# Repeats

> Make a task come back every day, every other Monday, on the 2nd Tuesday or counted from when you finish it. End a series on a date or after a number of times.

Source: https://todocity.app/docs/repeats

A repeating task comes back by itself. As soon as you finish one, the next one appears on its next day.

## Pick a repeat

Open a task and click the repeat button, just after priority. Then pick one of the presets:

- **Every day**
- **Every weekday** (Monday to Friday)
- **Every week**
- **Every 2 weeks**
- **Every month**
- **Every year**

Repeating tasks have a small repeat icon on their line.

You can also type the repeat when you add the task, like “water the plants every monday”. See [Dates and times](https://todocity.app/docs/dates-and-times#repeats).

![Adding the task “Book club the 2nd tuesday of every month”, read as Monthly, 2nd Tue](https://todocity.app/docs/img/repeat-typed.webp "A repeat, typed in plain words.")

## Custom repeats

For anything else, click **Custom…**.

![The custom repeat editor: every 2 weeks, on Monday and Wednesday, ending after 6 times, with the next dates listed](https://todocity.app/docs/img/repeat-custom.webp "A custom repeat, with the next days shown before you save.")

| Setting | Choices |
| --- | --- |
| **Every** | A number of days, weeks, months or years, like every 3 days or every 2 weeks |
| **On** | For weeks, which weekdays, like Monday and Wednesday |
| **The** | For months, a weekday like the 2nd Tuesday, or **The last day** |
| **Next one** | **On schedule**, or **After I finish** to count from the day you finish it |
| **Ends** | **Never**, on a date, or after a number of times |

Underneath, TodoCity lists the next few days it will land on, for example “5 more times, last one Wed, Dec 2.” Click **Done** to save.

### After I finish

With **After I finish**, the next one is counted from the day you actually finish the task, rather than the day it was planned for. “Every 2 weeks, after I finish” works well for things like watering plants or getting a haircut.

## Deadlines end a series

If a repeating task has a deadline, the series stops at that deadline. The repeat editor tells you, with something like “Ends by the deadline, Dec 18.”

## Skip, pause or stop

The repeat button's menu gives you these options:

- **Skip next** jumps over the next one without finishing it.
- **Pause** puts the series in Someday, with no reminders, until you click **Resume**.
- **Stop** keeps the task but stops it repeating.
- **Edit** lets you change the repeat.

If a series ends after a set number of times, skipping one still counts towards that number.

## Move one day, or the whole series

When you move a repeating task to another day, TodoCity asks whether to move **This one** or **All of them**.

## Repeats from Todoist and Things 3

Daily, weekday, weekly, every-2-weeks, monthly and yearly repeats come over as the same repeat. Custom repeats come over once, with a note in the task so you can set up a repeat in TodoCity. See [Todoist](https://todocity.app/docs/connectors/todoist) and [Things 3](https://todocity.app/docs/connectors/things).