Getting Started with Nova

Every great product starts with a first step. Whether you’re a solo founder or leading a team of fifty engineers, Nova is designed to get out of your way and let you focus on what matters: shipping great work.

Setting Up Your Workspace

The first thing you’ll do after signing up is create your workspace. Think of it as your team’s home base — a single place where projects, tasks, and conversations live together.

Choose a name that reflects your team or organization. You can always change it later, but a clear name helps when you start inviting collaborators. Nova automatically sets up a few starter projects to help you explore the interface.

Inviting Your Team

Collaboration is at the heart of Nova. From your workspace settings, you can invite team members by email. They’ll receive a link that drops them directly into your workspace with the right permissions already configured.

We recommend starting with a small pilot group — three to five people who are comfortable trying new tools. Let them explore for a week before rolling out to the broader team. This gives you time to configure workflows and establish conventions.

Pro tip: Use Nova’s role system to set appropriate access levels. Not everyone needs admin access, and limiting it reduces the chance of accidental configuration changes.

Creating Your First Project

Projects in Nova are flexible containers. They can represent a product, a sprint, a client engagement, or any other scope that makes sense for your team.

When creating a project, you’ll choose from several views:

• Board view for Kanban-style workflows with drag-and-drop cards
• List view for a structured, spreadsheet-like layout
• Timeline view for projects with dependencies and deadlines
• Calendar view for date-driven work like content schedules

Each project can switch between views at any time. Your data doesn’t change — only the way you see it.

Establishing Your Workflow

Nova ships with sensible defaults, but the real power comes from customization. Define your own task statuses, create custom fields, and set up automation rules that eliminate repetitive work.

For example, you might create a rule that automatically assigns a reviewer when a task moves to “Ready for Review,” or one that sends a Slack notification when a high-priority task is overdue.

“The best tool is the one that adapts to your process, not the other way around. Nova understood this from day one.”

Integrating Your Tools

Nova connects with the tools your team already uses. Set up integrations with Slack for notifications, GitHub for code tracking, Figma for design handoffs, and dozens more.

The integration setup takes about two minutes per tool. Once connected, Nova pulls in relevant context automatically — no manual copy-pasting between apps.

What’s Next

Once you’ve completed the initial setup, explore Nova’s analytics dashboard. It provides real-time insights into team velocity, bottleneck detection, and workload distribution. These metrics become more valuable over time as Nova learns your team’s patterns.

The key to getting value from any project management tool is consistency. Use it for everything, even small tasks, and the compound benefits will become clear within a few weeks. Start small, iterate often, and let Nova handle the coordination so you can focus on the craft.