If there’s one thing Nozbe is great at, it’s customization. A project can be made inbox and labelled, too, and you can also invite people to the project (thus the collaborative features of the app), print it and create a RSS for it. Unlike the aforementioned Basecamp though, Nozbe is much more similar to desktop applications like OmniFocus and Things in its approach to personal productivity: you can create projects, dump actions in the Inbox for future review, assign contexts to actions and label them for quick retrieval. It’s very simple and straightforward, but for what it’s meant to do - it definitely get its job done. Just like 37signal’s Basecamp, the user interface design of isn’t exactly something you’d wish you could look at all day. Oh, and with team-management capabilities. I’ll just throw this out there: if you’re not an OmniFocus user and feel the need of having more than just tasks in your GTD application, Nozbe is the best you can have right now. I was intrigued by the whole “Do in the web, find it again on mobile apps” concept, and I was fascinated by the terrific amount of integration with 3rd party online services the developers advertised. A couple of weeks ago I signed up for a Nozbe account and downloaded the iPhone and iPad apps. That’s why when Cody and I reviewed Basecamp and Backpack we decided to talk about our experience, rather than giving away some pretentious advices to wanna-be entrepreneurs and the like. I can’t come up here and say “Hey, you should work this way - don’t organize tasks like that”. More on this tomorrow, though.ĭiscussing GTD is like talking about favorite foods: at an extent, it’s pointless. Colors, on the other hand, tend to be problematic… although they can be found at the Help Page as well.Talking about GTD apps and online tools is difficult, and you know why? Because my method of Getting Things Done will always be different from yours, so will the apps I use, so will the fact that I used to constantly switch between different softwares. The principles of label use are described at our Help Page. I can only imagine what other interesting uses there might be… If you have an idea I invite you to share it in the comment -) That’s fine… but how do I use all of this? Others use it like I do, to signal priority/importance of a project. Some users simply use them to replace the main areas… which in my case are: work, home, study and private. Private is typically – craft, and travel. Home related labels tend to be shopping, and improvements. These are actual goals, such as: affiliate, support, and other - all for work. ![]() ![]() Then, I have other interchangeable labels. ![]() All my projects are grouped initially into those areas. I, for instance, have some fixed and unchangeable labels such as work, home, study, and private. You can have more than one label attached to a project (so it can indeed be grouped by a goal + something else) You can filter by a label narrowing your list of projects down to only those with that given one. However, no one said that you can’t turn your goal into a label, a complex task into a project, and sub-tasks you had in mind - into actual tasks. Yet, a second use that not so many are familiar with is… sub-projects. I guess everyone can imagine the most basic use thereof… simply create some, add them to projects, and later on, filter by them. Labels and colors - use them to your benefit Delfina Czarniecka - №30 with Derek Sivers Labels
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