Recurring Tasks

Recurring tasks auto-generate on a schedule you define. Use them for anything that repeats — weekly status updates, monthly invoicing reviews, daily standups, quarterly retros.

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Making a Task Recurring

1. Open or create a task
2. Click the Repeat toggle in the right-hand details panel
3. Pick a schedule:

4. Optionally set an end date — after which the task stops repeating
5. Save

What Gets Copied

Each time the recurrence fires, Workestra creates a new task that inherits from the original:

• Title
• Description
• Assignee
• Priority
• Labels
• Cycle (if the cycle is still active)
• Estimate
• Custom field values

Comments, attachments, and time logs are not copied — each recurrence is a fresh task.

Custom Schedules (RRULE)

The "Custom" option uses the iCalendar RRULE standard. Examples:

• Every other Monday: FREQ=WEEKLY;INTERVAL=2;BYDAY=MO
• First Friday of each month: FREQ=MONTHLY;BYDAY=1FR
• Every weekday except Wednesday: FREQ=WEEKLY;BYDAY=MO,TU,TH,FR

If you're not comfortable writing RRULE by hand, the preset picker covers most cases.

Managing Recurrence

From a recurring task, you can:

• Edit schedule — change cadence or end date (applies to future instances only)
• Skip next — skip a single upcoming instance
• Stop recurrence — no more instances will be created; already-generated tasks are untouched
• Detach — convert a generated instance into a one-off task so edits to it don't affect the schedule

Where Recurring Tasks Show Up

Each generated instance behaves exactly like a regular task — it appears in the list, board, cycle (if applicable), assignee's "Today," and so on. A small repeat icon on the task card indicates it came from a recurrence.

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Next Steps

• Tasks — everything else a task can do
• Automations — alternative for event-driven (not schedule-driven) actions
• Cycles — recurring tasks can auto-assign to active cycles