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Basic features & How to

Learn the basics of how to use Marvin

41 articles in this collection
Written by Christina Willner and Mark

One-click timers in the custom sidebar

Written by Mark
Updated over a week ago

What are the internal custom sidebar links?

How to add links to areas within Marvin, as well as one-click timers, to your custom sidebar

Written by Mark
Updated over a week ago

Archive mode

What is archive mode? How can I enable archive mode? How can I configure which tasks are archived?

Written by Mark
Updated over a week ago

How can I un-hide completed tasks in my day?

Use the right hover menu to hide and unhide items in your day

Written by Mark
Updated over a week ago

Why can't I turn a project into a task?

Why "how can I turn a project into a task" doesn't have an easy answer.

Written by Mark
Updated over a week ago

Task and Project Search

Looking for something? Use the global search

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Due Dates

How to use due dates in Marvin

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

The difference between do and due dates

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Categories, Projects and Tasks

The three main item types in Marvin

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to convert items into other items

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

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

The different dates in Marvin

Due date, do date, start date and end date

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

My Day

What is the "My day" view?

Taking life one day at a time

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to schedule tasks into your days

Schedule tasks into your day

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

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

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Strategies

How to turn features on and off with Strategies

How to customize Marvin

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Helpful Basics

Closing Overlays

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

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Marvin Shortcuts

Shortcuts can make navigation and working in Marvin much faster

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Using shortcuts while creating a task

"Task input" shortcuts

Written by Christina Willner
Updated this week

Sorting lists

How to sort lists

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Filtering lists

How to filter lists

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to add hyperlinks to task and project titles/notes

Have task/project titles or notes link to any external website or file

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Tasks

What are tasks?

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to edit/rename a task title

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Bulk editing tasks

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

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Re-ordering tasks

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

All about subtasks

How to add, edit and remove subtasks

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to delete a task

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

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.

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to complete a project

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

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Project/Category Fullscreen View

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

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Recurring Items (tasks and projects)

When to create recurring items

Recurring tasks and projects can make your life much easier

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Recurring tasks

Learn how recurring tasks work

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Recurring projects

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to create recurring tasks

There are two ways to create recurring tasks

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

How to add, edit and remove attributes to recurring tasks

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

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Advanced

What is the difference between scheduling and planning a task?

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Dashboard

The Dashboard

How to use the Amazing Marvin Dashboard

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Super Focus Mode

Super Focus Mode (SFM)

Focus on one task at a time

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Stats

Completed Task Stats

See stats on your completed tasks

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Archive

Archive (completed items)

Where completed tasks and projects live

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago

Sync

Sync Health Check

What is this and how to do it

Written by Christina Willner
Updated over a week ago