Repeating tasks

A repeating task is one task that comes back on its days. You tick it one day at a time. Bloomingo keeps no count of days in a row and never marks a day as not done.

Make a task repeat

1. Open the task in the side panel: double-click it, or choose Open in its options.
2. Choose its Repeat field.
3. Choose a rule.

The choices are named for the task’s day, or for today when it is on no day:

• Doesn’t repeat
• Every day
• Every weekday: Monday to Friday, or Sunday to Thursday where the weekend is Friday and Saturday.
• Every week on Friday
• Every month on the 9th
• Every year on 9 October
• Custom, for any other rule.

A task drawn on the timeline can take the same rules, but for Custom. See The day’s timeline.

Make a custom repeat

Custom opens the Repeat card under the field. Each change applies at once. Done, EscEsc or a click outside closes it.

At its top, choose how it repeats:

• On a schedule: Every, a number from 1 to 99, and day, week, month or year.
  • For weeks, On shows the seven days as buttons, starting on the day your week starts. Choose one or more.
  • For months, On offers the date, “On the 9th”, or the weekday, “On the second Friday” (“On the last Friday” in a month’s last week).
• After it’s done: a number, then “days after it’s done”. The next one comes that many days after you tick it, which suits chores.

Then choose when it Ends:

• Never
• On a date, then the date. A date before the task’s day isn’t taken, and the card says “Pick a date after the start.”
• After, a number, then “times”.

The field then shows the rule as one phrase, such as “Every 2 weeks on Monday and Thursday”, “3 days after it’s done” or “Every week on Monday, 5 times”.

A rule of every 2 weeks or more counts its weeks from Week starts on in Settings, as it was when you set the rule. Changing that setting later doesn’t move its days.

Where a repeating task shows

• It lives in the list where you made it, and its row shows its rule with the repeat icon.
• On each of its days, it also shows at the end of that day’s My tasks, unless a list on that day already holds it.
• With a time, it shows on each of its days’ timelines, and alerts on each when you asked for an alert.
• Ticked on a day, it is done for that day, in its own list too, and open again on its next day.
• In its own list on another board, its check stands for today when today is one of its days, or else for its next day.

Its words are the same everywhere. To change them, open it in the side panel.

Skip or move one day

Right-click the task at the end of My tasks for its options:

• Open
• Skip this day takes that day’s repeat away. You’ll see “Skipped Monday.” with Undo.
• Move this one to opens the month, and moves that day’s repeat to the day you choose: “Moved to Friday, 9 October.” with Undo.

A repeating task card has the same options in its menu. On the timeline, a repeating task’s block has Skip this day in its options, and so does the side panel’s ⋯ when you opened the task from that day. Its other days don’t change.

A day’s repeat stays at the end of My tasks and can’t be dragged within it. Dragged onto the timeline, it gives the task that time from that day on.

Change or stop a repeat

• A new rule applies from today. The days before keep what they showed.
• A new time or length applies from the day you change it: the block’s day on the timeline, or the day the side panel shows the task for.
• Doesn’t repeat ends the rule. The days it gave before keep what they showed. A rule that hasn’t begun yet goes altogether.

Once its rule has ended, by Doesn’t repeat or its own end, the task is an ordinary task again. It shows only in its own list and alerts at its time.

A repeating day you didn’t get to

A repeating task left open on one of its days is offered with yesterday’s unfinished tasks only until its next day comes. An “every day” task never is, because today has its own. See Yesterday’s unfinished tasks.