{"id":368,"date":"2007-02-19T12:12:10","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leapfrog.nl\/archives\/2007\/02\/19\/super-short-nozbe-review\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T19:34:19","slug":"super-short-nozbe-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2007\/02\/19\/super-short-nozbe-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Super short Nozbe review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nozbe<\/a> is a web app that allows you to organise your to-do’s Getting Things Done<\/a> style. This morning I spent a little while giving it a spin. I decided to sit down and enter a bunch of actions I have in my Hipster PDA<\/a> (a Moleskine Memo Pockets<\/a> and a bunch of blanc index cards) into Nozbe. First impressions:<\/p>\n

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  1. Nozbe is a cool concept. I have really been waiting for a multidimensional productivity web app. They got this part right! (Projects and contexts are included.)<\/li>\n
  2. I like the book excerpts that explain the different GTD concepts such as projects, contexts and actions.<\/li>\n
  3. I’d really only consider using Nozbe if it’d include a mobile variant (otherwise my actions are only accessible when I’m online behind a computer).<\/li>\n
  4. Nozbe forces you to enter each action in a project up front. This is, I think, a misreading of Allen’s ‘gospel’ and increases the cognitive load when quickly entering an action. I’d have actions be forcibly linked to a context but give the user the option to add it to a project. (I worked around this by creating a ‘No Project’ project and adding actions to it before reorganising. <\/li>\n
  5. Contexts are fixed, which is a shame. Please, please, please let me create my own contexts, tagging-style. So I can have actions linked to multiple contexts (which again reduces cognitive load).<\/li>\n
  6. Don’t show the duration menu by default when entering an action, keep it clean. I’ll add durations when I want to, but don’t force me to.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Productivity apps are hard to get right because everyone has such a personal workflow. A good app takes that into account and offers many ways to do the same things. So again, Nozbe guys: the app is a good start, congratulations on the good effort! However it could benefit from some more user-centred thinking and design. Try to get a feel for the context of your users and tweak the interface accordingly! <\/p>\n

    Update:<\/strong> For those who hadn’t noticed, I found this tool via the excellent Lifehacker blog<\/a>. Nozbe have their own spartan blog<\/a> too.<\/ins><\/p>\n

    Another update:<\/strong> The excellent GTD blog Black Belt Productivity does an in depth review<\/a> and comes up with some of the same points as I did plus a whole bunch more.<\/ins><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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