Recurring tasks

Recurring tasks repeat from a scheduled When date.

Use recurrence for work that comes back on a predictable rhythm, such as weekly reviews, monthly reports, daily routines, or yearly renewals.

Add recurrence

Open an expanded task or task detail window and use the Recurrence control.

Recurrence requires a When date. If the task does not have one, Pinwork asks you to add a When date first.

Quick recurrence options include:

Daily
Weekdays
Weekly
Monthly
Yearly

Custom recurrence

Custom recurrence can use daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly intervals.

Examples of supported patterns include:

every day
every weekday
every week
every 2 weeks
every month
every year
weekday-specific weekly recurrence

Custom rules can also have an end condition.

End recurrence

A recurring task can repeat:

forever
until a specific date
for a limited number of occurrences

If a recurrence rule reaches its end date or count, completing the current task does not create another occurrence.

Preview future occurrences

Today and Upcoming can show future recurring occurrences before those tasks are created. A preview uses the recurrence icon and is labeled Preview.

Open a preview to inspect its planned When date, Deadline, estimate, project, and tags. The preview is read-only, so it cannot be completed, edited, deferred, or deleted.

Today shows previews for the selected current or future day. Upcoming shows the first three previews from each series in its forecast. If a series has more, choose the more occurrences row to open its read-only schedule.

Complete a recurring task

When you complete a recurring task, Pinwork marks the current task complete.

If the recurrence rule allows another occurrence, Pinwork creates the next task.

Complete the current recurring task. Pinwork creates the next real occurrence and places it under Tomorrow.

The next occurrence keeps useful context, including:

title
notes
estimate
project
tags
deadline offset
recurrence metadata
checklist text

Checklist items are reset to unchecked on the next occurrence.

Skip this occurrence

Use Skip This Occurrence when you want to move the recurring task to the next scheduled date without marking the current occurrence complete.

Skipping:

advances the same task to the next recurrence date
preserves explicit time
shifts Deadline by the same offset from When when a Deadline exists
clears rollover state
clears snooze state
resets checklist items to unchecked
consumes count-limited recurrence like completion

Skip does not create an archived completed instance.

Deadline offsets

When a recurring task has both When and Deadline, Pinwork preserves the offset between them for the next occurrence where applicable.

Example:

When: Monday
Deadline: Friday

If the next occurrence moves When to the following Monday, the Deadline can move by the same offset to the following Friday.

Removing schedule clears recurrence

If you remove the task’s When date, Pinwork also clears recurrence.

This happens because a recurrence rule needs a When date to calculate the next occurrence.

Undo support

Normal recurring task completion is undoable from the task list, including the generated next occurrence when one is created.

Skipping an occurrence is recorded as a defer-like undo action with the previous task snapshot.

Undo availability can depend on the surface where the action was triggered.

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