Repeat tasks and use saved routines

Use Repeat for task-sized work that should create a fresh occurrence. Free supports Daily and Weekdays. Despite its name, Weekdays is a seven-day picker, so Saturday and Sunday are available too. Plus adds intervals, a chosen day of the month, yearly dates, and completion-relative schedules such as seven days after the previous occurrence is finished. For monthly and yearly repeats, a date that does not exist in a shorter month uses that month's last day.

On Free, See Plus options opens Settings → Plan & billing inside Dayprints.

Dayprints keeps these choices visual and explicit; the Dayprints vs Todoist comparison explains how that differs from broader natural-language recurrence and project tools.

Fixed recurrence follows the calendar. Completion-relative recurrence advances only after the current occurrence is completed; undoing that completion rewinds the advance only when no later occurrence has been stored. Each occurrence remains an ordinary task with its own date, completion, history, Momentum, and place in the daily plan.

What each new occurrence carries

A new occurrence keeps the title, notes, priority, estimate, scheduled time, and reminder captured when you create the repeat. Its wall-clock time stays fixed across daylight-saving changes in the repeat's saved timezone. If an occurrence is added after its reminder time has already passed, that reminder is skipped rather than sent late.

Repeats appear only on the day they fall. Days you miss are not added later, and nothing accumulates while you are away.

Changing or archiving a repeat

Editing the task in front of you changes only that occurrence by default. Check Apply to all future repeats to update the repeat rule and carry its title, notes, priority, and estimate into future occurrences, including future occurrences already added. Scheduled-time and reminder edits always remain on the occurrence you are editing; those two values are captured for the series only when you first create the repeat.

For a completion-relative repeat, completing its current occurrence advances the repeat. Undo rewinds that advance only when no later occurrence has been stored, and editing an older occurrence cannot move the repeat behind a later one.

Archiving an occurrence means "not this one", not "never again", and cancels that occurrence's reminder. A fixed-calendar repeat continues on its later scheduled dates. A completion-relative repeat advances when its current occurrence is archived; that archived occurrence can be restored only before the repeat moves past it.

A task that no longer repeats stops being labelled Repeats.

A saved routine is different from recurrence. It is a reusable ordered set of task templates that you apply manually—for example, a shutdown sequence or study setup. Applying a routine creates ordinary tasks for the selected day and respects the normal active-task limit. On Saved routines, choose Today or any day up to two years ahead. Past days are not offered because Dayprints does not add tasks to a day that has already happened. Tasks created for a future day count toward your active-task limit immediately because they are real tasks as soon as they are created.

After you apply a routine, you can undo that application for the rest of that local day, until midnight in the timezone where you applied it. The undo window ends with the day you applied the routine, not the day you applied it to. Undo removes only the tasks it created that are still untouched. It keeps any task you have since completed, edited, archived, rescheduled, snoozed, used in a Session, or attached a reminder to, and tells you how many were kept. A repeated tap on the same application does not create duplicates. If you choose to apply the routine again, it creates another set as expected.

Every account starts with two saved routines: Morning start and Weekly reset. You can edit, reorder, apply, or replace them like any other saved routine, and the third Free slot is left open for one of your own.

On Today, saved routines stay below Your Top 3. With 0–2 planned tasks, routine chips are visible; with 3 or more, the section collapses to a single line that still opens saved routines. The routine chips there are unchanged: one tap adds the routine to Today. Its position does not change — only the chips expand or collapse.

Free can keep up to three routines. Plus can keep up to 25. Any saved routine can be reordered or revised before its next application. A routine limit's See Plus action opens Settings → Plan & billing inside Dayprints.

Use a habit when continuity matters, a recurring task when every occurrence needs its own completion record, and a routine when you want to choose when a familiar group of tasks is added.