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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📱 👨🏼💻 ⭐️ How I use Stage Manager in iPadOS18 for maximum productivity and focus
Now that iOS26, I mean: iPadOS26, is upon us with new windowing system, I’m gonna re-cap how I’ve been using “Stage Manager” on the iPad for the last year. From hating it to setting it up right has been a wild ride but I’ve come to a place of optimum productivity on my main computer - the M4 iPad Pro. I’ve decided to write up my thoughts and conclusions right now, before upgrading to the new operating system with a completely new way of managing windows on the iPad. Let’s see if these ideas serve me or anyone in the future.
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📝 On September 26 `25 I am…
…finishing up September and getting seriously ready for the last quarter of this year to make sure I reach my goals for this year!
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #82: Vacation Left You Miserable? See How to Fix It!
Our podcast is back! Your vacation is over, but instead of feeling refreshed and motivated, you feel down and drained? You might be experiencing post-vacation blues. See why this happens and how to deal with it. Magda and I discuss the best tips and tricks that will help you reclaim your productivity again!
✔️ 🔗 ⭐️ How I vibe-coded a simple to-do list with free AI in a few hours…
Being busy with my business and just making it better, I’m kind of late to the whole AI game, but over this past year finally I’ve started testing different AI models and tools to help me get more things done, quicker. Also, internally we’ve been testing using AI inside of Nozbe to help our customers get things done smarter. Today, I want to share my early attempts at vibe coding, meaning how I built a simple to-do list in plain JavaScript for my family and how you can use it as well, before you decide to upgrade to a fully blown to-do list like Nozbe. Here’s the story:
✈️ 😎 👨🏼💻 ⭐️ How I’m enjoying productive Motorhome (RV) holidays every year with my family
Back in 2019 we were tempted by our friends to rent a motorhome for a week and enjoy driving and camping with them in the beautiful country of Sweden. We loved it and after COVID, since 2022 we’ve been renting a motorhome every year for two weeks to visit Scandinavia. It’s become our family tradition. Here are my best tips and tricks when traveling with a family in a motorhome:
🎧 The Podcast 219 - Journaling or 5 minutes a day that will improve your life
This time the AI co-hosts are discussing my new Journaling shortcut, version 4 and the whole concept of journaling, why it should also matter to more people… potentially, should they dare to try it :-)
🕹️ USB-C all things! Trimmer? Lamp? Glasses?… or why companies should finally drop their own chargers!
For the last two years my most important daily devices have had USB-C ports: iPhone and iPad… and gradually I’ve been migrating from gadgets that require ports like Lightning or micro-USB… I’m now fast-charging the Watch using it’s dedicated USB-C cable (which I’m also using to charge my AirPods)… and as I’ve been enjoying this USB-C lifestyle, I started looking at other appliances that don’t have old-school dedicated chargers but are using USB-C instead! Here are my latest discoveries:
📝 On July 25 `25 I am…
…enjoying a two-week Motorhome/RV holidays with my family, recharging after a very busy first half of 2025!
✔️ How to teach kids organization from an early age
I don’t force my daughters to do weekly reviews… But I see them start to plan, take notes, and set reminders on their own. Here’s how we bring productivity into family life – no tyranny, just thoughtful structure…
🎙 🎬 No Office FM #78: Am I a tyrant father imposing productivity on my kids?
Weekly review… or no bedtime story… ?! I’m not that much of a blackmailer with my daughters — but listen to this episode to hear about the rules and good habits I’ve been trying to pass on to my kids from an early age to make their lives easier now and in the future.
🤩 ✅ 🎬 Delightful feature - converting a section or task to a project
I’ve been running Nozbe for the last 18 years and the value of simplicity has always been my northern star. That’s why whenever a Nozbe user finds one of these simplifying features delightful it always makes my day. Watch one of our users and experts!, Mike St Pierre discovering how easy it is to convert a section of a project into its own project in Nozbe with one easy click:
🎧 The Podcast 218 - Michael’s perfect home office and recording studio
AI co-hosts are discussing my Home Office 2025 setup and perfect recording studio with their very cool impressions of how a perfect place to work on Nozbe from home should look like. Enjoy!
✔️ Online Recruitment: What You Didn’t Know About Hiring Remotely
A few lessons from 18+ years of building a fully remote company at Nozbe — and why recruiting for a remote team is completely different from traditional hiring:
🕹️ 😎 📱 My good old iPad 3 is very useful in the kitchen for family Calendars and FaceTime!
Back in April of 2012 I started my #iPadOnly journey with a retina iPad 3. Turns out this 13-year old device can be still pretty useful. A few years back I put it on the wall of my home office but recently I moved it to the kitchen and it’s awesome there:
🏝 🎬 No Office FM #77: We Hire People We’ve Never Met - Remote Recruitment Explained
This week we share our online recruitment secrets! How do you hire for a fully remote team without making costly mistakes? What surprises people who switch from office life to remote work? And how can you trust someone you’ve never met in person? We share it all - check it out!
💻 🎬 ⭐️ How I upgraded M4 Mac Mini to 2TB of storage for a fraction of Apple’s cost?
When I bought M4 Mac Mini for my home office I configured it with 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 512GB of SSD storage, which cost me $300 extra over the base Mini (1G Net and 256GB SSD). I didn’t spend extra $600 for the upgrade to 2TB of storage, because I had a 4TB SSD lying around and I didn’t want to spend the ridiculous money Apple was asking. However, when I heard about a Malaysian company called iBoff which reverse-engineered a 2TB SSD module I was both curious and eager to try it out. So I did spend an extra $280 and pre-ordered a module for myself.
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