Set up a recurring task

The ability to create recurring tasks is one of the perks of being a Nirvana Pro user. You can easily schedule repeating actions so you’ll never forget to accomplish them. Check out the videos and take a look at the play-by-plays below for more details.

Create a recurring task

On Desktop

  1. Open the task and click on the state (Next, Someday, etc.). From the drop-down menu, select Scheduled, followed by Make Repeating.
  2. Select how often you'd like to create copies of the task (based on a cycle counted in days, weeks, months, or years).
  3. Enter the details of how often you want the task to repeat.
  4. Choose when to schedule the next task and when to end the cycle.

On Mobile

  1. Open the Details panel of a task. To the bottom-right of the details, tap the cycle icon .
  2. This will bring up the Repeat panel. At the top, select how often you want to create copies of the action (based on a cycle counted in days, weeks, months, or years).
  3. Enter the details of how often you want the task to repeat.
  4. Choose when to schedule the next task and when to end the cycle.

You can choose either to stop here or to create a due date for each copy.

Create copies with due dates

On Desktop

  1. Check Each copy has a due date.
  2. Choose how far in advance of the scheduled dates copies should appear in the Focus list.

On Mobile

  1. Under Create Copies with due dates, tap With due dates.
  2. Choose how far in advance of the scheduled dates copies should appear in the Focus list.

The scheduled dates will now be set as the due dates.

Pause or delete a cycle before its end date

  • To temporarily pause a recurring task cycle, click the cycle icon  on the far-left of the task to see the pause symbol . Click the icon again to restart the cycle. Pausing and restarting a recurring task cycle
  • If you want to permanently delete a recurring task cycle before its end date, first pause it, then move it to the Trash.

Now you’re a recurring tasks expert!