## Task Recurrence

Tasks that are to be performed regularly can be given a recurrence to occur repeatedly at intervals to suit you. In order to use recurrence effectively, it is important to understand how it works.
How to define recurring tasks
When you create/edit a task with a due date, you have to option to mark it as a recurring task. What this means essentially, is when the current task is complete, the next due date is calculated and the task is set back as "Not Started".
Recurring Frequencies
You can mark a task period to be daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, and you can set this to be x number of days/weeks/etc...
Monthly also has the option to set the 'On The' for the month. This means you can create a task to be done next week, but the following months, it can be on the 1st of the month.
Weekly tasks can be set to occur on specific days of the week. For example, a task can be set to occur every 2 weeks on a Monday and Wednesday of that week.
I have a reminder set as well
If you have a reminder set when the task recurrence is set, then the reminder date will be recalculated based on the offset of the original due date. For example, say you have a task due on the 1st November, and a reminder of 31st October at 18:00, due every week. This will recalculate your due date for 8th November, and the reminder set to 7th November at 18:00.
What do I need to know?
Recurrence only works when using the QuickStatus buttons at the top. You cannot use the status drop down in the task details pane as changing this puts you into edit mode. At this point, the data used to set the recurrence may not match what's being edited (don't forget you can cancel an edit). For example, if you were to change the recurrence frequency, then mark the status as complete, as the task has not been saved, you would create a recurrence using the old recurrence settings. This leads to unexpected and unreliable results. Hence why the only safe point to use recurrence is through the QuickStatus buttons. One side effect of adding recurrence, is once you start editing, the QuickStatus buttons are removed from view. Once editing is finished, you can have them back.