# Create recurring tasks

> Make a task repeat every day, week, month or year, or on set weekdays. Completing it creates the next one, counted from the due date or the day you finish.

Source: https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/recurring-tasks/
Last updated: 2026-11-05

A repeating task creates its next occurrence when you complete it. The finished task stays in your history and stops repeating, so each occurrence is its own task.

## Make a task repeat

- In the new task or edit sheet, open the **+** menu and choose **Repeat**. The side panel of a task has a **Repeat** field too.
- Or type it in the title. Prior reads `every day`, `every weekday`, `every week`, `every month`, `every year`, `every 2 weeks`, `every other day`, `every monday` and `every mon, wed and fri`. It reads the same phrases in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch. See [Create a task](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/create-a-task/).

The menu offers **Doesn't repeat**, **Every day**, **Every weekday (Mon–Fri)**, **Every week** on the due date's weekday, **Every month** on the due date's day, **Every year** on the due date, and **Custom…**. Custom lets you set:

- **Every** a number of days, weeks, months or years, from 1 to 365.
- **On** the weekdays to use, for a weekly rule.
- **Repeat from completion date**, explained below.
- **End date**, after which the task stops repeating.

A repeating task needs a date. If it has none, Prior sets the due date to today, or to the next listed weekday. Repeating tasks show a small repeat chip such as "Daily" or "Every 2 weeks" in lists and on cards.

## Count from the due date or from the day you finish

By default Prior counts from the due date. A task due every Monday stays on Mondays even if you finish it on Thursday. The next date is the first one that is today or later, so a task you left for three weeks does not leave three overdue copies behind. Finishing early does not pull the next date closer.

With **Repeat from completion date**, the next date counts from the day you complete the task. This suits "water the plants every 2 weeks" better than a fixed day. Type `every!` to ask for it in the title, as in `every! 2 weeks`.

## What the next occurrence contains

When you complete the task, Prior creates a new open task. A toast gives its date, like "Next: Mon, Nov 9", and the **Completed** toast keeps its **Undo**.

- It keeps the title, description, priority, project, area, parent, milestone, assignee, people, duration and the same repeat rule. The due time stays.
- It starts as **Todo**, unless the task was in the Inbox or the Backlog, which it keeps.
- The checklist comes back with every item unticked. See [Checklists](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/checklists/).
- A reminder and a planned day move by the same number of days as the due date. See [Reminders](https://priortasks.com/docs/tasks/reminders/).
- The follow-up date and the name of the person you wait on are cleared.

When the next date would fall after the end date, the series ends: the last task completes with no next one.

## Good to know

- Reopening a completed task, or saving one that is already completed, never creates another occurrence. **Undo** on the completion removes the one it created.
- Completing on another device still creates exactly one next occurrence, because the finished task no longer repeats.
- For a monthly task due on the 31st, shorter months use their last day, so January 31 is followed by February 28 and then March 28. Edit the due date to move it back. A yearly task on February 29 falls on February 28 in other years.
- When an assistant completes a repeating task through [MCP](https://priortasks.com/docs/integrations/mcp/), the next date is counted with the UTC date, which can differ by a day near midnight.
- A [habit](https://priortasks.com/docs/habits/create-a-habit/) is different: it is one item with a schedule and a streak, checked off each day, and it does not create new tasks.