Lists

Creating a list

Give it a name, then choose whether it holds tasks or notes. That choice sets what the list does, so pick deliberately: a task list holds tickable items, a notes list holds rich text.

A list can also have a short description, which shows under its name on the Lists screen. Useful where the name alone is ambiguous a year later.

Icons and colours

Every list can have an icon and a colour. This looks cosmetic and is not: colour is how you pick a list out of a sidebar of twenty, and it is what makes widgets readable at a glance.

The colour carries through to the list’s own screen, so an open list is recognisable before you have read the title. Icons and colours match between iOS and the web, so a list looks the same wherever you open it.

Ordering and grouping

Lists keep the order you put them in, and that order syncs across your devices. Drag to reorder.

Once there are enough of them to scroll, put them in folders. See List groups.

Exporting a list

Generate PDF on the list menu produces a printable copy of the list.

Handy for the cases where a phone is the wrong tool: a packing list on paper, a checklist for someone who does not use Marvelist, or a record of what a list said on a given day.

Adding a location

A list can have a location, chosen on a map. Useful for a list tied to a place: a shop, a venue, somewhere you are travelling to.

Archiving

Archiving takes a list out of your sidebar without deleting anything. Archived lists can be restored or deleted permanently later. See Archiving and tidying up.

Deleting

Deleting a list removes it and everything in it. If the list is shared, it goes for everyone.

If you might want it later, archive it instead. Archiving is reversible and deleting is not.

Content protection

Turn on Content protection in a list’s settings and Marvelist refuses to delete anything from it. That covers:

• deleting a task or a note from the list
• Tidy Up, including when run from a Siri shortcut
• deleting the list itself

Each refusal says content protection is the reason, so it is clear you have hit a guard rather than a bug. To delete a protected list, turn the setting off first.

Worth turning on for a list that is a record rather than a workload, where the completed items are the point, and for anything shared with people you would rather could not clear it out.

Sharing

Any list can be shared with other people, who can then add and complete tasks alongside you. See Sharing a list.