Using recurring and repeating tasks in Todoist is a great way to save a lot of time and to stay on top of all of your tasks that occur regularly, or at least more than once.
When setting up a task in Todoist, to make it recurring you fill out the task information as you normally would, but when it comes to the time / date field you make some small changes.
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For example, if you want a daily reminder you would type in “every day” in the date field and it would become recurring every day (remember – every day is ever day, including weekends!). If you only want weekdays you would type in “every weekday”.
There’s lots of date formatting options that gives repeating tasks a lot of flexibility – you can find more of them here on the Todoist date formatting guide.
This is also important to know about if you are using IFTTT and Todoist – you’ll need to make sure you have your date formatting correct or you may run into some real issues.
(You can find out more about integrating IFTTT and Todoist to automate some really handy processes here: IFTTT & Todoist Gmail Automation Article)
Another area where date formatting for recurring tasks can come in handy is setting start and end dates.
As an example, let’s say you had a project with a new task that came up, but you only need reminders through the end of the week. If today was March 23 and Friday was March 25, you would type in “every day ending March 25”. You can also do this for starting dates to set up a recurring task in the future!
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Recently I’ve become a huge fan of Todoist.
While I was building LifeHQ, a semi-direct competitor to Todoist, I had researched it, gave it a few spins then left it alone.
But since I started focusing on FocusHub, Todoist stopped being a competitor and became my major todo app.
I am using it to balance between developing FocusHub, writing on this blog and working on my freelance projects.
They also run a great blog called Ambition & Balance.
To do or Not To do
I’ve been debating with myself for a while about wether to add tasks and todo lists to FocusHub. But for now I decided against it, so I’m going to add a few integrations. Starting with Todoist.
Todoist is the best app on the market for managing your todos, so it makes sense to be the first integration.
Todoist Integration
There is no point to look at your tasks if you’re not going to work on them, so I added the Todoist integration on our Focus Sessions page, you will see it once you create a Focus session.
While you are doing your focused work, you can look to your tasks and cross them out when you complete them, easy peasy.
Connect Todoist
Clicking Connect Todoist will take you to your Profile page where you can set your Todoist api token.
When you click save you’ll be redirected to your previous work session.
It only synchronizes your tasks for today, which is enough for now.
The tasks will be sorted by priority and you will notice that Priority 1 tasks have red underline, Priority 2 have yellow and Priority 3 have blue underline.
Complete tasks
Todoist Daily Tasks
Just crossing of your tasks will not automatically sync them to your Todoist app because often times we click the wrong task.
So once you complete one task, a new sync button will appear at the bottom that does the uploads your completed tasks to Todoist and removes them from Focushub.
After you sync the button and the completed tasks will dissapear.
I am using this every day, I hope you find it useful.
You can join FocusHub and upgrade your productivity here.
PS: Quick announcement, Social habits are coming soon allowing you to interact together with people with similar productive interests as yourself.
Repeating Tasks Todoist
Until next time,
Todoist Daily Tasks
Stay Productive.