Repeating Tasks In Todoist



  • Remove the date, save the task, and re-add the date. Delete the task and create a new task with the same name and date. This has happened on multiple separate recurring tasks that I have and in both cases, the tasks used recurring dates with 'every!' If change those dates to 'every.' The issue seems to go away.
  • Setting up recurring tasks is simple and straightforward, and it’s much easier for me to just pull up my list every day and see what I have to do instead of having to build that list every day. Time is money, after all. The power in Todoist, of course, is the granularity you can use when building your recurring tasks.
  1. Todoist Every
  2. Todoist Multiple Due Dates
Todoist subtasks

In Todoist, you can make sure you never miss a thing by adding due dates and/or times to your tasks. You can even create recurring or repeating due dates like “Send Mom a birthday card every July 19” and “Take out the recycling every other Wednesday”. It took a single google search for me to learn how to create recurring tasks, and the Todoist text parser does an excellent job of scheduling tasks how you intend it to. Creating and managing project is easy and very straightforward. Task repetition, calendar integration - 15/15 points: As noted above, Todoist handle recurrence extremely well.

Please note that in Todoist there are two recurring dates: every and every!. They are similar and the difference is how the next date is computed. For example:

SubtasksRepeating Tasks In Todoist
  • Clean fridge with due date every 3 months starting 10 April
  • Clean fridge with due date every! 3 months starting 10 April

Completing every 3 months starting 10 April will result in a due date 3 months from 10. April.

Completing every! 3 months starting 10 April will result in a due date 3 months from the completion date.

Changing the due date on a todoist reoccurring task without breaking the reoccurrence:

Note little spinner for reoccurring

If a reoccurring task is due, and you want to change the due date on this instance without breaking the reoccurrence, Click on the three dots “…” And schedule

Todoist Every

And then choose a shortcut date or use the date picker, for example, Postpone to tomorrow

Moves the due date it but doesn’t break reoccurrence

Todoist recurring subtasks

Or you can pick a date:

Reoccurrence still stays:

However if you edit the date by clicking in the date text field:

Todoist

Todoist Multiple Due Dates

Now you are changing the “master date”/breaking the reoccurrence

For example using date picker:

Click save:

Note reoccurrence gone

So if you don’t want to break the reoccurrence, only use the … date picker, not the text field.