Set a recurring due date

There are so many options when it comes to creating a recurring due date that it can become a bit overwhelming, so let's start out with some basic examples:

You can use natural language to schedule a recurring task with a start and end date:

You can create a recurring task that repeats at regular intervals from either the original task date or from the task's completed date by using every or every!, respectively. Here's how:

• Every: Completing a task that has a due date of every 3 months will set the task’s due date to 3 months from the task's original date. So if you created a task on January 10th with a due date of every 3 months, it will recur on Jan 10, Apr 10, July 10, etc regardless of when you complete the task. 
• Every!: When you complete a task with a due date of every! 3 months, it will set the next due date to 3 months after the day you completed the task. So if you completed the task on January 20th, the next occurrence of the task will be April 20th. 

Here are some examples of recurring due dates that use every or every!:

Tasks that need to be done on holidays can be specified using these respective keywords:

When setting your recurring due date, there are a few tricks to get Todoist to understand you properly:

Todoist prefers the starting date at the end

For example, every 14 days starting 1 Nov 7am will not correctly recognize the time. Instead, use every 14 days 7am starting 1 Nov.

Todoist prefers the time after the first date

If you try setting a due date of 7am every other Wednesday starting 1 Nov, Todoist will not properly recognize the recurring element of the task. Instead, use every other Wednesday 7am starting 1 Nov.

No. If you schedule your recurring task for every! day or every day, your task will set its next due date based on the date you complete the task. This means that if your task was due yesterday and you complete it today, the task will not move to today. It will instead move to tomorrow's date.

Yes, but only if you're adding due dates with the same pattern. For example, every Monday, Tuesday.

You can't add recurring due dates using more than one every or with a different recurring pattern. For example, every Monday every 1 hour won't work.

It’s not possible to see all upcoming recurrences of a task in Todoist. This is because a recurring task is a single task with a shifting due date, rather than multiple separate tasks.

For example, if you create a task, Clean the house, and set the due date to monthly on the 28th, the task will be scheduled for the 28th of this month. When the task is completed, the due date is shifted to the next recurring date - in this case, the 28th of the next month.

Unfortunately, you can't see completed recurring tasks in your completed task list, however, they can be viewed in your activity log.

Unfortunately, you can’t uncomplete a recurring task that has been completed.

There is one exception. Right after completing a single instance of a recurring task, you can undo the completion using the undo option at the bottom of Todoist. The recurring task’s date will shift back to whatever it was before you completed it.

Please note that the option to undo a completed task will only last a few seconds.

You can do this by scheduling the task for multiple days in a week and including a specific end date, too.

For example, if you want to schedule a task for this Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, you can simply set the due date to every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday ending Saturday. The task won't recur anymore after Saturday.

To postpone a recurring task, use the task scheduler by right-clicking (Web, Windows, macOS) or swiping left (iOS, Android) and pick a new date from there.

Yes, you can! Here's how.

You can view all the recurring tasks on your account by either searching recurring or using recurring as a filter query.