Speak your organisation's language: rename and translate labels

by
Joost Schouten
Co-founder and Circle Lead at Nestr
Published on
June 26, 2026

Nestr's vocabulary bends to how your organisation speaks. You can rename any label, and translate it into the languages your team uses, so the words people see match your culture. New to labels? Start with The power of labels.

Renaming a label

Open Workspace settings → Labels, Fields & Tabs and select the label you want to change. The Name field holds its title. Type a new name and save, and the new term appears wherever that label is used across the workspace.

This works for the labels you create yourself and for Nestr's built-in labels. You can rename role, circle, and tension, as well as accountability and domain. If your organisation calls accountabilities "responsibilities" or domains "areas", rename them once and everyone sees your wording.

For a built-in label you have renamed, a Reset to default link sits next to the Name, so you can return to the original term at any time.

You can change the name of most things in Nestr to suit your organisation.

Translating a label into other languages

Nestr shows each person the interface in their own language, and your renamed terms can follow. Hover over the Name field and click the languages icon on the right to open the translations editor.

  1. The first row is your default language.
  2. Add a row for each language your team uses, and enter the term in that language.
  3. Where a plural form is offered, fill it in too.
  4. Save.

From then on, someone using Nestr in French sees your French term, someone in Dutch sees the Dutch one, and so on. The editor is titled after the term you are translating, for example "Translating: Accountability".

Configure Nestr to use the wording you use in your organisation across multiple languages..

Where your wording shows up

Renames and translations apply across the whole workspace, so the term stays consistent everywhere the label appears: in menus, on items, and in governance. Because accountabilities and domains are labels too, renaming them changes their titles throughout, including in your role and circle structures.