Some jobs never really finish. The site gets swept every Friday, the porta-potty gets serviced every Monday, the dumpster swap happens on the 1st of the month. You could add a fresh task for each one every week, but that’s exactly the kind of busywork a task list is supposed to save you from.
A recurring task handles it for you. Set it up once with a Repeat setting, and Eano creates the next copy on schedule, with the same name, notes, assignees, and attachments, until you tell it to stop.
Why This Matters
The chores that slip are the ones nobody owns this week. When the cleanup task shows up on its own, already assigned to the right crew, it gets done without you having to remember to ask. And because Eano only ever creates the next copy, your task list doesn’t fill up with months of identical future tasks. You see this week’s and next week’s, and that’s it.
Setting Up a Repeat
Open the project’s Tasks tab and click Add Task, or open an existing task with ••• → Edit Task.
Give the task a name, a description, and assignees as usual.
Set the dates under Due Date. The end date is the one that counts: the Repeat menu stays greyed out until the task has one.
Open Repeat and choose how often:
Daily — every day.
Weekdays — Monday through Friday, skipping weekends and major US holidays.
Weekly — the same day every week.
Monthly — the same date every month.
A blue panel appears with the rule spelled out, like Repeats weekly on Wednesday. Under End Repeat, leave it on Never or choose On date and pick the last date in End On.
Click Create (or Save Changes).
The repeat follows the task’s start date, or its due date if it has no start date. A task that starts on a Wednesday repeats on Wednesdays.
When you choose On date, Eano suggests an end date to get you started: a week out for Daily, seven working days for Weekdays, a month for Weekly, and a year for Monthly. Change it to whatever fits the job.
How the Next Copy Gets Created
Eano doesn’t build out the whole series up front. It creates one copy at a time: on the day a task starts, the next one in the series appears. (If you set up a repeat on a task that’s already started, the next copy appears right away.)
So with a weekly cleanup that starts this Wednesday, next Wednesday’s task shows up on your list this Wednesday. You can always see what’s coming next without scrolling past months of copies.
Each new copy keeps:
The name, description, and attachments.
The assignees, who get the usual new-task notification each time a copy is created.
The color.
The length. A task that runs Monday to Wednesday repeats as a Monday-to-Wednesday task, and a timed task keeps its hours.
The repeat itself, including any End Repeat date.
Each copy starts out incomplete, whatever happened to the one before it. Completing a task doesn’t trigger the next one early. The calendar does.
Monthly repeats on the 29th, 30th, or 31st land on the last day of any month that’s shorter, then go back to the original date when they can. A task on January 31 repeats on February 28, then March 31.
Spotting a Recurring Task
In the task list, a small repeat icon sits next to the name of every recurring task. Hover over it to see the rule.
Click the task on the Schedule tab and the preview shows the rule under the due date.
Changing or Stopping a Repeat
Each task in a series only knows about the one that comes after it. That makes the rule simple: to change what happens next, edit the newest task in the series, the one with the latest date.
To change future copies (a new assignee, an updated description, a different day), edit the newest task. The next copy picks up your changes. Copies that already exist stay as they are.
To stop at a certain date, open the newest task and set End Repeat to On date.
To stop right away, open the newest task and set Repeat to Does not repeat, or delete it. Deleting it asks you to confirm, because it ends the series.
Editing an older copy only changes that one task. It’s already done its job of creating the next one, so changes to it don’t carry forward.
Repeats also stop on their own when the project is completed or archived. Any copies that were already created stay on the list.
A Few Things Worth Knowing
Recurring tasks can’t have dependencies. A repeating task can’t wait on another task, and no task can wait on it. On a recurring task, + Add Dependencies is greyed out. On a task with dependencies, the Repeat menu is greyed out until you remove them.
Repeats need an end date. Until the task has one under Due Date, the Repeat menu stays greyed out.
Weekdays skips holidays too. It uses the same major US holidays as the rest of your schedule, not just weekends.
Set up repeats on the web. Use the web app in your browser or the Eano Pro desktop app. The Eano Pro mobile app shows each copy as a regular task, but it can’t set up or change a repeat yet. Editing a recurring task’s name or dates in the mobile app leaves its repeat alone.
Assignees hear about every copy. Each new copy sends the normal assignment notification, so a daily task means a daily notification. Pick the frequency with that in mind.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I make a task repeat every week? Open the task (or create one), give it dates, and choose Weekly under Repeat. It repeats on the same day of the week as its start date.
Why is the Repeat menu greyed out? Usually one of two things. Either the task has no end date yet, so fill one in under Due Date first. Or it has dependencies, so remove them under Depends on. Recurring tasks can’t have dependencies.
Why don’t I see all the future copies of my recurring task? That’s by design. Eano creates one copy at a time, on the day the current one starts, so you’ll only ever see the current task and the next one.
I marked my recurring task complete. Why didn’t the next one appear? The next copy is tied to the calendar, not to completion. It appears on the day the current task starts, whether you’ve finished it or not.
I changed my recurring task, but the next copy didn’t pick up the change. Why? You probably edited an older copy. Only the newest task in the series shapes the next one. Find the copy with the latest date and make the change there.
How do I stop a task from repeating? Open the newest task in the series and set Repeat to Does not repeat, or set End Repeat to an On date. Deleting the newest task also stops the series. Completing or archiving the project stops it too.
Can I make a task repeat every two weeks, or on the first Monday of the month? Not yet. The choices are Daily, Weekdays, Weekly, and Monthly on the same date.
My task repeats on the 31st. What happens in shorter months? It lands on the last day of the shorter month, then goes back to the 31st in the next month that has one.
Can I set up a recurring task from the mobile app? Not yet. Set it up on the web or in the desktop app. Each copy still shows up in the mobile app like any other task.
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