work Michael.
All this news sounds great!. About the new UI, are you going to include new
functionally also? (or do you want to keep it secret as Apple? ;)).
I’m impatient.
Hey what about us Windows Mobile users?
Great Michael I trust in your job so I’m exciting too because I like already NozBe!
;)
Like the others, I’m looking forward to the revalations. But, what about ‘other’
[non-iPhone] mobile users?
And any chance of an auto-save on Notes? I keep hitting return [bad habit] and
losing the lot. Doh!
I’m deep into planning and brainstorming the UI together with the UI team that is helping me out both with the Nozbe and iNozbe project.
I promise we’ll do our best to meet the deadlines and deliver a great Nozbe :-)
Thanks Michael, for all of the posts today on the forum. Now get back to work and we promise to leave you alone ;-)
I really appreciate some long-standing issues being addressed in the forum. Thanks so much, Michael.
I was excited to hear that the forum will be monitored more by the Nozbe team. As someone who has moved wholesale to Nozbe (and GTD Inbox) for GTD support, it would be great if your dev team could now support the forum users consistenly with all of our “current version” issues.
I’m as excited as everyone else by the new version, but Nozbe has a job to do for us today and we need support with these issues now (not after the new version is launched).
So, I hope people will continue to make posts to the Nozbe forum and that we will hear back as promptly as we do when using the email service.
And LOADS of good wishes for you and your UI team on the final push to an even better Nozbe.
We have lots of faith in you, Michael.
I’ve put iNozbe on hold while trying out OmniFocus for my mac and iPhone and I’m hooked…everything syncs across my work and home computers and my iPhone. But I haven’t canceled Nozbe yet…can you give me a reason why I shouldn’t cancel? I was 110% Nozbe and told everyone I knew about the service until OmniFocus for the iPhone was released. How do you think Nozbe/iNozbe compares? I’m stuck on deciding between the two! Ahhhh!!!!! I really love both…but atm Omni is ahead of the game IMHO...
I feel your pain, Philip.
But I still have this gut-feeling that Nozbe is the tool for me and that some small gaps are about to be plugged in the new version (maybe even some new amazing insights about to be unleashed for ninja GTD with ease!)
I’ve invested a lot of personal time and effort to move my micro-management of projects onto Nozbe and still have great faith in it.
At the moment, I’m only running my web business using Nozbe (just 2 core staff plus a small extended virtul team).
What I’ve put on hold is migrating my entire programme team (around 50) onto Nozbe and the possibility of my entire directorate (around 90) or even my company (around 250, though I’m aware of the scalability cap of 100, so that would be a consideration!) I just can’t make sort of commitment now until I see the shape of new Nozbe and give it a good shake-down.
I also like the ethos of Michael and his team. I feel more of a personal touch, like part of a family of GTD fanatics, or something.
We’re all looking forward to the best ever Nozbe “Christmas gift”! :)
Oh, I did have a quick look at Omnifocus – afraid it would be an immediate no-no for me as it looks like it’s Mac only, is that right Philip? I need all of my trusted systems to be cross-platform as we have a mixed base of Windows, Mac and Linux.
The other thing that struck me was that the main tool is a desktop client and not a SAS web app? Maybe I missed some sort of synchronised web client? If I’m reading that right, I’d also have to rule it out. I’ve implemented a strategy for my business of migrating all my software needs to web-delivered SAS. (So far, I’m doing pretty well but there are some gaps). I need this strategy for a whole bunch of reasons but mainly for the mobility/ portability, cross-platform access and my preference to transfer risks around ICT assets to my providers.
HOWEVER, things I LOVED about the Omnifocus include:
- FOLDERS for organising projects – wow! – does Nozbe need this, or what!? Such an easy way to keep my l.o.o.o.o.n.g list of projects under control. This would give me as much joy as iTunes recent intro of folders for playlists. – similarly, NESTED CONTEXTS, the basic vid gave example of “Errands” with two related contexts for errands at specific stores – where you can see just the errands for individual stores by clicking on the nested context, or click on the parent, Errands, and see all – so simple – so powerful. – LOCKED-DOWN INBOX (it irks me when the Nozbe inbox needs to be continually moved to top of my project list) – AUTO-PROJECTS – dragging of actions into the projects list auto-creates a new project with that name – cool! – ACTION STYLE – toggle function for action lists to choose betweem sequential and parralel execution – AUTO-NEXT ACTION for actions dragged to top of an action list – “CLEAN-UP” BUTTON, so we can choose when we want completed items to be removed (rather than wait for a one-rule approach – “they get cleaned-up overnight” as used in Nozbe).
Hi Michel – How is it going? Any news of the beta and screenshots? Best – Paul
When can we see the future? The present is here: http://lifehacker.com/5078699/battle-of-the-iphone-task-managers
Please tell us: when do you now plan to launch the revised UI?
Please keep Windows Mobile phone users in mind, too. OTA sync combined with offline task management that’s available in the iPhone client is of interest to WM phone users, too.
Hi, I don’t know where to put this, so it ends up here. When I add actions to a project, I enter them chronologically, as far as I already know. But Nozbe sorts them in reverse order. Is there a way to automatically sort in them in order of entering?
Hey Michael! So excited I could hug myself! lol… niggles aside, I’m a Nozbe fan
for sure, and just can’t wait to beta-test with you – let me know as soon as you’re
ready for some mega-keen folks to get their hands on it and give you lots of
feedback (hopefully lots of raving positive stuff!)
Great news and good luck with the final steps to sharing with your hungry fans!
“Intimidate” the GTD tools out there? – wow! – sounds like something I want to
explore, enjoy, and recommend to colleagues and friends.
Bring it on!
best,
Paul