Deep Links Strategy

How to link to a specific task or project from anywhere

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

The Dashboard

How to use the Amazing Marvin Dashboard

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Updated over a week ago

Events

Learn more about the events type in Marvin

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Super Focus Mode (SFM)

Focus on one task at a time

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Calendar Sync (Google, iCal, Yahoo, CalDav)

How to sync your calendars with Amazing Marvin

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Custom Screens feature

Learn what you can do with the custom screens feature

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Snooze Feature

Hide a task or project until a specific time or for a set duration

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Updated over a week ago

Review Date

Set a date to review a project or task

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Updated over a week ago

Agenda

See your daily list in a timeline

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Calendar

Learn about the Marvin calendar strategy

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Smart List Day Alerts

Get a notification when a Smart List contains an item

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Updated over a week ago

Top Mini List

See a Smart List as a small list on top of your day

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Updated over a week ago

Work Session Scheduler

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Updated over a week ago

Category Context

Need to see in what category or project a task is in from your day view? Use the category context strategy!

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Updated over a week ago

Task Labels (Tags)

Learn how to create labels, add them to tasks, edit and delete them

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Reminders (Notifications)

How to set reminders (notifications ) for tasks

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Updated over a week ago

Print lists

Print your day view, Smart Lists and projects

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Timers in Marvin

There are currently two built-in timers in Marvin: a sand clock and work session timer (aka pomodoro)

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Task and Project Notes

Enabling notes for tasks allows you to add some extra information to a task

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Priority Stars

Assign three different priority levels to tasks and projects.

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Smart Lists

Smart Lists are lists that automatically get populated based on some pre-set filters. Some people call this custom views or smart filters.

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Updated over a week ago

Custom Sidebar

How to use the custom sidebar strategy

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Updated over a week ago

Custom Squares

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Matrix

How to set up the Matrix strategy

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Start Dates

Also known as tickler date or defer date (when a task/project becomes actionable)

Written by Christina
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Dependencies

Don't see certain items until others are completed

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Project Focus Picker

How the project focus picker strategy works

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Project Shortcuts

Have your MIPs shown at the top of your day as a project radial

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Most Important Projects

Assign a crown to your current most important projects (MIPs)

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Updated over a week ago

End Dates

How to use end dates

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Updated over a week ago

Planning Ahead

Want to make a plan for what to do this month and this week? This strategy has you covered.

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Week Scheduler

Use this strategy to plan your days a week ahead while seeing all days at a glance.

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Backburner

How to use the Backburner strategy

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Updated over a week ago

Time Blocking

How to use the time blocking strategy

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Updated this week

Missing Next Steps Warning

Easily see which project is missing next steps with the missing next steps warning/alert

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Updated over a week ago

Weekly Review

All about the weekly review strategy

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Updated over a week ago

Eat the Frog

Learn how to assign frogs to tasks and when to do it

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Updated over a week ago

Procrastination Count

Get an exclamation mark added to a task for each day you delayed it

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Saved Items/Templates

Have a task, group of tasks or project you need multiple times? Use templates/saved items.

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Pinned Tasks

Pin a task and schedule a copy of it instead of the original task

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Updated over a week ago

Email to Marvin

Send emails to your unique Marvin address to create a task or project in Marvin

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Staleness Warning

Easily see which task/project has gone stale (is very old)

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Updated over a week ago

Time Tracking

Track how long you work on each task

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Updated over a week ago

Duration Estimates

Add a duration estimate to a task

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Suggested Task

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Random task

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The Task Jar

How the task jar strategy works

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Updated over a week ago

Auto-schedule due Tasks

How to make sure Marvin schedules tasks that are due for you

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Daily Time Targets

How to set time tracking targets for yourself

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Updated over a week ago

Day Progress Bar

Visualize your task completion for the day.

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Updated over a week ago

Main Category Sections

Group your tasks in the day view based on their main categories

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Updated over a week ago

Custom Sections

Section your day any way you want

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Just the essentials

Separate your daily tasks into "essential" and "bonus" tasks

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Time Block Sections

Section your daily list based on your time blocks

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Updated over a week ago

Break the day down

Break up your daily to-do list into morning, afternoon and evening

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Updated over a week ago

Reward Tasks

How to use the reward tasks strategy

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Updated over a week ago

Beat The Clock

A fun way to work off tasks

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Updated over a week ago

Zapier Integration

Learn how to connect Marvin to thousands of apps with our Zapier integration.

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

System Triggers

Desktop-only strategy!

Written by Mark
Updated over a week ago

Affirmations

See a custom message every day at the top of your day view

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

Day Notes

Get a note space for each day to use for whatever you need

Written by Christina
Updated over a week ago

The Wall

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Updated over a week ago

Split View

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Updated over a week ago