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Nozbe Review

Written by:  • Edited by: Michele McDonough
Published Dec 24, 2009
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Are you looking for a task management program that will also manage notes? Do you enjoy David Allen's Getting Things Done system? If so, then Nozbe may fulfill your need - find out more about this task management and note management project in this article.

What is Nozbe?

Nozbe is task management and note management software. This program allows users to track their tasks in a style inspired by David Allen's book, Getting Things Done. GTD strategies involve looking at things to be completed as projects, and at things to do as "action items." The first step in GTD is emptying your mind of everything that's in there from needing cat food to writing an article to sending a gift to your Aunt Mavis. Next, you group things into projects - have an article to write? That requires several steps. So does mailing the gift to your Aunt Mavis. Finally, you assign the next action needed to complete the project and schedule it. Nozbe streamlines these steps into one program.

Installation and Setup
Rating Excellent

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Nozbe is online, on demand software. Setting up Nozbe is as simple as having an internet connection and a few minutes to spare. Once you've set up your account, you're good to go. The program allows you to tinker around with some "dummy" project and task entries so you can get the feel of the program. As far as installation and setup go, this is about as easy as it gets.

Ease of Use
Rating Excellent

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Nozbe also is incredibly easy to use. When working with the trial, I had the program up and running within minutes. Learning to enter notes, projects, and tasks is relatively simple, and if you need a little boost getting started, a tutorial for the program is available to users. In fact, when you begin using the program, there already are notes for you so you know where to put what information.

Features
Rating Below Average

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Here's the only place where I will give Nozbe a lower mark. Because it is limited in scope, Nozbe is also a limited program. For example, there is no way to track email using Nozbe like there is in Microsoft's Outlook. Because of this, tasks you want to link to emails will need to be hand-entered. This isn't a big deal, but it is an extra step if you are super-efficiency oriented. Perhaps, though you use Gmail or another program to manage your email tasks. Setting this aside, here's a list of the features that you will find in Nozbe:

  • Use "Stars" to denote your next action
  • Organize next actions into different contexts - home, work, phone, internet, etc.
  • Attach your files to next actions, projects, and notes
  • Keep track of appointments and events (you can sync these with Google)
  • Use EverNote to import notes to Nozbe
  • You can print out different sizes of paper to carry with you on the go
  • Share and delegate tasks to others

Price to Value
Rating Average

Nozbe offers a pricing structure akin to other on-demand software programs. For a trial account, it is free for one user, up to five projects, five contexts, and you are given 1MB of file storage. The other two single-user account options (Solo, Plus) run $3.50 a month and $7.00 a month respectively. There are also multi-user account options available ranging in price from $12/month to $75/month. Naturally, as the price increases, the amount of storage, functionality, and user capacity increases.

Is Nozbe for You?

Nozbe is for you and your team if you require task management and note management software and you like the style of on-demand software. It is for you if you only need light project management functions. Finally, you may like Nozbe if you are self-employed or freelancing and you follow David Allen's methodology.

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sam Jun 19, 2011 5:10 PM
Something New...
I've been looking for a new task manager program and found that Dooster.net is much more intuitive and user-friendly than the others. You should give it a try!
Tony Mobily Nov 18, 2010 12:43 AM
Maybe try Apollo?
Hi,

I don't suppose you'd like to try out Apollo? http://www.apollohq.com
Apollo does both project and contact management, along with a great calendar, cases&deals, timers.

It's different to the others as it has a very zippy interface.

Let us know what you think!

Merc.
Neil Aug 18, 2010 9:25 AM
Nozbe pricing
Nozbe's current pricing (as at Aug 2010) is significantly different to the prices indicated here. I liked my free trial, but five projects is too limited to get a sense of Nozbe's usefulness and value.

A Personal account is now EUR 9.95 per month or 89.95 if you pay in advance for a year. That seems like a lot of money for a GTD app subscription. To be fair though, there's a 60 day money-back guarantee.

If it was only USD 3.50 like you mentioned in your article, I'd go for it. But at the current prices, I'll keep looking for my perfect GTD app.
Michael Dec 27, 2009 3:20 PM
Thanks!
Thanks for this thorough review! Always glad to read positive comments about software I created :-)

One point though - Nozbe has a very cool way of sending emails and converting them to tasks - we described it on our blog recently - you can email a task to Nozbe and the body of the email becomes "comment" of this task - this way you have all the relevant information right where you need it.

Thanks again and Happy New Year!
 
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