Just in time for the end of August we are happy to bring you the newest issue of your favorite productivity magazine – it’s the first time we have a woman on the cover of the magazine and it’s a regular contributor to our magazine – the great productivity person of Laura Stack. The issue #9 will be out tomorrow so get ready by watching this short 10 minute video with Laura:
And here’s the cover of the magazine you’ll see tomorrow:
We’re finally bringing you more past issues of the Productive! Magazine to the iPad and we’re starting with issue #1 with David Allen. This was our first issue and our best issue ever! Almost 100 pages of content, fantastic interview with David Allen – the “father of Getting Things Done” (GTD).
Issue #1 as PDF (and digitally on Issuu.com) has been read almost 200,000 times and is to date our most requested issue of the magazine.
New iPad app – please re-download it.
We recently moved our Productive! iPad app to our Apple developer account, so please get the new app to read the issue #1 – with the new app (which is free as always) you will be able to view all the available past issues of the magazine that we prepared up till now as well as new issues such as issue #9 with Laura Stack (coming next week) and past issue #2 with Guy Kawasaki coming next month.
Click to download our new iPad app and get Productive! Magazine #1 on your iPad!
In the magazine we’ve included a 1-minute snippet from my David Allen interview I posted earlier:
Click to get our new iPad app with Magazine #1
Our iPad app is proudly sponsored by good folks from Macoscope (using their excellent iPublisher platform) – they are great supporters of our magazine and also developers of our Nozbe iPad and iPhone apps.
Our free Productive! Magazine iPad app is increasingly popular now and we’re trying to port all of our back-issues of the magazine to the iPad. We decided to start with #1 with David Allen, the “father” of GTD (Getting Things Done methodology) and I had a pleasure of talking to David about what has happened since 2008 when we first launched our first issue of the Productive! Magazine.
Productive! Magazine iPad app will be updated to accommodate this new issue so we’re waiting for Apple approval… should happen sometime next week – once there, we’ll publish issue #1 there. Meanwhile enjoy my ~5min. interview with David:
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As you recall, last week we shipped the long-awaited Productve! Magazine issue #8 on the PDF with an exclusive interview with my personal software/business guru – Jason Fried. A guy who inspired me to go on my own and launch Nozbe back in 2007, bootstrap it and develop it to a business that helps thousands upon thousands of busy professionals around the world get things done.
Get the iPad version of the Productive! Magazine
The PDF was a blast with thousands of downloads in the first week, but if you’ve been waiting for the iPad version of the magazine, check out your iPad as you might have received a “push” notification about this new issue:
If you don’t have our iPad app just yet, get it from the Appstore today.
More great content in issue #8
But there is more… we also have some fantastic articles by best productivity writers like Leo Babauta, Michael Hyatt, Pat Brans, Chris Edgar, Graham Allcott, Mike Vardy and yours truly – make sure to check it out:
With special video material
The interview with Jason starts with a short 1-minute video snippet (viewable offline) from my real-life interview with him we did when I visited his offices in Chicago, IL. Moreover 3 episodes of Productive! Show are also embedded with this issue (connection required).
…and there is one more thing – issue #1 coming to the iPad next month!
As you know we’ve ported issues #5 onwards to the iPad and now we’re working on bringing you the past issues to the iPad, too. The issue #1 with David Allen (the guy who actually invented GTD – Getting Things Done) is coming to the iPad near you next month, also with exclusive video content (just recorded a cool interview with David!) so stay tuned.
As always, I’d appreciate your support and recommending our magazine to everyone you know – it’s a free publication (both as a PDF and the iPad app) so make sure to spread the word!
Good luck enjoying Productive! Magazine on the iPad!
P.S. Remember you can access all of our past issues on the Productive! Magazine archive page. Past issues include Guy Kawasaki, Michael Bungay Stanier, Leo Babauta, David Allen, Stever Robbins, Miguel Guia and others…
I’m happy to announce we’ve got the newest Productive! Magazine ready for you – number #8 with Jason Fried:
Click here to download the magazine in PDF (~3MB)
Jason Fried is my “web-based software/business” guru and I was lucky enough to visit him in Chicago and interview him for the magazine…
Some of Jason’s quotes from the interview:
“If you want to make something great you have to cut it in half. You’ve got to keep it short.”
“I’m more like an editor. I set someone on the right track, they write something, they design something, I look at it and tweak it, adjust it to make sure it is good.”
“You can love people and you can love business. And if you are in love with two things it is hard to sort of figure out what gets what…”
“When people become enamored with the system itself (like GTD) they actually create more work for themselves…”
… and there’s more:
We’ve got fantastic articles by regular contributors like Leo Babauta, Chris Edgar, Pat Brans, Graham Allcott, Mike Vardy and yours truly – here’s complete Table of Contents:
If you’ve enjoyed this issue, make sure to check out our past issues (click here for complete archive) and forward this email to your friends so that they can enjoy productivity tips and tricks as well.
P.S. We’ve got a new Productive! Magazine Facebook Page – make sure to like us 
Hope you enjoyed the video interview with Jason Fried. Now that the magazine #8 is compiled and in the editing process, let me share my intro to it:
Short and sweet
Compiling a new issue of each magazine is a treat for me. I get to interview fantastic people and work with amazing contributors and it’s all working smoothly which results in a fantastic content I want to read so many times over. And I learn. Constantly.
Meet Jason Fried
Dreams keep coming true and I’m honored I can share them with you. One of these was to visit the offices of 37signals – a Chicago-based software company which inspired me to start my web application Nozbe. I travelled to Chicago and their CEO, Jason Fried, a person I highly respect and look up to agreed for an interview. Suffice to say it was an incredible experience to meet Jason in person. Hope you can feel it when reading my interview with him.
The rest of the magazine is a cool mixture of timeless advice from many authors and contributors you already know like Leo Babauta, Michael Hyatt, Chris Edgar or Pat Brans. We have a new contributor from the UK in Graham Allcott and traditionally we end with a different approach to productivity by Mike Vardy.
Let’s keep it short, shall we?
One of the articles in this issue is about the fact that our email messages are too long… and I think my intro to the magazine has to get shorter, too. That’s why without further ado let me encourage you to read the Productive! Magazine #8 and share it with your friends and family. Also remember that if you have an iPad… there is an App for the Magazine, too
Productive! Magazine #8 is coming very soon. Here’s the interview with our special guest. Michael Sliwinski of Productive! Magazine talks with Jason Fried about business, productivity, team-building, creating great stuff and more. Full transcript of the interview in the Productive Magazine #8 (free PDF or iPad app). Interview has been done in 37signals’ new offices in Chicago when Michael visited them.
Question:
What would you like to ask Jason? Did you know that 37signals inspired me to start Nozbe?
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You can travel with only a carry-on luggage for a week and even 2-week long business trips. In this episode I’m showing you step by step how to prepare a packing list, what you need and how to pack it into one carry-on (and it only weights 10kg!)
Here’s my ultimate to-pack travel check list as a #publicNozbe project
Question:
How do you pack your luggage? Any tips for me?
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Wow, I suspected that releasing the Productive! Magazine iPad app for free would boost our readership but I never suspected that we’d get that far! Just checked our stats on the US Appstore and we’re no. 15 on the Free iPad apps list in “Lifestyle” category – the most crowded magazine-specific category on the Appstore! Here you go:
Help us get to Top 10! We’re still not in the top ten, so please help us spread the word and help us climb up there!
Incredible, we’re way ahead of such popular titles like “Martha’s Stewart Living Magazine” (#16), “Project Magazine” (#31) or Glamour (#33).
Did you ever suspect that a niche “productivity magazine”, compiled by a bunch of productivity enthusiasts could compare and fight with these mainstream publications? Well, to quote US president Obama: “yes, we can!”
Click to get the Productive! Magazine iPad app from the Appstore
Click to view past issues of the Productive! Magazine PDF (#1-#7)
Yours productively,
- Michael, editor of the Productive! Magazine
P.S. We’re now preparing to convert Productive! Magazine #1 with David Allen to the iPad and you should receive it as a push notification next month. So stay tuned!
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