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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.

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My best articles or most viewed, researched and impotrant pieces of writing. In late 2023 I started the practice of writing 1-2 such articles per month and feature them on my home page. Later retroactively I’m planning to tag with this my articles from past years.

👨🏼‍💻 ✔️ ⭐️ How the 2-minute rule can drastically reduce your administrative tasks…

Wednesday, March 4, 2026 /2min/

In David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” book, the author, while explaining his “GTD” concept, establishes a 2-minute rule, saying that if something can be done in less than 2 minutes, do it now. Don’t even write it down, just do it. Seems obvious, right? Well, even though I’ve known about this rule for years, recently I re-discovered it and was amazed at how much it has improved my productivity and reduced the time I spend on administrative tasks to a minimum. If you also feel like you could use that kind of improvement, read on…

How the 2-minute rule can drastically reduce your administrative tasks…


🤖 ⭐️ Lego Pixar Luxo Jr lamp with LED lights

Friday, February 27, 2026 /lamp/

Last Christmas I didn’t know which kind of LEGO set to get myself and then when searching for a gift for my nephew in a toy store, I found this Lego set #21357 with 613 pieces and I got it for myself. Then I searched up an LED set from BrickBling and had a perfect Xmas gift 🎄🎁 - here’s how I built it and hooked it up to my home office automation:

Lego Pixar Luxo Jr lamp with LED lights


✔️ 👨🏼‍💻 ⭐️ How to boost your productivity using AI?

Tuesday, February 17, 2026 /ai/

Everyone’s talking about AI these days. Artificial Intelligence. It’s everywhere – on the news, in podcasts, at dinner parties. While the concept has been around since the Terminator movies which scared us into thinking machines would take over the world, it wasn’t until ChatGPT burst onto the scene a few years ago that AI became something we could actually touch, play with, and use in our daily lives. In this article I’ll be sharing my own experiences using AI and how at the end of the day, I believe it’s an amazing productivity booster.

How to boost your productivity using AI?


📺 ⭐️ Boost your productivity with Nozbe AI - Webinar’26

Tuesday, February 10, 2026 /nozbe-ai/

After quite some time without doing webinars, it was time to do celebrate one where I explained the how we approach to AI in Nozbe and witch AI features we’re launching in Nozbe this month! Enjoy!


🗓 ⭐️ 2025 review - a year of mixed feelings

Friday, January 30, 2026 /2025/

It’s the end of January of 2026 so it’s time for my 12th yearly review of the previous year. To me 2025 was pretty stable business-wise but very rocky personally. Luckily nothing really bad happened to me, but to people very close to me, which was (and still is) hard to deal with. The bright spot last year were many quite exciting trips I did with my family. As always, I do these reviews mostly for myself, because to me writing them gives me closure and writing is thinking. Anyway, here goes:

2025 review - a year of mixed feelings


✔️ 📲 ⭐️ Remove social media from your phone for a better year of 2026

Tuesday, January 13, 2026 /social/

What if I tell you that there is one thing you can do this year that will improve your productivity, help you regain clarity, boost your self-esteem, reduce your anxiety and improve your ability to focus? Yes, you can get better at 5 things by doing just one thing. And it’s not something you have to be doing regularly. You can make a decision once and just stick to it. January of 2026 is the best time to do it. I did it a few months ago. Now it’s your turn:

Remove social media from your phone for a better year of 2026


✔️ 👨🏼‍💻 ⭐️ CORE HOURS - how to change the world in 2 hours a day

Thursday, December 18, 2025 /core/

You’re a busy professional. You are a founder, a business owner, a manager or a team leader and you are great at your job. You’re doing so well in fact, that you feel like your workweek is totally slammed. This is becoming frustrating because apart from managing, delegating and leading, you also need time for focused work. Whenever you want to develop this new idea that’s been bugging you… there’s simply no time to sit down and work on it. I’ve been struggling with a similar problem as the CEO of Nozbe. However, as a productivity nut I’ve been digging through many time management books in an effort to find a solution for this… and I think I’ve got it. I call it CORE HOURS and if you also need help finding time to do your best creative work, here’s how I do it:

CORE HOURS - how to change the world in 2 hours a day


🕹️ 👨🏼‍💻 ⭐️ My favorite USB-C gadgets of 2025

Wednesday, November 26, 2025 /usbc25/

In one of my earlier blog posts I mentioned that now I’m striving to get USB-C all things, meaning whenever I get a new gadget it must be powered using just a standard USB-C cable. This way I don’t collect useless additional chargers and can always add juice to my devices. Practical and environmentally friendly. Here are my top picks for this year and great ideas for gifts for nerds like me - send this list to your partners, people.

My favorite USB-C gadgets of 2025


📖 👨🏼‍💻 ⭐️ 10 books that changed my life

Thursday, November 20, 2025 /10books/

In a world that rewards busyness over progress, these 10 books taught me how to go fast while slowing down and create more with less. From the micro improvements of Atomic Habits to the focus of Deep Work, from the clarity of Essentialism and The One Thing to the structure of Getting Things Done and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — these ideas reshaped how I think, work and live. Better yet, these books are helping me design my app - Nozbe - that thousands of smart business owners use to get their professional and private life organized in a simple way. Below you’ll find how each of these 10 books impacted me personally and why I come back to them every so often:

10 books that changed my life


📲 ⭐️ Air - first impressions of the thinnest iPhone ever…

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 /air/

Now that I’ve been living for a little more than a week with the latest iPhone Air as my main phone, how is it? Is it really THAT thin? Does the battery drain quickly? Does it bend or break? Is the (one) camera any good? And how does it compare to my iPhone 15 Pro or the super thin iPad Pro M4? Here goes:

Air - first impressions of the thinnest iPhone ever…


📱 👨🏼‍💻 ⭐️ How I use Stage Manager in iPadOS18 for maximum productivity and focus

Tuesday, September 9, 2025 /stage/

✔️ 🔗 ⭐️ How I vibe-coded a simple to-do list with free AI in a few hours…

Thursday, September 4, 2025 /list/

✈️ 😎 👨🏼‍💻 ⭐️ How I’m enjoying productive Motorhome (RV) holidays every year with my family

Tuesday, August 19, 2025 /rv/

💻 🎬 ⭐️ How I upgraded M4 Mac Mini to 2TB of storage for a fraction of Apple’s cost?

Thursday, June 19, 2025 /2tb/

🔗 🏠 ⭐️ Automating Home Office with NFC tags and Homebridge

Thursday, June 5, 2025 /nfc/

🖋 🔗 ⭐️ Journal 4 Shortcut - evening practice, morning gratitude and daily planning - upgraded!

Tuesday, May 13, 2025 /journal4/

🗓 ⭐️ 2024 review - downsizing and regrouping

Monday, March 31, 2025 /2024/

🏠 💻 ⭐️ Perfect Recording Studio in my Home Office 2025

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 /studio/

🕹️ ✈️ ⭐️ Is Peak Design Everyday Zip 15L an ideal small backpack for airplanes?

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 /zip/

🏠 ⭐️ Home Office 2025 upgraded with Mac Mini, Prompter and more!

Monday, March 10, 2025 /office25/

✅ 💼 ⭐️ How my immature decisions led me to celebrating 18 years of my productivity business?

Monday, February 3, 2025 /immature/

🤖 ⭐️ LEGO Ferrari Daytona SP3

Monday, January 20, 2025 /sp3/

💼 🤩 ✅ ⭐️ Mighty Fridays in Nozbe - for 8 years (2016) we’ve been working only 4 days a week!

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 /workshow/

🕹️ ✈️ ⭐️ What’s in my Backpack in 2024/25?

Tuesday, November 26, 2024 /backpack/

🙁 💼 ⭐️ I’ve stopped posting on Twitter/X indefinitely

Thursday, November 14, 2024 /twitter/

😎 🙁 ⭐️ Unlike you and me, billionaires are not free despite their fortunes

Monday, November 4, 2024 /freedom/

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

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 /money/

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

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 /iphone15ultra/

✔️ ⭐️ How I plan my week? Cal Newport’s Weekly Template my way

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 /week/

🍿 😎 ⭐️ My thoughts have been replaced by “Hamilton” lyrics…

Friday, August 23, 2024 /hamilton/

📱 ⭐️ 5G - 5 reasons for getting a cellular iPad

Thursday, July 18, 2024 /cellular/

📱 ⭐️ A happy month with 13” M4 iPad Pro - thinness changes the device!

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 /ipadm4/

🎥 🏝 🎬 ⭐️ Impromptu coffee meetings in a remote team? Two Michaels argue!

Monday, June 17, 2024 /coffee/

📱 ✔️ ⭐️ How can I be so productive on the iPad?

Thursday, May 30, 2024 /ipadp/

🍿 ⭐️ “I have spoken” and “this is the way” - The Mandalorian

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 /spoken/

🎥 🎬 ⭐️ 12 new shorts: health, donating blood, core values, lego and my several takes on meetings!

Thursday, May 16, 2024 /yt1/

📲 🕹️ ⭐️ Perfect iPhone 15 Pro case is… Peak Design? Spigen? Mous? Pitaka?…

Monday, May 6, 2024 /case/

🔗 📲 ⭐️ Clipboard Manager using Shortcuts for iOS - perfect for iPhone 15 Pro Action Button

Thursday, May 2, 2024 /clipboard/

🎥 🎬 💌 ⭐️ 3 meetings per week or less?… - how two Michaels argue about managing people

Thursday, April 18, 2024 /meetings/

🎥 ✈️ 🎬 ⭐️ Productivity videos from Taiwan

Monday, April 15, 2024 /taiwan/

🕹️ ⭐️ Drone is a way to get super footage - DJI Mini 3 Pro review

Friday, April 12, 2024 /drone/

🎥 🎬 ⭐️ Subscribe to my new “Michael Team” YouTube Channel for daily productivity tips and tricks - my first 10 videos!

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 /channel/

🏝 ⭐️ Forget 9-5 and embrace modern flexible workday for everyone, not just the bosses!

Monday, March 4, 2024 /workday/

😎 ✈️ 🕹️ ⭐️ My family car turns 7 today and there are 7 things I still find awesome about it

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 /q7/

✅ 💼 ✏️ ⭐️ Nozbe - app for SMART business owners and teams - turns 17!

Tuesday, February 6, 2024 /nozbe17/

🗓 ⭐️ 2023 review - just keep iterating!

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 /2023/

🕹️ ✈️ ⭐️ What’s in my backpack and tech pouch in 2024?

Monday, January 1, 2024 /backpack24/

💼 🎬 ⭐️ Jeff Bezos and Day 1 thinking and truth seeking

Thursday, December 21, 2023 /day1/

⌚️ 📲 🔗 ⭐️ Action button Siri Shortcut for your iPhone 15 Pro and Apple Watch Ultra

Tuesday, November 28, 2023 /action/

💻 ⭐️ History of my 10 laptops - from 2000 and Compaq, Fujitsu, Toshiba, ThinkPad through 2008 with Apple MacBooks until now!

Thursday, November 23, 2023 /laptop/

✅ ⭐️ Nozbe Core Values: Passion, Simplicity, Freedom and Fairness

Monday, November 13, 2023 /nozbe-values/

🖋 📱 🔗 ⭐️ Journaling Shortcut version 3 - simplified, improved and with Apple Notes support

Monday, October 16, 2023 /journal3/

📱 ⭐️ Why I must work on the iPad - the most versatile computer ever - M1 iPad Pro 13” review after 2 years

Thursday, September 14, 2023 /ipadv/

💼 ✅ ⭐️ How we work on features and deploy Nozbe app weekly… while eating dog food?

Monday, September 11, 2023 /dogfooding/

🖋 😎 🔗 ⭐️ Practice Gratitude every day to be happy, fulfilled and calm with this Siri Shortcut

Wednesday, August 30, 2023 /gratitude/

💼 ✅ ⭐️ Evernote - why I love(d) it, how it almost acquired Nozbe and what’s next for your “external brain”?

Tuesday, July 4, 2023 /evernote/

✅ ⭐️ Nozbe - a trusted productivity system for life

Wednesday, June 28, 2023 /forlife/

💼 ✅ ⭐️ Pay-less upgrade - how to make plan changes for your SaaS customers completely effortless

Monday, June 26, 2023 /payless/

💼 ✅ ⭐️ 5 principles for designing a pricing scheme for SaaS companies - how to charge per user with savings and fairness in mind

Monday, June 19, 2023 /pricing-how/

🕹️ ✈️ 🍎 ⭐️ AirTags on cars and people - how not to lose either of them!

Friday, June 16, 2023 /airtags/

💼 ✅ ⭐️ Why choose Nozbe? Who is Nozbe for? What really is Nozbe?

Monday, June 5, 2023 /nozbe-why/

🏠 📱 ⭐️ Home Office desk rearrangement - flipping monitor position, MacBook Air placement and iPad Pro setup

Thursday, May 4, 2023 /office23flip/

😎 ⭐️ More than a decade of Internet frienship - how I finally met Augusto Pinaud in person!

Tuesday, May 2, 2023 /augusto/

📲 ✔️ ⭐️ In 2023 my iPhone Mini has just ONE home screen

Wednesday, March 8, 2023 /iphonescreen23/

🗓 ⭐️ 2022 review - wind of change

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 /2022/

✅ 💼 ⭐️ 16 years of Nozbe

Wednesday, February 1, 2023 /nozbe16/

📱 🏠 💻 ⭐️ Why I need a Mac when I’m working mostly on my iPad?

Monday, January 16, 2023 /ipadmac/

✔️ 🔗 ⭐️ Ode to Markdown. Why I love ❤️ writing everything in plain text.

Thursday, April 28, 2022 /markdown/