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Strategies & Workflow customization

How to turn features on and off with Strategies

How to customize Marvin

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How to pick Strategies

Learn how to use the strategies

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Workflow Library

All you need to know about the workflow library

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Master List

What is the purpose of the Master List?

Find out why the Master List is a key part of Marvin and what to add there

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Categories, Projects and Tasks

The three main item types in Marvin

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How to convert items into other items

Turn a project into a category, or task into a project etc.

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My Day

What is the "My day" view?

Taking life one day at a time

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How to schedule tasks into your days

Schedule tasks into your day

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The Reschedule Dialog

What is the reschedule dialog?

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Lists

How to change the layout

Vertical, horizontal, 2x2 or 3x3, you can have it all

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Filtering lists

How to filter lists

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Sorting lists

How to sort lists

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Dates

The different dates in Marvin

Due date, do date, start date and end date

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The difference between do and due dates

Scheduling something vs. assigning a deadline - a crucial difference

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Due Dates

How to use due dates in Marvin

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Tasks

What are tasks?

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Using shortcuts while creating a task

"Task input" shortcuts

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How to edit/rename a task title

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Bulk editing tasks

Want to apply the same action to multiple tasks at once? No problem!

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Re-ordering tasks

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All about subtasks

How to add, edit and remove subtasks

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How to delete a task

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Projects

How to add due dates to a project with a deadline.

You can add a due date to any project that has a fixed deadline.

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How to complete a project

All done with a project? Here is how you mark it done in Marvin.

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Project/Category Fullscreen View

"Zoom" in on your projects for focused planning and work

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Recurring Items (tasks and projects)

When to create recurring items

Recurring tasks and projects can make your life much easier

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Recurring tasks

Learn how recurring tasks work

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Recurring projects

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How to create recurring tasks

There are two ways to create recurring tasks

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How to add, edit and remove attributes to recurring tasks

How to add priority stars, frogs, labels, time estimates to recurring tasks

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Helpful Basics

Task and Project Search

Looking for something? Use the global search

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Closing Overlays

Close overlays to return to your "My day" home screen.

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Marvin Shortcuts

Shortcuts can make navigation and working in Marvin much faster

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Stats

Completed Task Stats

See stats on your completed tasks

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Archive (completed items)

Where completed tasks and projects live

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Sync

Sync Health Check

What is this and how to do it

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