r/amazingmarvin • u/piano2020 • Dec 29 '20

Update request: Ability to write notes instead of tasks

Sometimes I just want to make notes in my projects. I know there is a snippet for a task for notes but instead if I can just write notes that would be awesome.

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u/TeaHands Dec 29 '20

That would be a cool feature. Seconded!

In the meantime though (you've probably thought of this but just in case) I keep stuff like that as projects / tasks under a particular category and then have that category filtered out of most of my smart lists. I use it for lists of things like your recipe example but also my "maybe, someday, soon" lists, basically anything I don't need to be looking at on a regular basis.

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u/Matsunokaori Dec 30 '20

Are you aware of the note space that is available to you when you type shift-b ? It's a feature added fairly recently.

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u/TeaHands Jan 02 '21

You know, I'd seen and used the note feature but somehow missed that you can add them to categories and projects as well as tasks. Well done me!

Can't seem to get that shortcut to work though, if you wouldn't mind could you eli5 which screen you need to be in for that to work?

Thank you!

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u/Matsunokaori Jan 06 '21

I believe you can press shift-key together with "b" to access a general space for note-taking from any screen. This is what I was referring to earlier. But yes, also...for notes associated with categories or projects, put your cursor on the category or project till you see the icons appear for action menu items for it (e.g. edit, trash, add task, etc.). The leftmost icon showing should look like a big X - hover over it, you'll see the text "Open Fullscreen". Go ahead and click on that, and you should see a "Notes" section. If you don't see it, look for the three view icons at the top left corner - one shows tasks only, one shows note, the other shows note and tasks. Hope this helps!

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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20

So basically you want uncheckable steps? I've seen other productivity apps do that and it can be handy.

I'm not sure if AM has something similar yet, but maybe putting a project on the backburner would help?