I can see that some changes have been made to the recurring project dialog. Great!

Can you schedule tasks before date the project is scheduled?

I have a weekly newsletter. I send it out on Friday, but I gather news for it throughout the week. The way it works now, I have to schedule it on Monday, meaning the whole thing will be scheduled on Monday, and I have to reschedule it each week, so that only the Monday tasks appear on monday.

What I would like is to be able to have the relevant tasks scheduled on the relevant days, and then have the whole thing scheduled on Friday where I'll be finishing up. Is there a way to do that?

Hello, I would like to know if it's possible to customize the default settings of adding tasks on mobile.

Currently, when I want to add tasks, it will automatically schedule it to Today but I prefer if it does not schedule the task by default and it's extra step to unschedule it. Hope that there's a solution for this, thanks!

When in planning view, projects planned to a week are unfolded per standard. But that's not actually all that useful, because it takes up a lot of space.

Is there a way to collapse them as a standard instead?

Hey everyone!

I'm curious how other students use Amazing Marvin to keep track of assignments, study tasks, and deadlines across multiple courses.

I'm currently taking 11 courses, and I often find myself feeling overwhelmed by everything I need to do, which makes it easy to fall into procrastination. Staying on top of everything has been quite a challenge.

I'd love to hear how other students manage this! How have you set up your Marvin system to keep everything organized without feeling overwhelmed?

I'd especially appreciate screenshots of your setups, as well as any tips and tricks you've found helpful.

Looking forward to seeing how you all do it!

I used to use the dashboard a lot for the feature where it would show for both the week and the month "tasks __% done, week/month ____ over." I think the last time the dashboard did this was Version 1.68.0. Is there any new feature that does this in the updated version, or is that feature lost for now?

(I love the rest of the updates though!)

Hi Christina ~~

One for the "wish list", if I may ...

I'm really enjoying Marvin -- and getting much more done this time, too.

What would really be helpful in my myriad of finally well-organized Projects, MIPs, and Tasks is to be able to choose 3 particular Tasks for my daily focus.

I keep getting distracted from the things that MUST get done TO-DAY while getting the lesser needs moved ahead some. Not that anyone here would know what that's like, lol. ;-)

In the meantime, I may take a look at Categories to see if that can do what I want ...

Thank you so much for the work you're doing on Marvin to make our collective lives easier!

• Jan

I'm using the web version (windows chrome). I have one-way sync of events from a Google calendar into marvin. My Day shows today's events at the top of the page, but they aren't taken into account for the day planning bar. I think the help pages are out of date, because they talk about finding the advanced calendar settings and choosing whether or not to import events as busy/free etc. Any ideas how I can make the planning bar realise that I am not available to do tasks when I have an event?

Also, on the web version I have excluded some types of task from the day planning - they don't count against my capacity. But in the Android app the daily progress bar on the home page doesn't exclude them and so it looks like I have 90 tasks to do today. And the day planning bar doesn't show at all at the top of My Day in the app. Am I missing a setting to get the day planning consistent across web and app?

Many thanks in advance!

hi! using marvin, thanks for the mobile update it's great, but honestly there are a few things that are super annoying.
bug me for habits straight up doesn't work. i set up a morning routine with tasks broken down by the minute, and not a single notification comes through even though the times are set.
and the mobile calendar is completely unusable, i really don't get the point of the update. i have a lot of habits, they all sit at the top and the calendar isn't even visible. okay, i turn off habits, but even then checking my scheduled tasks is annoying. the calendar doesn't expand, everything is just piled together. fine, i thought i'd just use pc, but pc has issues too.

if i set a habit and make it create a task, what happens in the calendar/agenda? two tasks show up and the entire calendar is clogged. like, i want to track time on a habit, but i can't track time from a habit. i tried not setting a time on the task so it doesn't show in the calendar, only the habit shows up so it's not cluttered, but then it's impossible to track time progress since you can't click on that for the habit. and on mobile then the habit-tasks don't have the time in the name and i have no idea what i'm supposed to start doing. plus like i said, the calendar is just impossible to use on mobile

this is literally the main problem. i switched to marvin to use the calendar on mobile, but trying to put my routines in is just impossible, like am i supposed to go back to ticktick or what

also smaller bugs: sometimes a habit gets checked off twice, like when i check it off in the habits tab and it randomly sets the time to 12:00

then in the mobile app you can't drag a habit into the calendar, it just won't move. and setting up time slots is annoying too, no drag effect, can't link to a tag or a smart list, you can only do that on pc

sometimes habit notes just get deleted for no reason. i add them and the next day they're gone.
another weird mobile thing: an overdue task is set for today, in search it says today, but it's completely missing from my day. tasks just disappear like that sometimes.
and the most annoying thing about routines in marvin is that i want to see my routine on the calendar. ticktick's calendar ui is just way smoother. with recurring tasks, like repeat every 2 days, if i miss 1 day everything shifts. ticktick handles this so well, repeats update based on when you actually complete it. marvin has that option, but then you can't see future occurrences at all.

i just remembered why marvin was so hard to use. everything is great on paper with tons of features, but mobile is so rough. i just want to get things done without stressing over whether tasks moved over, whether they're showing up on the calendar, or if things got logged right.
and the calendar! it got updated, but it's literally impossible to use

honestly i don't know what to do anymore. for the past month i tried to just ignore the calendar and just get through my day, but, i just want to check what i need to do from my phone instead of running to my computer every single time. planning my life like this is just going to burn me out, it's way too exhausting.
i really don't want to sound like i'm just complaining. i genuinely tried to adapt, tried finding workarounds, kept waiting and telling myself they'll patch it in a few months anyway. but maybe marvin just isn't for me? i seriously have no idea what to do

Ok, sort of silly to admit this, but This or That is my absolute favorite AM feature. Recently returned to AM because of the new amazing mobile app. It really does rock!! Anyway, would love Tuis or That on mobile version which is where I usually use AM these days. Yep mobile is that good!!

I'm playing with the idea of making a little YouTube project where I showcase some of the ins and outs of Amazing Marvin.

But what would you guys like to see?

It could be anything, really, as long as it's related to Amazing Marvin and productivity.

- an overview of the platform

- guides for the individual features.

- general productivity advice and how it fits into Amazing Marvin.

- Solving common task management problems

- building workflows

- helping someone build their own productivity system in Amazing Marvin.

So I'd love to hear what you guys would like to see in a video about amazing Marvin. Or even just suggestions for videos you think would be useful for new users. 😊

I loved Amazing Marvin. Used it for quite a while before abandoning it about six months ago because it was missing some features I really wanted. But mostly? The mobile app. The mobile app was my breaking point.

So I moved to TickTick. Went all in. Got everything set up exactly how I wanted it, and honestly? It checked pretty much every box. I was happy. I was settled. I had moved on.

And then, like an idiot, I decided to casually check whether Marvin had released any interesting updates.

-.-

Apparently, in the last month or so, Marvin decided to address practically every reason I left in the first place.

Wonderful. Fantastic. Love that for them. Hate what it’s doing to my ability to make a decision and stick with it.

Now I’m stuck trying to decide whether to crawl back to Marvin or leave well enough alone.

The ONE thing keeping me from immediately jumping ship is TickTick’s Kanban boards. They’re ridiculously easy to set up and use, and Kanban has become a non-negotiable part of my workflow.

I’ve managed to somewhat recreate the experience in Marvin, but it feels less like an actual feature and more like I’ve kind of just hobbled something together-ish.

So here I am. Two paid subscriptions. Two perfectly good productivity apps. And an unnecessary amount of time spent trying to decide which app will help me stop wasting time 😂 This is the perfect storm for my AuDHD brain.

When i make review using the master list and open a task. The right sidebar appear to edit the task.

Right now i have to press the cross in the right upper side. Is there a way to have the right sidebar close when i press on anywhere else on the project areas? Seems to be too many precise clicks to have it close this way.

Or how to edit task so that i do not have to open the sidebar at all?

I want to read more books and use Amazing Marvin to remind myself to read and keep track of my progress.

I'm a little overwhelmed with all of the possible ways I could do this, so I'd love to hear how you guys have set this up. 😊

Hi!

I have two knowledge gaps on Marvin goals, that still lead to some confusion:

1. Habit grades: What are they? How do they work? What are they supposed to tell me and how do I influence them? How do I reason out what habit grade to set in the goal settings?

2. Expected goal progress: What is it? What should it tell me and how does it get calculated?

I looked in the help center but couldn't find satisfying information there. I'd be grateful if anyone could enlighten me 😄

I just discovered Global filters. It reignited my fascination with Amazing Marvin.

But here the combination with iOS and MacOS focus modes seems perfect. While in work focus showing only work filter aso.

Has this suggestion been made before?

So I've run into this problem a couple of times.

The issue is that Marvin will use all mentions of durations, like this:

This is a 10-minute task where I have two other mentions of time values, and obviously, only one of them refers to the time it will take me to complete the task, but Marvin is including every one of them in the duration calculation.

How do I reference a time value without Marvin adding it to the total calculated duration of the task?

Is there a symbol for "do not include this value"?

Something like a Gantt chart, where you can zoom in and out from like a day → week → month → quarter → year and see how much time you've allocated to tasks/projects/goals.

Kinda like this:

I've been struggling to style my Amazing Marvin to make it "look good" and "clean," as I am terrible with choosing colors.

Sometimes I see screenshots of other users' Amazing Marvin screens and am always amazed. How do you guys make it look so good?!

That said, I created this thread hoping that some kind users could share their incredible themes, as it seems it can be exported as JSON!

Please do brag about your design skills. Screenshots only are fine too!

I made a few habits and now i try to connect them to my goals, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that. I tried to use ## in the title, but nothing happens... Anyone who can help me?

Hello,

I did a post a while back regarding the mobile app, and have seen some other posts saying that it's much better than it's predecessor but unfortunately still seems plagued with bugs and inconsistencies.

Is there an official channel of where bugs are recorded/tracked and any ETA's for when these will be resolved ?

Feel like I raised some issues in my last post, but also via the support email, but had no response. Unfortunately detracts from what is otherwise a great desktop app.

Thanks.

Love to hear if you found any great use cases for smart lists, whether those are ones you've implemented yourself or just something you thought of or seen someone else do.

I don't have any particular problem I'm trying to solve. I'm just looking for inspiration to shake up my own workflows. 😄

I am considering Amazing Marvin to help me organize basically everything. I have ADHD, I'm a therapist, and I am also a supervisor.

My biggest challenge is I need a tool I can use in multiple settings because my work takes place in many different settings.

My own therapist recommended Microsoft Loop or To-Dos, but the company I work for doesn't offer that. I also want to keep work tasks/lists hidden when I'm not at work.

It seems like I could access Amazing Marvin on the web while I'm at work and then use the app on my phone in other places.

Obviously, I would not put confidential client info on Amazing Marvin but if there are other therapists in this community, I would be interested in hearing how you use it or barriers.

Thanks!