Day Planning

Plan your perfect day

Pull in tasks, group your tasks, lay them out how you like, see your capacity at a glance, and get guidane on how to plan a great day.

Capacity Awareness

Know when you're overplanning

Add time estimates to your tasks and watch the capacity bar fill up. Marvin starts with realistic baselines, then learns your personal averages over time. See when you've planned more than you can realistically finish based on your actual patterns.

  • Time estimates on every task
  • Visual capacity indicator
  • Total time for day and sections
  • Reduce the risk of overcommitting
Today's Capacity6h 30m planned
0hTypical capacity8h
Morning2h 30m
  • Deep work session
  • Team standup
Afternoon3h 15m
  • Client calls
  • Review PRs
  • Write docs
Evening45m
  • Email cleanup
  • Plan tomorrow

Flexible Sections

Organize your day your way

Group tasks by morning, afternoon and evening, Essential/Bonus sections, categories or create your own sections. See time totals for each section.

  • Morning / Afternoon / Evening
  • Essential vs Bonus sections
  • Group by category or project
  • Custom sections
  • Time totals per section

Multiple Views

See your day however you like

Some people want a simple list. Others prefer seeing their day laid out with times. Choose the view that matches how your brain works.

Simple List

Clean task list with optional groupings. Vertical or horizontal layout.

Agenda View

See your tasks laid out like a calendar with time slots.

Full Calendar

Complete calendar view for scheduling and time blocking.

Day Progress

See how your day is going

An optional progress bar at the top of your day shows how much you've completed. A marker shows where you should be based on the time of day so you know if you're ahead, behind, or right on track.

  • Visual progress indicator
  • "Where you should be" marker
  • Use time estimates for tasks for more accuracy
  • Satisfying as it fills up
Day Progress4 of 7 tasks
Now

Works automatically

Less manual work, more getting things done. Marvin handles the busywork so you can focus on actually doing your tasks.

Auto-schedule due items

Tasks due soon get automatically added to upcoming days.

Automatic rollover

Unfinished tasks roll to the next day (optional). Nothing gets lost.

Calendar sync

See Calendar events right alongside your tasks.

Recurring tasks

Daily routines appear automatically each day.

Monday, January 20

Feeling focused today. Want to finish the proposal and make progress on the design review...

Day Notes

Journal alongside your tasks

Every day has a rich text note attached. Use it for journaling, intentions, reflections, or whatever helps you. Create templates with prompts that appear automatically each day.

  • Rich text editor
  • Note templates with prompts
  • Daily journaling built-in
  • Optional (like most features in Marvin)

Daily Stats

See where your time went

At the end of each day, see exactly how you spent your time. A bar graph shows when you were working throughout the day, and category breakdowns show what type of work you did.

  • Time tracked by category
  • Hourly activity bar graph
  • Patterns over time
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