.. Founder of Nozbe.com - a time and project management web application
.. Editor of Productive! Magazine - a global PDF publication on productivity
.. and a blogger as well as a producer of a weekly 2-minute Productive! show.
Michael Sliwinski on #iPadOnly and #NoOffice: "Work is not a place to go, it's a thing you do."
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
This was a busy month for me. My company is going through a transition, I just hired a bunch of key people, put my team through V2MOM creation process, organized our team's yearly get-together in Barcelona and launched a cool Nozbe summer promo and refined Nozbe tutorial. We also set up ground work for Nozbe 2.0 to be launched later this Fall. Everything was a team effort but required a lot of focus from me. So I started skipping on email...
...when I needed to focus on what's best for my company. Started creating V2MOMs, strategy, tactics, talking to my team, analyzing our marketing activities, revenue, everything... and testing our product... and wanted to make sure we'd do a great job for our customers this Fall. This all required long stretches of focus so at the end of the day I was so tired that I just started not opening the email app at all. Every day as I focused on my work I continued postponing checking email... and limited to communicating with my team only, through Nozbe tasks and chat (Facetime, Skype)...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
I've recently switched my platform from Windows to Mac and when re-evaluating my email setup I found out I was using the "good old POP3" when there is IMAP which keeps my email synchronized between my Mac, iPhone and the Web. I also found out I only need 3 folders to get it to zero, just have a look for yourself:
Question: How is your email setup? Are you also using IMAP? How many email folders do you have?
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
It's important to zero-out both your Inbox as well as your Email. How to process Email to zero? Watch me do this:
Question: Do you manage to process email to zero? Do you have zillions of email folders? How do you manage the overwhelming amount of email messages you receive?
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Email is King. But don't let the king rule you. Don't depend on your email. Don't be re-active but pro-active and decide how to deal with email - it's the first part of the series:
Question: How do you get a life outside of email? Does Email rule you or do you rule email?
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Hello, I’m Michael, a productivity guy who is running Nozbe, podcasting weekly on „The Podcast”, blogging here and on Nozbe blog, writing books and articles for various magazines and speaking at conferences. Feel free to say hi or check out what I’m doing now.