After months of waiting (and being teased with a partially-finished beta a few months ago), Nozbe 2.0 has finally been released.
I’ve intentionally waited a few days to talk about it, because I wasn’t sure how I felt. My initial reaction was pretty disappointed. While it looked much better than previous versions, it had some substantial problems. Here are the comments I left for their developer:
1 — No filtering on Next Actions. Why?
2 — Next actions don’t show which project they’re from until you click on each one. MUCH harder to scan through them.
3 — The list of projects still take up WAY too much space in the sidebar. Granted, I have a lot of projects (53), but it’s pretty bad. On Nozbe Classic, the bottom of my last project in the list is 1490 pixels down the page. In Nozbe 2.0, the last project is 2053 pixels down the page — a 500+ pixel increase!
I was feeling kind of bad for them at this point. While they were very legit concerns, the blog comments were full of things like that. We were all appreciative to the team for getting it launched, but it appeared it was in big trouble.
In fact, I even started looking around again for an alternative to Nozbe. The two that came the closest were Vitalist and Toodledo, but they couldn’t measure up to Nozbe even with some of the broken features. Nirvana HQ is looking pretty slick, but it’s a closed beta and I haven’t been able to get access to it yet.
However, the very next day Nozbe posted an update that addressed every concern. Point by point, they answered each question and explained how they’d fix it (or why they wouldn’t/couldn’t). They even fixed item #2 from my list above right away! There are still some issues, but they’re getting resolved quickly. On top of that, the new features (like “notes on tasks”) are very useful.
As it stands now, I consider Nozbe 2.0 the best GTD app out there. I’ve long felt that Nozbe has been the best, and with the recent bug fixes to 2.0 they’ve kept the crown. Hopefully Michael and his team can knock out some of the other small bugs and feature requests in the next week or two and they’ll have a pretty awesome product.
Hi,
I have been using Nozbe for a couple of monts and is happy with the new version. I was looking at Toodledo and found that I liked the goal approach it has. But if the rest of the app does not match Nozbe 2.0, like you say there is no reason to change.
/daniel
Since Nirvana is now out of beta, is Nozebe 2.0 still on top of your list?
And, does your list include the non-web based progams like OmniFocus and Things?
Nirvana still doesn’t have sharing included, so it’s not really a possibility for me.
I’ve heard great things about OmniFocus and Things, but I personally want a web-based solution. At the very least, there need to be Windows AND Mac versions, and they need to sync and share. I don’t think either of those cover that.
Helpful — thanks!
Points taken on sharing. But since I’m all Mac and just me, sharing becomes less of an issue.
Time to make “decide on GTD app” the first item!
Appreciated!
%%robert
Hmm, Nirvana still shows up as beta for me. What do you mean by sharing? Group collaboration, or?
Maybe since it’s the first time I visied, i.e. nothing in browser cache….
Sharing = group collaboration, giving others access. Not a concern for me, but that’s not to imply that it isn’t a major concern for many!!!
huh, flushed my dns cache and still nothing. Maybe they’re just segregating us Windows folk 😉