Marvin Help

How to customize the right click menu and hover buttons

Warning: this is an advanced feature!  Prepare yourself for maximum customization.

Motivation

Based on frequent user request, we wanted to make it so that you could configure which actions appear for hover buttons and the right click menu...

Features

The first row in the screenshot above indicates that a "Schedule tomorrow" action is shown whenever you right click a task or project (via the checkmark and flag icons) in the Main View (via the "Show in Main View" chooser).

The second row indicates that there's then a divider line, but only in the Master List, and only for tasks, categories, and the Inbox.  Why not projects?  Because the user has clicked the flag icon to disable the divider for projects, which is why it's grayed out.

Notice that the "Track time" action at the end is disabled (crossed out).  If you hover over the action title, Marvin will tell you why it's disabled.  In this case, the red "strategy is off" text also tells you why the action is disabled.  But it can also be disabled if you've clicked the eye icon to temporarily disable an action, or if you click to gray out and disable all the item types.

You can drag and drop to reorder actions.  You can add additional actions either by clicking/shift+clicking the plus button on any action, or the clicking/shift+clicking the add button at the bottom of the list.  Click the trash to delete actions - don't worry you can easily re-add any action.

The More menu

Both menus can have a More... button that opens a second list of actions. Use it for actions you need now and then, so your main menu stays short. You set up what goes inside it under More Menu Actions in the strategy settings.

Item Types

As mentioned above, you can click the item type icons to configure whether an action is available on tasks, projects, categories, and the Inbox.  This can be useful, for example, if you want a right click action to mark projects done, but don't need it for tasks since they always have a checkbox readily available.

Many actions only apply to tasks and projects.  For example, it's not possible in Marvin to schedule categories, so the item type icons look like this by default:

The Inbox gets its own item type icon since many actions apply to all categories except the Inbox.

Show In

If you click the "Show in..." chooser, you can choose in what area of Marvin an action will be available:

If you want an action to show in two areas of Marvin, but not all areas of Marvin, just create a copy of the item.  For example, you might want to show a label group in "Any screen" or "Any smart list".