<![CDATA[Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks?]]>Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in tasks?

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/topic/ff476c21-8277-4efc-a6fc-f313a5a352f9/is-there-a-way-to-set-recurring-tasks-daily-every-wednesday-etc-in-nextcloud-tasksRSS for NodeWed, 03 Jun 2026 10:12:15 GMTTue, 20 Jan 2026 13:19:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sun, 31 May 2026 14:35:55 GMT]]>@ljrk @afewbugs I was trying to de-Google, and I was most thinking about Gmail, but the calendar turned out to be much more challenging, particularly because I'd got used to Tasks being associated with the calendar. I found out I wasn't alone in missing that. My new email service also offered calendars through CalDAV, and I started to dig into the options, and it all got terribly confusing. Just connecting to basic calendars was confusing enough, especially with Android. Then I started looking into Journals and Tasks, and it looks like CalDAV specifically supports them, but each client involved implemented Tasks very differently, and I never found a satisfactory solution.

I was also apprehensive about working through this with my partner, who relies on calendar reminders quite a lot, and we've had uncomfortable disagreements about how to organize shared calendars in the past, though I think we were both aware of that history and more patient with each other about it.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/foolishowl/statuses/116669687737880321https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/foolishowl/statuses/116669687737880321Sun, 31 May 2026 14:35:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sun, 31 May 2026 11:32:10 GMT]]>@afewbugs since this thread just popped up in my timeline again: I recently came across this relevant song:

https://youtu.be/PS9Bc_GQBEs

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116668965248833763https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://chaos.social/users/slothrop/statuses/116668965248833763Sun, 31 May 2026 11:32:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sun, 31 May 2026 11:02:43 GMT]]>@afewbugs Yeah, nobody is good at multitasking. The brain doesn't support multitasking, so there is nothing "natural" about it. One can only give the illusion of multitasking. Maybe that's one of those witchcraft skills some women have 😉

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AimeeMaroux/statuses/116668849445313522https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodon.social/users/AimeeMaroux/statuses/116668849445313522Sun, 31 May 2026 11:02:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sun, 31 May 2026 10:37:22 GMT]]>@afewbugs @ljrk I tried Things years ago, but I just drowned in undone stuff

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://graz.social/users/twobiscuits/statuses/116668749774259385https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://graz.social/users/twobiscuits/statuses/116668749774259385Sun, 31 May 2026 10:37:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sun, 31 May 2026 10:34:33 GMT]]>@afewbugs I do the recurring tasks but I'm not sure I could do them on a schedule. For example: Yesterday I bought bin bags and tipped the stuff out of the bins into them and put them by the door. If I had a task telling me to bring down the rubbish on Saturday I wouldn't have completed it. I'm having a nap now and then I'll do them!

After that I may write a to do list in my paper diary and see how much of it I can get done today. It's never everything. I don't think I'm too male for this but probably too old and too Irish. The "ah fuck it, it can wait" is strong with me 🙃

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://graz.social/users/twobiscuits/statuses/116668738671088906https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://graz.social/users/twobiscuits/statuses/116668738671088906Sun, 31 May 2026 10:34:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sun, 31 May 2026 10:19:11 GMT]]>@scroeser that's a great rule!

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116668678232697495https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/116668678232697495Sun, 31 May 2026 10:19:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sun, 31 May 2026 10:18:10 GMT]]>@afewbugs I did love that one local permaculture space I used to go to has a role that women weren't allowed to do dishes, to head off this problem.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/scroeser/statuses/116668674253737239https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://kolektiva.social/users/scroeser/statuses/116668674253737239Sun, 31 May 2026 10:18:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:31:31 GMT]]>@afewbugs I was just sharing what works for me.
I didn't suggest you should do the same.
✌️

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mandarvaze/statuses/115949613303467867https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mandarvaze/statuses/115949613303467867Sat, 24 Jan 2026 10:31:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:11:29 GMT]]>@mandarvaze I'm glad phone alarms work for you, but respectfully, responding to a complaint about a task manager not working for the tasks I need it for by suggesting I don't use a task manager isn't terribly helpful to me

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/115949062670922108https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/115949062670922108Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:11:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:34:55 GMT]]>@afewbugs Got it.

For non-daily chores, I use alarm on my phone. If it is every week at specific time, alarm if enough.

For 1st of the month/quarter, I do use recurring task.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mandarvaze/statuses/115948918894253648https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://indieweb.social/users/mandarvaze/statuses/115948918894253648Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:34:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:51:38 GMT]]>@paavi @worik @ljrk @afewbugs I didn't see 'earlier'.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115945681614007353https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115945681614007353Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:51:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:48:04 GMT]]>@woo @worik @ljrk @afewbugs People doing houselhold chores as described earlier often are within yelling distance from each other and there are no single solutions that solve all the needs all the time.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/paavi/statuses/115944723861582171https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://mastodontti.fi/users/paavi/statuses/115944723861582171Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:48:04 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:41:06 GMT]]>@paavi @worik @ljrk @afewbugs Yes, if 'co-located', or "in the same place" to normal people :-). An ex-colleague told me about working for a UK supermarket which outsourced software development tasks to India. The work was done over-night. A physical Kanban board was manually copied at the end of the working day in each country. That's clearly a job that software could do more reliability.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944696474603017https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944696474603017Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:41:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:13:28 GMT]]>@ljrk @afewbugs I remember watching in amazement as software companies (who should have known better) tried to pretend that 'project management', calendars, events, meetings, meeting rooms (locations) and tasks were independent things. They failed to adequately identify and model the 'atoms' that business processes must model. Then we started to use distributed networks in different time zones and we were into Relativity and Space-Time, inadequately armed.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944587833437905https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944587833437905Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:13:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:50:49 GMT]]>@clew @afewbugs @ljrk Well, it would be. Maintenance is REALLY complex. It would be. It's development, after mistakes have been made.
Development and maintenance are the same process. I've never seen any software of any consequence stay 'finished'.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944498788991768https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944498788991768Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:50:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:43:06 GMT]]>@afewbugs So they never learn from their mistakes because someone else pays the price on their behalf. Or is it 'takes their punishment'? I don't believe in development and maintenance teams. The '10x developers' (or 1000x with their AI slave) need to be slowed down, to deal with the consequences of their massive egos. We want those who write code that doesn't break to write more code, not them. The rock stars break too many TVs.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944468437911365https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/woo/statuses/115944468437911365Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:43:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:35:21 GMT]]>@afewbugs Ok, I see you have some clear understanding in mind how it should work.
What should happen if a task is not done in time? Duplication or "nothing"?
What happens if you change the tasks details (title, description, progress, time, reminder) while the task is still active (not yet done)? What happens if it is already done? Is the task even there after being done?
You should be able to formulate a clear feature request to see if it gets some traction.
Chris

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://noc.social/users/christianlupus/statuses/115943022387983120https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://noc.social/users/christianlupus/statuses/115943022387983120Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:35:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:09:38 GMT]]>@afewbugs the CalDAV protocol isn't clear on this, so not natively, but you can use apps like Tasks.org or macOS/iOS Reminders app and it works well.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/casraf/statuses/115940561969726094https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/casraf/statuses/115940561969726094Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:09:38 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:25:19 GMT]]>@afewbugs
I've been thinking about this in the context of sustainability. We do over-value the new, when most of the work in the world is maintenance.

How do we as a society shift what we value? Sure, ditch patriarchy, but it's a value heavily ingrained in society.

UBI would likely do it - a lot of "unskilled" but essential work would pay a lot better.

But I also wonder if we could somehow shift also with media or education.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://leds.social/users/tschundler/statuses/115935905051892015https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://leds.social/users/tschundler/statuses/115935905051892015Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:25:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:36:01 GMT]]>@afewbugs There is not. There was a third party plugin which added support for household-oriented chore tracking but it is unmaintained. Your further conjecture has the ring of truth, in my experience.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/rmi/statuses/115935239299782592https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://cloudisland.nz/users/rmi/statuses/115935239299782592Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:36:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:56:45 GMT]]>@afewbugs

Sadly there seem to be quite a few people who like that shitty president, billionaires etc. Of course they're the SAME fuckers who like evil buildings, cos they never have to use them, they always have a nice cosy vintage style office with perfect for them temperature control, lighting, furniture, comfort and of course staff to run around after their every whim.

@jetlagjen @suearcher @kitten_tech

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/NatalyaD/statuses/115935084933839271https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://disabled.social/users/NatalyaD/statuses/115935084933839271Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:56:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:19:20 GMT]]>I am told that a reliable technique for learning new swear words is to ask a firefighter about architects.
@suearcher @kitten_tech @afewbugs

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/BenAveling/statuses/115934937752952514https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/BenAveling/statuses/115934937752952514Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:19:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:10:15 GMT]]>@vfrmedia @NatalyaD @jetlagjen @suearcher @kitten_tech thinking about it, the same thing seems to have happened with the entire world hating one shitty president

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/115934902048017608https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/115934902048017608Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:10:15 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Is there a way to set recurring tasks (daily, every Wednesday etc) in #NextCloud tasks? on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:07:03 GMT]]>@vfrmedia @NatalyaD @jetlagjen @suearcher @kitten_tech that's amazing. The entire world, united in their hatred of one shitty door.

]]>https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/115934889454871483https://forum.fedi.dk/post/https://social.coop/users/afewbugs/statuses/115934889454871483Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:07:03 GMT