Recurring Tasks & Templates
For chores that happen on a regular schedule — like "brush teeth" every day, or "take out the trash" every Monday — you don't want to recreate the task each time. Recurring tasks solve this.
Setting up a recurring task
- When creating (or editing) a task, turn on Repeat.
- Choose which days of the week it should repeat on.
- Save — this task becomes a template, and the app automatically generates individual task instances for the upcoming days.
How it behaves
- Each generated instance is approved/rejected independently, just like a one-time task.
- The template itself doesn't show up in your kid's task list — only the generated instances do.
- Editing the template's schedule (days, points, due time) affects future instances; it doesn't retroactively change ones already generated.
Setting an end date
Recurring tasks can optionally have an End Date — once the schedule runs its course, the template stops generating new instances and moves to Archived (use the Active/Archived switch on the Tasks screen to find it). An archived template's past instances stay in your history; duplicate it if you want to start a fresh recurring task with the same details.
Task templates for quick reuse
Beyond recurrence, you can also save any task as a template under Presets, so you can quickly reuse the same title, points, and description for a one-off task later without typing it all again. See Presets & Templates.