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Hello, I’m Michael Sliwinski, founder of Nozbe - to-do app for business owners and their teams. I write essays, books, work on projects and I podcast for you using #iPadOnly in #NoOffice as I believe that work is not a place you go to, it’s a thing you do.

Michael Sliwinski

I’ve been helping small business owners and their teams maintain a work-life balance since 2007. I work from home, I don’t email my team, we have few meetings and I don’t work on Fridays!
My projects: ✅Nozbe to-do app and 📖#NoOffice book
Side projects: 🖋Journal, 🎲Dice, ▶️YouTube watcher and 🇺🇦FCKPTN

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Latest articles and posts:

💌 Why Task-Based Communication rocks? 🎸✅

Thursday, October 24, 2024 /news-tasks/

…or simply follow my 5 tips on how to delegate work better & discover yourself why at Nozbe we don’t use emails internally but simply… create tasks:

Why Task-Based Communication rocks? 🎸✅


🎥 Team Productivity Podcast re-started with NotebookLM!

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 /notebooklm/

I’ve officially joined the AI craze and finally started testing many AI tools consistently. One of them is NotebookLM which lets you create “notebooks” where you feed it with documents, sources, data and it summarizes things for you or answers your questions… or creates a podcast! Now, that last bit is really interesting and I’m using it now to publish a podcast based off of my writing:

Team Productivity Podcast re-started with NotebookLM!


🎙 🎬 No Office FM #51: Why me and Magda are crazy about Task-Based Communication?

Monday, October 21, 2024 /noofficefm-51/

Another podcast episode recorded with my right-hand-woman Magda and a fellow Nozbe team member. We dive deeper into task based communication with all our best tips and tricks to help them work out in your team.


🔗 🍎 Apple Shortcuts and problems with IFs and blanks

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 /blanks/

One of the reasons I can be so productive being #iPadOnly is the fact that I use Siri Shortcuts a lot. I have them for Action button, Clipboard management, Notes, Journaling and much more… The problem is that both the Shortcuts app is very poorly written by Apple (crashes, freezes, scrolling issues) and with many iOS updates Apple “upgrades” the way Shortcuts work and suddenly something that used to work, just stops working. Recently this happened to me with my Tinify Shortcut. In iOS18 there was even a bigger change…

Apple Shortcuts and problems with IFs and blanks


⌨️ 🔗 Use Tinify (TinyJPG and TinyPNG) to compress your images

Tuesday, October 15, 2024 /tinify/

When I was doing the migration from my old blog at sliwinski.com to this one, I wanted to make sure this one loads fast also on mobile phones. So I painstakingly compressed all of the images using a free(ish) service called Tinify. I wanted to both have cookie and eat it, so have lower file sizes AND great quality. I automated it using Shortcuts and each image was reduced by between 70%-30% of the original one without visible loss of quality. Here’s how I did it (and no, they are not a sponsor, I just recommend them because I like them).

Use Tinify (TinyJPG and TinyPNG) to compress your images


⌚️ Apple Watch face for the Summer and weekends

Monday, October 14, 2024 /summerface/

As I keep using the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and keep loving it I keep tweaking the watch faces. I’ve already blogged about World Clock Watch Face and now it’s time for my Summer/weekend watch face, again based on the Ultra Modular.

Apple Watch face for the Summer and weekends


💌 ✔️ 7 reasons why good habits are important

Friday, October 11, 2024 /news-habits/

Creating and maintaining good habits helps you simplify decision-making, conserve mental energy and leads to long-term success. Here are 7️⃣ reasons why it’s good for you:

7 reasons why good habits are important


🎙 📱 🎬 No Office FM #50: Small Habits - Big Wins

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 /noofficefm-50/

Last week was a special podcast episode as I was recording in the same room with Magda, as we met on Nozbe Reunion. We talk about habits and it’s a very juicy episode! Listen up:


💌 Why batching & grouping tasks is good for your productivity?

Friday, September 27, 2024 /news-tags/

✅ Apart from the usual Nozbe structure of projects, tasks and comments - there is a feature that will give you superpowers to group your tasks better for execution using “contexts” or “tags” like this:

Why batching & grouping tasks is good for your productivity?


📱 🔗 How to download YouTube videos using YT-DLP and a-Shell on the iPad

Thursday, September 26, 2024 /ytd/

A few years back I wrote a tutorial how to download videos to the iPad using youtube-dl and a-Shell app but it stopped working because of a court order. Luckily there’s a fork of this called YT-DLP which you can use again. Here’s how it works:

How to download YouTube videos using YT-DLP and a-Shell on the iPad


✅ 🔗 New To Do - official Nozbe Siri Shortcut for iOS and Mac

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 /newtodo/

I’ve created a version 2.0 of Nozbe Shortcut to add tasks recently and it’s much more powerful. Here’s what it can do:

New To Do - official Nozbe Siri Shortcut for iOS and Mac


📲 ⌚️ ⭐️ Year later - iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra 2

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 /iphone15ultra/

Last Friday people were picking up their new iPhones and Watches and I wasn’t one of them (yet?) so I decided to write my thoughts on my (still) current iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra 2 which I got last year. How have they served me? What’s great? Good? Bad? Ugly?

Year later - iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra 2


🎙 🎬 No Office FM #49: Contexts or Tags - How to Work Smarter By Batching Tasks

Monday, September 23, 2024 /noofficefm-49/

This episode is about taking your productivity to a whole new level by learning how to use contexts, or tags as they are named in Nozbe - learn how to batch tasks, follow status and much more!


💌 How to use emails productively?… and have less of it?

Thursday, September 12, 2024 /news-no48/

☀️ Summer holidays are gone and many of us just got back after a longer holiday… only to find a pile of emails 📧 so overwhelming! Is there a way out of it? Here’s how we do it at Nozbe:

How to use emails productively?… and have less of it?


📝 On September 11 `24 I am…

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 /now240911/

…back in my home office after summer holidays and getting ready for our annual Nozbe reunion

On September 11 `24 I am…



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