1. Recurring Projects Todoist
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4. Recurring Todoist

Using recurring and repeating tasks in Todoist is a great way to save a lot of time and to stay on top of all of your tasks that occur regularly, or at least more than once.

When setting up a task in Todoist, to make it recurring you fill out the task information as you normally would, but when it comes to the time / date field you make some small changes.

For example, if you want a daily reminder you would type in “every day” in the date field and it would become recurring every day (remember – every day is ever day, including weekends!). If you only want weekdays you would type in “every weekday”.

I use Integromat to automatically reset subtasks to uncompleted when the main recurring task is completed, but the Todoist API does not make this easy since you can't look up children of a specific task. I have enough of these checklists to make it worth automating. 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. With this real-time, two-way sync between Todoist and Google Calendar, you’ll be able to visualize, organize, and prioritize your tasks from inside your calendar. Any changes you make in Google Calendar will instantly be reflected back in Todoist and vice versa.

There’s lots of date formatting options that gives repeating tasks a lot of flexibility – you can find more of them here on the Todoist date formatting guide.

Recurring due dates in Todoist. The only way to set recurring due dates in Todoist is by using natural language. I’m tempted to say that your imagination is the limit but to make it easy to get started, I have made some tables below. Relative numbers. The beauty of Todoist is its simplicity. Create your to-do list, add subtasks, create recurring tasks, and schedule things to do in the future. Todoist will automatically sync your list to all your devices, so you won’t have any excuse for not completing a task.

This is also important to know about if you are using IFTTT and Todoist – you’ll need to make sure you have your date formatting correct or you may run into some real issues.

(You can find out more about integrating IFTTT and Todoist to automate some really handy processes here: IFTTT & Todoist Gmail Automation Article)

Recurring Projects Todoist

Another area where date formatting for recurring tasks can come in handy is setting start and end dates.

As an example, let’s say you had a project with a new task that came up, but you only need reminders through the end of the week. If today was March 23 and Friday was March 25, you would type in “every day ending March 25”. You can also do this for starting dates to set up a recurring task in the future!

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