Wow, August has been our best month so far and September is getting even better as far as new Nozbe users – lots more people are getting things done every month over here and we want you to be even more productive.
To improve our own productivity, together with our customer support manager Delfina and our chief technical guy Tomek we’ve decided to introduce new feature to Nozbe every week. We call it:
Feature of the week
Apart from working on the big stuff (like Nozbe going offline among other milestones that I’ll mention in my next blog post) we’re introducing a small, minor but important feature every week.
Every Monday we vote for a feature from our long overdue feature list sent by you – our users and we decide which ones get implemented this week.
Two weeks ago – Unread messages
We started with a “Team” feature that we were not using very much but we wanted to use – Messages – if you have a Family account (or higher) you get a cool Message board to share thoughts with the rest of the team. We liked it but we were not using it because we never knew if someone wrote something there. So we added an unread messages and/or comments indicator like this:
Now we use this feature a lot more and switch from exchanging emails when brainstorming on an idea or implementing a new feature of the week :-)
One week ago – Colorful Projects
Last week we voted on porting an old feature present in old Nozbe but lacking in Nozbe 2.0 – adding colors to Projects. Many users missed it as colorful projects give them an easy visual access to projects – contexts differentiate by icons but projects… only by name. Not anymore – now you can add color your projects however you want it to make sure they stand out:
We believe these little things matter – Nozbe getting better every week, one step at a time
Little big things is the new mantra for us – we are working hard on big milestones for Nozbe and I’ll be pointing out these in next blog posts, but to make sure Nozbe gets just a little better every week, we thought “Feature of the Week” was a great idea and we’ll keep on doing it… every week from now.
What’s this week’s feature of the week? I’ll let you know on Monday once it’s implemented :-)
What would be your next feature of the week? What small thing you’d love we improved in Nozbe? Let us know in the comments!
Comments:
The ability to see a list of projects without labels.
When I have a label open and add a new project, it currently defaults to not having a label. It should default to having the label that I’m currently in.
Ability to sort/alphabetize Projects, Next Actions, etc. instead of having to manually drag and drop them to sort them.
Access to the Next Actions Filter (which is great!) on the iPhone app
The Ability to have next action filter on each project. Also the ability to search multiple contexts(context names) eg I frequently take print out of my errand and call context as I make calls from my car. but for this I have to take 2 print outs, errands and calls.
Ability to view all actions completed for a day. Maybe something like the calender feature, where you can see a week at a time with tasks broken down by day.
Wk 1. Search on iPhone and iPad.
Wk 2. Search for Completed Item.
Wk 3. Have completed items disappear and put on a Completed list out of the way (not at bottom of page for the day).
Love this weekly idea to make Nozbe even better!!!!
Hyper-links implemented
A native app for Android! PLEASE fast track this, if possible. I love the app for the iPhone, but myself and all my employees at work use Android phones, so this would be a big deal for our productivity. The iNozbe.com site is okay, but a native app could be much better.
Thanks, and keep up the great work!
Ability to drag and drop tasks in the calendar view i.e. Manually ordering tasks
have lists of actions that can be ‘stacked’ in order would be great – once the next action is marked completed, the following action automatically is marked ‘next’. Would then be easy to break down a complex task into smaller ones and work through them.
loving the product though.
Great ideas guys! We’ll be adding some of these in the weeks to come. Last weeks’ feature got caught up just a little but we’ll try to post it in the next couple of days.
A small thing but a constant annoyance…
When adding a date to an action the drop down calender has Monday as the start of the week (not Sunday). I expect this needs to be user selectable.
(I’d also like an Android app, but I don’t think this is the thread to ask for one)
great idea!
I need anroid app the most but that’s not exeactly FOW
BTW I’m currious how your gonna get Universal mobile app – that’s quite complicted so i cross my fingers for you
Ability to sort/alphabetize Projects, Next Actions, etc. instead of having to manually drag and drop them to sort them +1
When assigning a date to a task (i.e. Today) have the task automatically move to the top in the Next Actions list.
How about a feature of a week actually coming out each week like it says in the post? ;)
How about subsequent tasks:
When the current action is done, a subsequent action is created with the scheduled date set to the done date plus a specified time period.
We’re actually implementing each feature-set each week, I’ll post about last week’s feature later today or tomorrow.
Thanks for your great suggestions. We are listening and we’ve got great things cooking for you.
The universal mobile app will work and will be supported by Android, Blackberry and other smartphones as well (hopefully Windows Phone 7 series, too :-)
Hi there, I have been using the free version of Nozbe for a few months now and love it. I’m an analyst and have struggled w/ effective ways of managing my day for years (paper, notepad, Rally, etc., etc., etc) and hadn’t found anything truly effective until I tripped on this. I demo’d the tool for my boss and a colleague this morning and while they see a lot of useful tools, their first question was whether or not the subscription based service of 5 or 20 users has any kind of rollup reporting, i.e. if I’m management is there an easy way for me to effectively see what my group is working on in one fairly simple view? Apologies if this is right in front of our noses in an article somewhere
Thanks much
Nozbe fan
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Adding notes to a task on my iPad when I create a new task.