Reminders and your calendar
Repeating reminders
A reminder can repeat hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, or on specific days of the week.
Why you'd care
One repeating reminder replaces forty individual ones, and more importantly it replaces remembering to create them.
The 60-second version
Set a reminder, then choose a repeat interval. Add an end date if it should stop.
The intervals
Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly and yearly, plus a custom option for specific weekdays, which is what you want for "every weekday" or "Mondays and Thursdays".
End dates
A repeat can have an end date, so "every weekday until the end of term" is one reminder rather than a standing commitment.
This is worth using more than people do. A repeat with no end runs forever, and forever-running reminders are the main reason people start ignoring notifications.
Where to set it
Repeat is not a separate feature with its own screen. It is a row inside the reminder itself: set or open a reminder on a thing, and pick how often it repeats. See set a reminder.
That is why a repeat always belongs to one thing. There is no standalone recurring rule floating free of the thing it is about.
Going further
Repeats and instances. Completing one occurrence does not cancel the series. The next one arrives as scheduled.
Yearly repeats are for birthdays. Anniversaries and renewals are the best use of the yearly interval, and imported birthdays create exactly this.
Repeating reminder or a list that resets itself? A reminder interrupts you. A list that resets is there when you go looking. For habits, the list is usually better and quieter. See auto reset.
Tips
- Give every repeat an end date, even a generous one. You can always extend it, and it forces a review.
- If a repeating reminder is being dismissed unread every time, delete it. It has stopped working.
If it's not working
The repeat stopped. It reached its end date. Open it and extend or clear the date.
It fires on the wrong day. Check which weekday the custom repeat has selected, and whether weeks start on Monday in your settings.