Make a task repeat
Set a chore to come back daily, weekly, every few weeks or on set days — and give it a start and stop date if it only runs for a while.
Where to find it
Task editor → Repeat
Most household work is not a one-off. A repeating task is created once and then appears when it is due, rather than being retyped every week.
- Open the task, or start a new one.
- Under When, turn on Repeat.
- Choose how often — daily, weekly, monthly, or every N days or weeks for the awkward ones like bins on alternate Wednesdays.
Start and stop dates
A repeat can be given a start date and a Stops after date, picked from the same date tiles as everything else. On a new task the date above the repeat is where it starts. This is for the jobs that only exist for part of the year: swimming kit through the summer term, gritting the path in winter, watering someone’s plants for a fortnight.
The repeat counts intervals from the start date, so “every three weeks from the 6th” means the 6th, the 27th, and so on — not every third week of the calendar.
Editing and deleting
Editing a repeating task changes it from now on. The form says so, and the ones already done keep what they were.
Deleting one asks first. Just this one drops that copy and leaves the repeat in place, so the chore comes back on its next day. All of these removes the repeat itself, so nothing comes back: it counts what will go first, and offers to take other people’s copies of the same chore too.
A note on fairness
Repeats are where household work quietly accumulates on one person. It is worth looking down the list occasionally and asking who ends up with all the weekly ones — the time breakdown makes that visible.
Updated 29 September 2026. Something here wrong or missing? Tell us — we'd rather fix the page than answer it twice.
