Amazing Marvin - Customizable task manager and day planner

Hey Product Hunters, I know, I know… another task app. It seems like we get one of those every day around here. But Amazing Marvin has a really unique approach to productivity and fills a hole in the todo list space. I originally created Marvin for myself. I was running an ecommerce business with my sister and I felt incredibly overwhelmed by the amount and complexity of work. And as a chronic procrastinator, no matter how many lists I wrote, I just wasn’t getting those tasks done. The vision for Marvin is to create an all-in-one productivity tool that allows people to find a productivity system that works for their unique brain and life. Marvin has a unique core concept that marries the traditional todo list with a daily scheduling approach. And there are tons of customizable features that are designed to help with specific productivity challenges (e.g. What do I do first? When should I do what? I feel too overwhelmed to get started! etc.) We have a lot planned for Marvin. Our roadmap is public and growing. We also add new features nearly every week. Here are some things coming up: - Calendar integration - Habit tracking - Gamification - Built-in accountability - Goal Mapping If you have any questions about Marvin, fire away. I love talking about this stuff. :) Christina EDIT: Marvin is available as a web app, desktop apps (Mac, Windows and Linux) and there are reduced feature Mobile apps for android and iOS!

Regarding time blocking: does Marvin help schedule tasks for you?

Really like the product :) Thinking of a lifetime subscription! Any coupon codes there haha? Also, are you guys going to stick around the product for a while or do you plan to get acquired at some point? And if that happens, what happens to my lifetime subscription? Thanks for your reply and good luck

What an amazing app. I love everything. The design, the UX, the strategies. I have tried many productivity apps and it seems nothing works for me... But Marvin seems different. Not too rigid, but not too flexible either. I am hopeful I'll be able to tame my ADHD brain with Marvin's help. I'll post a review in a couple of weeks to say how it turned out. :)

I have been a Todoist premium user for years now and I use it for just about every part of my life. For reference, I have a "Grand Master" karma rating in the app (basically I use it a lot lol). All of this to say that it would take a lot for me to switch from my tried and proven productivity flow. On top of this, Amazing Marvin is still early in its development so no native mac app (yet). Despite all of this, I am ridiculously impressed with all of the features that are packed into Amazing Marvin! I have been looking for an all in one productivity app that would not only capture and organize my todo's, but one that would help me to get all of those todo's done. I am already in the process of transitioning over all of my todo's from Todoist to Amazing Marvin, and so far everything is going well. I am very excited to see how the development of Amazing Marvin goes. I will likely be subscribing to the annual plan if everything continues to go well 😊

I tried a lot of to do and productivity apps. Then I stepped in Amazing Marvin.

It's very different and better. Why?

Because it gets updated very often with key features. Because every other apps are limited by their design, where AM offer you many ways to modulate your workflow. Because it is a product thought around those limits and productivity problems.

Since I adopted AM, I'm no longer in search of the best task helper.

It fits all my needs.

At it's current state, there still need a better mobile app, some ifttt/zapier integration and I can't wait for the calendar feature!

I totally recommend Amazing Marvin for all the people frustrated by the other productivity apps.

Pros:

Modularity, freedom, efficiency, communication with devs, speed of updates, all the strategies, statistics...

Cons:

None

Just signed up today after seeing here on Product Hunt and I'm already really happy with it. Went ahead and got a year subscription.

I've tried hard to find just the right task manager but none of them seem to fit what I need. With as much customization is available in Marvin, I think this might finally be the one.

Gotta get some work done today, but I'm looking forward to really digging in when I have the time.

Pros:

Hugely customizable, lots of options in their "Strategies" section, integrated pomodoro timer, great Best Practices documentation, nice UI.

Cons:

None that I have noticed yet.

I've came across marvin on reddit more than a year ago, and as usual for me decided to give it a go after being seduced by the product page arguments, but what tends to happen is very quickly i either get bored or the product doesn't deliver on what it promised, but Marvin was different, the "strategies" are really a game changer, and allow for trying many different workflows until you find the way that works for you, it makes it fun to use, and I also learned how the day planning approach would be efficient for me. To put it simply, Marvin has been amazing, and checks almost all the boxes for me, 1 year i've been using it and counting, and i'm sure it will only keep getting better!

Pros:

the customization and strategies to beat procrastination is just unmatched by any other pm/todo tool I tried before.

Cons:

lack of integrations up until the zapier integration a week ago, still a lot to do to improve how Marvin integrates with other tools

Haha, might have to sign up - just because of the title ;-)

Excited to start trying this today. Looks like something I'm going to enjoy. Love the ability to set a cycle on the tomato timer.

Only just started a trial but so far, so very good. Smooth signup process, the training process (by using tasks already created) was smart. Genuinly excited to try the strategies and the timers are so handy. Good work people :)

Pros:

Great sign up process, nice features lice timers and strategies, good value pricing and deals

Cons:

None so far for me

I have tried so many productivity apps, and this one is fantastic. The best part is it can be whatever type of productivity app you want it to be.

This is rad! :100: Are there plans to launch an offline version? :)

Two weeks ago, I decided to give Amazing Marvin a try. Organizing myself and my schedule is THE biggest challenge in my life. I have tried numerous tools to organize myself... Apps to manage tasks and projects, fancy calendars, journals (including the infamous bullet journal), ... Name it; I've tried it. 📒🗓️📊 Nothing worked. I could never stick with it for more than a few days. And by "a few", I mean 4 days... That was my personal record. Here is the super-procrastinator-looking-for-a-solution-cycle : 1. Miss yet another deadline. 2. Find an amazing productivity app/tool/trick. 3. Use it for a couple of days. 4. Get overwhelmed. 5. Stop using the app/tool/trick. As you can imagine, I was skeptical when I first met Marvin. After having failed to regain control over my motivation and schedule so many times, using so many different tools, I kind of felt like a lost cause. I was starting to believe I would have to deal with my random spurts of energy and multiple missed deadlines for the rest of my life. Well. It's been two weeks, and Marvin and I are having a great time. Actually, I've rarely been this productive. 🔥 What makes Marvin different, in my opinion, is its flexibility. Since it's built on strategies, you don't feel like a failure when it does not work perfectly for you right at the start. You can add strategies to your workflow slowly and get to know them. A strategy does not work for you? Just deactivate it. I also LOVE the masterlist, and especially the inbox. I feel overwhelmed when I have to prioritize and organize everything immediately, which is often the case with productivity apps. Now I just jot everything down, and prioritize things the next morning. Now, I don't want to exaggerate... Amazing Marvin is not a magic solution. I did not become an amazingly productive person in just 14 days. But I improved. A lot. 😉 And I'm confident I will keep getting better, since I still have many strategies to try out, and sticking with Marvin is so, so easy. Exactly 14 days ago, when I started using the app, I entered this task in my masterlist: "If you can see this, leave a review for Amazing Marvin on Product Hunt." I had selected today as the due date, so Marvin started reminding me of the task a few days ago. And since I'm on top of things this week, I had the time to write this great review, for a great product. Give it a try! 😊

After trying a lot of apps, I finally found the perfect one for my use. The ability to customize the app with lots of strategies is fantastic: it's allowing me to delete procrastination. The app has nice UI, updates happen most likely every week and, last but not least, developers are so kind. Among all the apps available, Amazing Marvin is the best because it can give you tips and strategies to defeat everything that is harmful to everyone's productivity. Moreover, in Marvin there are many functions such as pomodoro technique, weekly review, time blocking and so on. All in one app! I can recommend this app to everyone and I can assure you that using it daily, you will find great benefits.

Pros:

Customization, modularity, lots of useful strategies and functions, frequent updates.

Cons:

None

I learned about this app via the r/productivity subreddit on Reddit. I downloaded it and gave it a try. I have to say I think this app has tremendous potential. I've been an Ominfocus user for years now and I feel it's getting outdated and the iPhone app version is not fun to manoeuvre around. Marvin feels like the answer to that. I love the innovate views, the way it helps you perform tasks (I love that the 'Eat That Frog' concept got in there), I love the project view with the percentages. I honestly look forward to seeing what Marvin will become. I began to setup Marvin as my main tool for GTD however after playing around I did find myself getting frustrated. Perhaps I need to take more time to get to know the system better but I kept running into metaphorical walls with the product. I kept clicking on things that brought me somewhere else; I kept adding a task but for some reason, it'd type out elsewhere and would only work when I 'x' out of something else - I felt I kept having to re-do things. One of the more frustrating things for me was the calendar - I wanted to block out my day and schedule tasks but I couldn't allot time to something unless it was a project and afterwards I had trouble just dragging my projects onto the schedule. It kept asking for 'time blocks' and I couldn't find where to create those. I don't know - I may not be the intended target for an app like this but I just felt like I kept doing the same thing over and over and when I finally managed to get something I wanted done I couldn't recreate the result. I will, however, take some more time with Marvin as I do feel that the app, the team, and the philosophy behind it are truly onto something interesting in the world of task and project management apps.

I like your pricing model with lifetime option, very cool. This looks like a task planner I would actually use, looking forward to testing this.

Very happy with this

Pros:

So many options you can customize it how ever you want

Cons:

They don't have EVERY SINGLE option, even though they have so many more than every other productivity app.

This looks like it could end up being my absolute favorite todo app, because of its custom options. However, two things I'm waiting on before I fully dive in. Both involve the ability to ubiquitously capture thoughts and ideas as simply and soon as possible before I forget them or become digitally distracted from capturing them somehow. 1. A dedicated mac app to allow universal hotkey to open new todo capture window. This could possibly be accomplished via an Alfred workflow instead of an app, but Ideally an app would be ideal. Although having tested a "web app" version with Fluid, I can say, it's troublesome to have "Esc" be a common function in the platform while also causing the app to exit fullscreen. 2. Integration with Google Home, to allow adding tasks by voice. I didn't mention a native iOS app, but that would probably be a necessity too.

I want to marry it. I have gotten enthusiastic about plenty of todo apps before, spent a long time setting them up, and then don't end up using them. Amazing Marvin actually made me stick with it and I actually have been more productive. Shocking.

Pros:

Helps me hack my terrible brain

Cons:

Literally none