No Office

Michael and Magda record a joint episode while at Nozbe’s annual company retreat. They talk about how Michael spent just a few days vibe-coding a practical app that he had needed for years - despite not knowing how to code in Swift. He hired AI to do the heavy lifting, and to keep his workflow organized without abandoning his natural habits of managing projects, tasks, and comments, he connected his AI agent directly to Nozbe.

🎙️ Topics:

• Nozbe's annual company retreat in Gdynia
• The mechanics of remote team meetups: planning hotels, dinners, and city walks
• Murphy's Law of remote work: when things break down at home while you're away
• Vibe-coding an iOS presentation app (Prezbe) from scratch without knowing Swift
• Working with Claude and managing AI memory via markdown configuration files
• Integrating Nozbe and local MCP (Model Context Protocol) as an AI command center
• Asynchronous collaboration with a coding agent: tasks, comments, and automated review checklists
• The future of productivity, project management, and empowering small teams with AI

• (00:00) - 👋 - Intro: welcome from the annual company retreat in Gdynia, Poland

📝 Show notes

• Nozbe – project and task management
• Markdown Format 
• Free productivity consult
• Annual Nozbe Company Retreats

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Most law firm owners work over 50 hours a week and constantly worry about court deadlines. Team communication is often scattered across different channels like WhatsApp, email, and texts. In this episode, we show you how to regain control over your deadlines and bring peace of mind to your law firm's daily operations.

🎙️ Topics: 

• How lawyers work
• When do you start searching for a solution  
• What is the solution - one centralized system
• Data security
• How Nozbe can serve in a law firm
• Work optimization and automation with recurring tasks, AI, and templates

• (00:00) - Intro 🎧

📝 Show notes

• Nozbe for lawyers
• Free Nozbe Demo and productivity consult
• How Law Firms Can Benefit From Project Management Software

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Whether you’re a daily Nozbe user or a long-time supporter, see how our apps have evolved over nearly 20 years — created with passion and a clear goal: to make productivity simple and effective. Michael Sliwinski walks you through the latest features of the new version, demonstrates them in action, and shares why simplicity continues to be our guiding principle.

🎙️ Topics:

- Why simplicity is the right direction
- How to use project groups and sections for better organization
- Why Nozbe is like WhatsApp, but much better organized
- How to collaborate with people who don't have a Nozbe account
- The redesigned Nozbe interface and its customization options

• (00:00) - 🚀 Intro

📝 Show notes

- Compare Nozbe Classic and Nozbe
- Schedule a free, no-obligation consult
- How to get started with Nozbe - start using Nozbe in 5 minutes
- Don't use WhatsApp for company collaboration

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Whether you like to click around and explore apps on your own, or you prefer getting a ready-made, tailor-made system -  this episode is for you. Today, we’re breaking down the 3 paths to getting started with Nozbe that will instantly boost your team's productivity.

🎙️ Topics

• Implementation success factors
• Path 1: DIY Implementation.
• The Social Agreement Rule.
• Downsides & procrastination risk.
• Path 2: Nozbe Team Onboarding.
• Path 3: External Consultant (Expert).
• Which solution to choose? 

• (00:00) - Intro

📝 Episode Notes

• Sign up for a free initial Nozbe consultation 
• See how to get a free Nozbe implementation worth 400 USD
• Nozbe Experts 
• Stop using WhatsApp for company collaboration
• How to get started with Nozbe - Start with Nozbe in 5 minutes 

💡 Factors determining the type of new tool implementation in a company:

1. Scale of the organization
In larger companies, a phased implementation is often used (a pilot project followed by expansion to subsequent departments).

2. Complexity of the tool
Simple applications (e.g., Nozbe for communication or task management) can be implemented quickly because they don't require multi-stage training.

3. Impact on business processes
If a tool changes the way many people work, the implementation should be more controlled and preceded by a process analysis. When changes are minor, a faster rollout can be applied.

4. User readiness
The digital competence level of the team and the employees' openness to change.

5. Business risk
If downtime or errors could halt company operations, pilot and test implementations are used.

6. Integration with existing systems
The more connections to other tools, the more testing and implementation phases are required.

7. Budget and available resources

🛠️ Examples of implementation models:

- Big Bang: Everyone starts using the tool at the exact same time.
- Pilot: A selected team or department tests the solution first.
- Phased: Implementation takes place step-by-step across different areas of the company.

In fact, choosing the type of implementation is usually a compromise between the speed of deployment, costs, and the level of risk the company is willing to accept.

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Does your team constantly lose track of things, wastes precious time searching for information, or spends the whole day putting out fires instead of actually getting work done? In this episode, Michael is joined by productivity expert Augusto Pinaud to show you how GTD (Getting Things Done) principles - with certain modifications - can help teams reduce chaos, stay aligned, and make sure everyone finally knows what they should be working on. Discover how to build a transparent system that eliminates endless meetings and nonstop messaging!

🎙️ Topics:

• How GTD Evolved from Solo to Teams
• Capture: The Mind is a Crappy Storage Place
• Clarify: Defining What "Done" Really Means
• Organize: Keeping Team Systems Simple
• Accountability vs. Responsibility in Teams
• Engage: Pull vs. Push Delegation
• Review: The Power of "Mighty Fridays"

• (00:00) - 🎬 Intro

📝 Show notes

• Implement GTD in Nozbe
• Augusto Pinaud
• Fridays at Nozbe
• Nozbe - free consult

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Do you think Nozbe is just for work? Not at all! You can easily organize your entire life here - from work projects to home tasks, hobbies, and trips. In this episode, we’ll show you how to use spaces and projects to bring everything together in one place - with a nice structure and without stress.

🎙️ Topics:

• How spaces work in Nozbe
• How you can use a Free space in Nozbe
• How does a Premium Plan works
• Business Subscription - unlimited spaces
• Extra space to organize your personal life
• How you can use Nozbe spaces and various options to organize your work and personal life
• How Michael and Magda use their extra spaces in Nozbe
• Special  6+6 offer for extra space in Nozbe 24/03-7/04/2026
• Why you wanna organize your business and personal projects in one tool

• (00:00) - 🎧 Intro

📝 Show notes

• Multiple spaces in Nozbe
• Free Nozbe Demo and productivity consult
  
  

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Today, we’ll show you what the real journey looks like — from a user request to a finished feature — and why it’s almost never just a couple of clicks for a good developer.

🎙️ Topics:

• What we consider when thinking about new features
• Why we’re recording this episode in the first place
• The process of introducing new features to the Nozbe app
• Design Fights at Nozbe
• Development and coding
• Real life example: printing feature

• (00:00) - 🎧 Intro

📝 Show notes

• Nozbe Core Values: Passion, Simplicity, Freedom and Fairness
• How to Improve the Quality of Your Customer Service
• Nozbe AI webinar
• Free Nozbe Demo and productivity consult
  
  

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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Everyone's talking about AI, but don't know where to start in your own company? In this episode, we share the specific processes we've improved at Nozbe using AI - with practical solutions you can implement today and see results immediately!

🎙️ Topics:

1. Use ChatGPT or Perplexity instead of Google to get direct answers with source links instead of traditional search.
2. Use AI as a tutor / learning assistant: AI can generate questions, check answers, and provide immediate feedback to help you learn faster.
3. Analyze data without building formulas manually:  Feed Excel or CSV data into Cloud AI to quickly get insights, breakdowns, and percentage analyses.
4. Automate repetitive or tedious tasks: AI handles boring tasks so you can focus on creative work.
5. Translate and maintain writing style: Use AI to translate content while preserving tone and style, reducing editing time.
6. Create short video content (Reels / Shorts): AI helps identify key moments in long videos and generates multiple short versions for social media.
7. Generate voice-over audio: ElevenLabs can synthesize natural-sounding voice for tutorials or promo content, including different accents.
8. Create audio podcasts from text: Notebook LM can take text (articles, transcripts) and generate podcast-style audio discussions automatically.

📝 Show notes

- Sign up for our webinar
- ChatGPT – conversational AI for questions, learning, and brainstorming
- Perplexity AI (including Perplexity Pro)
- Cloud AI
- ElevenLabs
- Notebook LM (Google) – AI for generating content, podcasts, or summaries from text sources

Creators & Guests

• (00:00) - 🎬 Intro

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Can kindness really boost productivity? And what does true kindness look like day-to-day at work? Tune in — Graham Allcott, author of the award winning book "KIND: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work", has the answers.

Topics

• Graham Allcott, Think Productive, and his lates book: Kind.The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work.
• What is kindness and in what way it's different from being nice
• Kindness is about truth and grace
• Kindness is also limiting the damage 
• Business bastards
• 8 principles to guide a “kindful” approach at work
•  Listen deeply 
• Kindness is a practice
• People first, work second
• Be humble
• Treat people the way THEY want to be treated
• Slow down
• Kindness starts with you but it doesn't ends with you

Show notes

- Graham Allcott
- Think Productive
- The Productivity Ninja Book
- KIND: The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work
- Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple's Success

The Eight Principles of Kindfulness:

1. Kindness starts with you — personal awareness and treating yourself with kindness.
2. Set clear expectations — clarity about vision, values, roles and responsibilities.
3. Listen deeply — full presence, empathy, understanding others commit- ment beyond productivity.
4. People first, work second. Always. — treat colleagues as humans first, not just resources.
5. Be humble — lead with humility, give credit, take responsibility, avoid ego.
6. Treat people the way THEY want to be treated — empathize, respect individuality, adapt to people’s needs.
7. Slow down — avoid the “busy = productive” assumption; take time for real human connection and reflection.
8. It doesn’t end with you — kindness should ripple outward: build a kind culture, influence others, sustain kindness over time.

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• (00:00) - 🎬 Intro

Can you work intentionally while keeping your productivity healthy and pressure-free? How do you find the vision you want to pursue? And what are the simplest productivity rules worth following?  You’ll find the answers in this podcast episode.

🎙️ Topics:

• Productivity as a tool
• How to achieve intentionality 
• You pay with your life for everything that you do! (4000 weeks)
• How do you know what your goal is ➡️ Life vision — how to find it
• Why and how to adjust your productivity system to your personality, traits, strengths and weaknesses
• TOP 4 universal productivity rules that work for everyone! (see below)
•  What is weekly review all about

• (00:00) - 🎬 Intro

📝 Show notes

• How to Improve the Quality of Your Customer Service - A Trick
• Nozbe as CRM - a post on Nozbe Blog
• Automatically Create Tasks with Due Dates from Calendly Notifications – Trick
• Emailing tasks to Nozbe

💥 Key Takeaways from the Episode

In this episode, we show that Nozbe — although primarily a task, project, and team-collaboration app — can fully replace a lightweight CRM for small businesses. Using projects, tasks, comments, tags, and templates, you can recreate all essential CRM functions: client database, contact history, sales pipeline, customer support, reporting, automation, and team collaboration. This means your team doesn’t need multiple tools — everything happens in one place, saving time and eliminating communication chaos. Nozbe becomes the central hub for client work: from the first contact, through sending offers and managing projects, all the way to post-sale support.

🎯 Benefits of Integrating CRM and a Project Management App

Integrating a CRM with project management software saves time, automates tedious tasks, and allows you to focus on real business growth. But how does this work in practice?

1. Everything in One Place
2. Faster Project Execution
3. Increased Customer Satisfaction
4. Better Team Collaboration

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• No Office website: nooffice.fm
• Tweet us @nozbe
• Follow us on Instagram @nozbe

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