Product Update

Recurring Tasks: Set It Once, Never Forget Again

Weekly reports. Monthly invoicing. Daily standups. Some work happens on a schedule. Now TRCR handles the schedule for you — set a task to repeat and the next one shows up automatically.

Apr 1, 2026 · 5 min read

Every team has tasks that come back like clockwork. Send the client update on Friday. Reconcile timesheets at the end of the month. Review pull requests every morning. Until now, you had two options: remember to create those tasks yourself, or forget and scramble.

Recurring tasks eliminate that overhead. Define when a task should repeat, and TRCR takes care of the rest. The moment you complete a recurring task, the next one appears in your list — with the right due date, the same assignees, and all the details carried over.

How to Set Up a Recurring Task

Open any task and look for the recurrence option next to the due date. Click it and a picker appears with everything you need:

  1. Choose a schedule. Pick from seven built-in options: daily, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly, or create a fully custom interval.
  2. Pick specific days. For weekly or bi-weekly schedules, select which days of the week the task should repeat — Monday and Wednesday, every Friday, or any combination that fits your workflow.
  3. Set an end condition (optional). Let the task repeat forever, choose a specific end date, or cap it at a number of occurrences — up to 1,000.

That's it. No save button to press — your recurrence rule takes effect immediately. A small repeat icon appears on the task so you always know which tasks are recurring.

Seven Ways to Repeat

TRCR gives you the flexibility to match nearly any real-world schedule:

  • Daily — perfect for standups, daily check-ins, or end-of-day reports
  • Weekly — choose specific days, like every Monday and Thursday for team syncs
  • Bi-weekly — great for sprint retrospectives or payroll tasks
  • Monthly — invoicing, reporting, or subscription renewals on a specific day
  • Quarterly — OKR reviews, board reports, or compliance checks
  • Yearly — annual reviews, license renewals, or budget planning
  • Custom — set any interval you want, like every 3 days or every 6 weeks

What Happens When You Complete a Recurring Task

This is where the magic is. When you mark a recurring task as done, TRCR doesn't just check it off. It automatically creates the next occurrence — a fresh task with the correct due date calculated from your schedule, carrying over the same title, description, assignees, and recurrence rule.

The completed task stays in your history so you have a full record of every occurrence. The new task appears in your list ready for the next cycle. You never have to think about creating it.

If you're away and a recurring task falls overdue, TRCR catches up automatically. A background process checks every hour and creates any missing instances so nothing slips through the cracks.

Use Cases Your Team Will Love

Freelancers & Agencies

Set “Send weekly status update” to repeat every Friday. Set “Invoice client” to repeat monthly on the 1st. No more calendar reminders or sticky notes — the task is already there when the day arrives.

Engineering Teams

Sprint planning every two weeks. Dependency audit every quarter. Security review every month. Each one becomes a recurring task with a clear owner, automatically created and ready for the next cycle.

Operations & Finance

Payroll processing bi-weekly. Monthly reconciliation. Annual compliance filings. Build your operational cadence into TRCR and let the system keep you on track.

Staying in Control

Recurring tasks are powerful, but you're always in control:

  • Edit anytime. Change the schedule, switch days, adjust the interval — updates take effect immediately.
  • Stop anytime. Click the clear button on the recurrence picker and the task stops repeating. Existing completed occurrences stay in your history.
  • Cap the count. Set a maximum number of occurrences if the task only needs to repeat a specific number of times — like a 12-week onboarding checklist.
  • Set an end date. Running a campaign through June? Set the recurrence to end on June 30 and it stops automatically.

Timezone-Aware by Default

Recurring tasks respect your timezone. If you set a task to repeat weekly on Monday and you're in Berlin, the next occurrence lands on Monday in Berlin — not UTC midnight, not your server's clock. This matters when your team spans multiple time zones and everyone needs to see the right date.

Try it now: Open any task in TRCR and click the recurrence option next to the due date. Choose a schedule and you're set — the next task will create itself. Available on all plans.

What's Next

Recurring tasks lay the groundwork for automation in TRCR. We're exploring recurring time entries, automated status transitions, and smart suggestions based on your team's patterns. This is just the beginning of work that manages itself.