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Task Hints

Task Hints strategy gives you helpful reminders and affirmations when creating tasks, projects, categories, or events.

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Written by Branko
Updated over 3 months ago
Task Hints strategy card

The Task Hints strategy helps guide your thought process when creating new tasks, projects, categories, or events. By enabling this feature (☰ → Features/Strategies → Task Hints), you can set up hints to ensure that important steps aren’t missed during task creation, such as adding labels, subtasks, or duration estimates.

This strategy is ideal for users who follow the GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology or any workflow that requires a specific checklist when creating new tasks.

Displaying a task hint when creating a new task in Today list

Setting up hints

To set up hints and enable this strategy, click on the menu button, and then go to Features/Strategies, or simply press "S" on your keyboard.

Going to ☰ → Features/Strategies

Then when you find Task Hints, click on the strategy card or on the settings button and there you'll be able to enter your hints:

Setting up Task Hints

Affirmations integration

If you're using Affirmations strategy, you can use the $AFFIRMATION placeholder. Then each time a hint is displayed, Marvin will replace the placeholder with one of your affirmations.

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