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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:

🎙 🎬 No Office FM #52: Time Is Money. How to Make Money by Being Well Organized?

Tuesday, November 12, 2024 /noofficefm-52/

Let’s discuss my latest featured article: Time is Money and explain why the math checks out and how Nozbe is making you money if you’re using it well!


🙁 🎬 Why USA re-elected a convicted felon, liar, racist and simply the worst of men?

Monday, November 11, 2024 /trump/

Today is Monday, November 11, it’s Independence Day in my home country of Poland yet I’m still thinking about the US elections last week and I’m trying to process what happened. Billionaires called it and despite smart people warning against it, America knew how awful Trump was, yet re-elected him. I think Jon Stewart said it best:


😎 New York Times warns against Trump while Harrison Ford makes a stand for Kamala Harris and democracy

Tuesday, November 5, 2024 /fcktrump/

Yesterday I wrote about billionaires and their newspapers like Washington Post or LA Times not having the freedom (or guts) to endorse Kamala Harris. Shame on them. Today New York Times posted a great paragraph showing why we have to get rid of Trump and aspiring autocrats like him once and for all:

New York Times warns against Trump while Harrison Ford makes a stand for Kamala Harris and democracy


💌 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!


✔️ ✅ ✏️ ⭐️ Time is Money. Or how Nozbe is basically printing cash!

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 /money/

Last week, I had an interesting conversation with a fellow entrepreneur whose app is focused on marketing services. We talked about pricing, value and ultimately why people buy (or not) subscriptions to our apps. He pointed out that benefits of using Nozbe are not monetary unlike what he’s offering (bringing businesses leads that convert to revenue). After our conversation I was feeling confused. What about the old saying that time is money? Exactly!

Time is Money. Or how Nozbe is basically printing cash!


🎙 🎬 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



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Hi, I’m Michael Sliwinski, the host of this site. Are you a fellow small business owner? Make sure to give Nozbe a try - my app will help you and your team get your professional and private life organized in a simple way. It’s FREE and you’ll get a bonus of $15 for Premium version by signing up below:

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