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at amazing Marvin which is an application a lot of
you guys have requested a review on in the Facebook group and what I want to do
today is review this application now marvin is essentially a to do this
application with a few hidden parks we're gonna go over the features then
dive into the pricing and I'll give you my first impressions so guys just before
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Marvin is an application than is only available really for web right now they
do have mobile versions and they're working on revisions the team is very
small there's only two of them Kristina and her husband they are
basically working on this application at the moment but they do very much listen
to the community that's something that I've noticed they've got a Facebook
group for when you become a subscriber with them that will help you to you know
request features and etc so this application works in premise
like it to do this application you can go to the top and naturally add it to do
so for example could be a film YouTube video and you press enter and naturally
it get added to different sections that you're working on but the great thing is
with this application and I say the real magic is that it allows you to add your
own experiences so for example you can switch ON or switch off different
features which is something that a lot of people like about Marfan so as you
can see here this is the dashboard you get and there is an area in the top
right hand corner called strategies where you will access all of that and
that's basically like switch ON switch off mode for all of these additional
features now before we dive into that I did play around this before there is
something called a master list and this really takes the premise of all evil
tasks so for example as you can see here this is the master list you have the
ability to create projects you have the ability to create folders which are
essentially areas and also the ability to create tasks naturally so for example
if I wanted to plan my day ahead I create a few dummies here but let's say
I've got a task today that is specific to one client so I'm gonna say client a
actually need to finish the main document for it if I can spell it right
and as you can see here once you add a task it is like any other to this
application you can essentially get it there you can add notes to it you can
schedule for a specific date so I'm actually gonna schedule it for today and
you can end it to tasks like normal you can actually choose a specific due date
for it so you don't necessarily have to add a due date you can add a start date
and a due date which will add to the abilities as a task if you want to add
specific subtasks you can do so here and delete it from this window too
now this is good and promise you could essentially just go to this and start
adding load itas and projects and folders and that's great a lot of people
like to do that and you can see this list view as well here a lot of people
like doing that you can also configure the view in different ways but let's
just come out of this a second because this is where the real magic is if you
click plan my day it will essentially open this sidebar up here where you can
access the master list and I'm on master list now if I scroll down to freelance
and you can see inside of freelance I have this task but it's
already associated to the actual day that I put it on so you can see in front
of you you have a few tasks and naturally you can move them around you
can even add specific times and dates to them now that's really cool because once
you can start planning your day in terms of like dragging stuff in and plotting
it out it becomes really valuable and loaded people like to do that now you
have a few basic filtering abilities you can filter by category section recurring
whether it is a recurring item or per time and also you can sort them based on
a few different areas so the real magic comes in if you go to top right hand
corner and click strategies now when you land on this page and you can see in
front of you whole host of options you can see here that you've got category
context little smart task labels at task reminders print list smart lists and
timers these are some of the basics so for example if I switch on timers and I
also switched on tags if I go back you'll see down at the bottom a new area
has behind it and that's the timers area essentially when you activate something
on the strategies area it will be created here which is quite nice because
you can basically create your own application so as you can see here if I
click into a task and I click Edit task I can even add labels now which I wasn't
able to do before they say I need to complete this one in town
that's I did the tag ability there now at any point you can make it a recurring
task and even and a project and we'll turn it into a project so you have that
ability and you can even move it to a separate area and change the due date
now going back over to this area you can see that ok brilliant now you can start
adding stuff and you're probably going ok the basics seemed pretty good but
there are a whole host of different areas so for example notes you can add
at specific day notes or specific task notes so I've got task notes turned on
so for example when I go over to film YouTube and you can see that show and
hide tasks appear showing note appear and I can add any context that I want
here now if I go back over to strategies if I go back over to strategies you've
naturally have a different air of each different things so for example
with this area you have the ability to really focus on your prioritization so
for example if you want to assign a priority start of it you can switch this
one on if you want to use a method called in-app Franck which is like
putting its a Brian Tracy methodology allowing you to put a specific tag on a
task that you want to complete first the horrible tasks and you could even have
most important projects and a backburner - but let's say for those two demos the
prioritization you can see at the top right hand corner I've got the Frog
appearing here you can click Edit tasks and here you can see all of the settings
so you can see okay this is a medium priority so I'm going to add a star to
it and it's I don't actually know the Frog scoring system but you can for
example put your frog as this one here and essentially that one is the one you
want to do first in a day to get it out the way read the book eat that frog I've
only listened to the blinker summary of it but I know it's about so associating
frogs to specific tasks that you want to do now if you go down here there there
are a bit more detailed and this specifically focus on the time
management area so you have got a duration estimate so you can for example
give yourself a bit of an outline of how long you roughly going to complete it in
you can add an agenda so this puts actually the tasks and events in a
calendar view which will save you time and also create that like Timeline view
I'm gonna put time tracking on as well so you can actually actually add that
you can add a calendar too if you wanted to now I'm going to add the week
scheduler and let's dive back in and show you how all those work so you can
see here it's automatically changed in terms of what you see you see this
specific agenda in front of you and naturally you can actually go to my week
as well and actually plot that out so you can see here that you can see all
the tasks that I've done up here which is great but if I go to my week I can
access that from there now if I wanted to I could add a specific task here and
as you can see it's automatically added 30 minutes as a duration so up here you
can see that there's a 30 minutes sum so for example if I added multiple of these
for example like I had four or five things that I had during my day in this
again you it would essentially calculate how
long you're gonna spend in a day on tasks and when you're gonna be finished
by so that's a quite a healthy way to process your tasks now for example if I
just wanted to go back I could naturally go to strategies and switch this off if
I had those existing tasks as time associated ones I could easily have and
see those there now here's an area that you can add in called lists you could
have custom squares custom sidebar so you can design your own sidebar you have
to activate it so some of these have activation so for example you have a
settings menu where you can really go into editing the stuff before you use it
okay so when you've created a custom sidebar and you've chosen what you
wanted you can essentially choose what appears here and this allows you to
customize it so you could have your own smart lists you can have an area for
labels and you can even drag stuff on so for example I did this one last month
when I was originally doing this let's say you want to reschedule that one
shopping list for baked goods I think we're baking a cake that day and
you can change all the details to it and one thing I didn't show you just n as
well is that I set up time tracking so if I wanted to track a task it will
appear here and the timer has been started and it will it'll also indicated
reported well at the end so if I go back to distract into this area you can start
to see that you're building up your own application you have a sections area
where you can actually set to a specific like for example break it down for
morning afternoon evening which I already had on you also have a time
blocking sections you have time blocking abilities up at the top so you can
actually share throughout a calendar - there are a few additional things like
time savers where you can have pin tasks and saved items like in templates you
have decision makers which give you a random item but for example a random
task out of your list to do or a suggested task so there are a few little
sort of not gamification that real prioritization things that you can do
inside of this you can also see work modes as well so for example if you want
to beat the clock on certain timers if I switch that one arm so when you activate
the beat the clock you have to give it a time estimate for this case I've got 30
minutes on here and this one starts so for example you
you can't let Marvin hit the top or else the task is not complete so there are a
few strategies in there that will help you to boost your productivity now if I
score to the bomb these are more specific ones for example there's a few
day progress bars and day time targets it was got permanent procrastination
counts staleness warnings and a few mind step based ones as well as email into
Marvin and zapier integrations now there are a few additional ones like the
ability to do GTD based functions like weekly review and also reward tasks so
for example karma based system inside of there and team have let me know that
they tend to add one task or one strategy per month so they always adding
new ones this one is a brand new one the ability to add start dates from the last
time I checked it now just to give you a bit more of an overview of this
application what I would say about this application is it's not as fluid as some
of the other applications it takes a bit of time to learn definitely that's why I
had a call with the team because I was like I need to understand this a bit
more and they explained it very well but once you understand it once you can be
using it it can be a very good way to start plotting out your week now the
real drawbacks in a moment is it's only available on web I would say the design
is a little bit clunky but again early days for this application and also the
price tag is pretty high now naturally with most tools there is a free trial
but per month this application is $12 you can pay a yearly one which is $8 but
you have to pay annually for that there is a 50% off rate for students and if
you want to do a lifetime it's $300 a one-off lifetime cost though this
application has a few other bonuses there is naturally search and a good
resource center there's also archive and stats you can access all of your
recurring items and smart dates so once a smart list so once you're set up it
can really take you through the motions there's also cloud sync so for example
once they do really enhance there are other applications you do have access
there you have integrations and a lot of layout changes themes you have a lot of
themes visual fonts you can go really granular with this application in terms
of making it your own everything from sound to debilities you
do now who I recommend this application or definitely recommend it for people
who like to view in a gender view and also like to fully customize their
application now it's very early days for this app at the moment but I know a lot
of people have fallen in love with it and I've seen some of the messages that
you guys are send in the Facebook group and a lot of people have been getting on
with it and really investing their time into there so guys that is Marvin
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