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Add tasks to Marvin with your voice [Android]

Adding tasks to your Marvin Android app with voice input

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Written by Branko
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Step 1: Install Automate app

To add tasks to Marvin using your voice, you'll need to install the Automate app from Google Play Store.

Step 2: Download the flow from the Community

Once you're in the app, open the sidebar and tap on the "Community" link. This will open the list of user-submitted automations that you can download and use. Open Search on the top-right and type "Marvin". You will see one called "Add tasks to Amazing Marvin" with #36402 ID. Open it and click on the "Download" button.

Step 3: Edit the flow

In order for tasks to end up in your Marvin, you'll need to edit the flow and add your API token. First, open Marvin on your laptop/PC and go to ☰ → Strategies → API. Click on the "View Credentials" button and copy your apiToken:

Save this token somewhere and go back to Automate. Open the "Add tasks to Amazing Marvin" flow and click on the edit button on the bottom right. This will open the flow which contains blocks that are used to automate this process. Tap on the "Set variable headers..." block and paste your apiToken where the "Your-API-Token-Goes-Here" text is and keep the quotation marks.

Step 3b: Set your timezone (optional but recommended)

After adding your API token, you may want to configure your timezone to ensure tasks are scheduled correctly. Without this setting, tasks added late in the evening might be scheduled for tomorrow instead of today because the server uses GMT time.

To fix this, tap on the "Set variable headers..." block again and add "timezoneOffset": your offset to the JSON. Replace your offset with your timezone offset in minutes:

  • Pacific Time: -480

  • Mountain Time: -420

  • Central Time: -360

  • Eastern Time: -300

  • GMT/UTC: 0

{
"Content-Type": "application/json; charset=UTF-8",
"X-API-Token": "Your-API-Token-Goes-Here",
"timezoneOffset": 0
}

Step 4: Add a shortcut/widget to your home screen

To easily access this flow, add a shortcut or a widget for it to your home screen. You'll be asked to choose which flow you want to add and to choose an icon.

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