Amazing Marvin is a customizable and feature-rich personal task/project manager that includes lots of unique features designed to help with procrastination and overwhelm. You can enable and disable individual features based on your unique needs: Calendar sync, dependencies, deadlines, dashboards etc.
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I used Remember the Milk for years, but they were slow to fix bugs and new features hardly ever appeared. Marvin is, as the name says, Amazing. Very powerful 'smart' lists of tasks, searching, customisation. It does take a while to get to grips with the huge range of features.
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I did for rudimentary tasks and defaulted to 45mins focus / 15mins break time blocks. Recently jumped on the Flowmodoro train which has been helpful doing creative work (https://focusedwork.app has been great for this), since I can keep going until I really need a break and my breaks are a fraction of the time I spend focusing. But yeah Pomodoro is hard to use for anything that I need to focus on for a long period... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
I'm working on a timer app, and is now up to ~$2k/mo! - https://focusedwork.app It's taught me a lot about the non-technical side of building a product. Very fulfilling from a personal growth perspective. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I would suggest Focused Work if you're on a Mac - this is what I use and it will do everything you just described. https://focusedwork.app/. Source: over 1 year ago
Again there are many great free ones out there, but my personal recommendation is definitely this one. It is paid, but the cost is not far off a pint of beer these days and you can customise it however you want (you could think of it as an investment in terms of the value it brings into your life vs the cost). Source: 11 months ago
I have recently realized that there will be no perfect tool you will find just by looking things up. You literally do have to try around w a few apps (or more traditional methods) and see which one you enjoy. It took me a while but I found smth called Amazing Marvin. I love it because it’s very customizable. I think when we try to look for the “perfect” tool, we really are looking for tons of customizability so we... Source: 12 months ago
Amazing Marvin: https://amazingmarvin.com/. I love it. Super steep learning curve, but once you get it, it's so smooth. Source: about 1 year ago
I'm a big fan of Amazing Marvin]. Goals, projects, tasks, habits and a lot more. Extremely powerful smart lists. It's an excellent app, but it does have a learning curve. Source: about 1 year ago
Https://amazingmarvin.com/ has a matrix feature. Source: about 1 year ago
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