Recurring tasks

Some work repeats on a schedule — weekly reviews, monthly invoices, quarterly planning. Project Manager lets you mark a task as recurring so it’s visible at a glance as a repeating commitment, with an interval and an optional end date.

Setting a recurrence

1. Open a task (click its row, or right-click → Edit task).
2. Find the Repeat row in the task modal.
3. Click + set recurrence.
4. Pick the interval:
   • Every N — a number between 1 and 365
   • daily / weekly / monthly / yearly
   • Optional Until — a date after which the recurrence ends
5. Save the task.

Examples:

To remove the recurrence, open the task and click the × next to the recurrence row.

Where it shows

A task with a recurrence set gets a small R badge:

• In the table view — next to the title.
• On kanban cards — next to the title in the card header.
• On gantt bars — a tiny repeat icon to the right of the bar.

Hover the badge to confirm — it reads “Recurring.”

What recurrence currently does

Today, recurrence is a marker — it stores the schedule on the task and shows the badge, but it does not automatically create the next occurrence when you complete the task. If you mark a recurring task as done, it stays done until you reset it yourself.

The intended workflow today is:

1. Set the recurrence on the task as a reminder of the cadence.
2. When you complete it, change the status back to todo (or in-progress) and bump the Due date to the next occurrence manually.

Automatic rollover — completion creates the next instance and resets the date — is on the roadmap. The schema (interval, every, endDate) is in place so existing recurring tasks will work with the feature when it ships.

Underlying data

In the task’s frontmatter:

recurrence:
  interval: weekly
  every: 2
  endDate: 2026-12-31

endDate is optional. If omitted, the recurrence has no end. See Data format for the full schema.

Where to go next

• Statuses and priorities — choose the status to reset a completed recurring task to.
• Table view — filter to show only recurring tasks (use the search on the R badge or a tag).
• Data format — the YAML schema for recurrence.

Tips

Tag recurring tasks (e.g. #recurring or #weekly) — until auto-rollover lands, a tag makes it easy to filter to “what’s on a cadence” and bulk-reset their dates at the start of each period.

Use the Until field for time-boxed recurrences (a 6-week onboarding series, a 3-month coaching cadence). Once the end date passes, you can keep or archive the task — the plugin won’t act on the end date itself today.