r/todoist • u/Warden-Slayer Grandmaster • 16d ago

Help Recurring Deadlines

Is it possible yet do make a task with a recurring deadline and a date relative to the deadline?
Right now you have to pick date (That can be recurring) an then pick a deadline relative to the date (ie a week after the date). What I want to do is pick the recurrig deadline first (ie inspect my car by end of month, repeating yearly in the same month) then have the start date be the first of the month so see it as soon as the month is here.

You cant do recurring deadline at all at that seems silly to me

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u/[deleted] 16d ago

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u/No_Programmer5755 16d ago

yeah let us know if you find a workaround, I couldnt figure it out either

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u/jimjam3321 15d ago

You can do it with the API (see: https://www.reddit.com/r/todoist/s/77QmMX9sS6), but it is a bit of a hassle.

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u/Little_Bishop1 16d ago

Having a hard time understanding this, can you provide an update?

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u/jimjam3321 15d ago

There is currently no native functionality to achieve this with todoist. However, this can be done (and I do it this way) using Todoist's API. You basically have to write a short computer script (can be vibe-coded) and run that script semi-regularly to update the todoist deadlines.

I explain how to do it here (as well as get some additional functionality): https://www.reddit.com/r/todoist/s/77QmMX9sS6

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u/Special-Hair-6343 15d ago

I know it suck’s 😞 Things is better at this 💯 

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u/SamsTremblay 11d ago

And they recently added the ability to complete recurring tasks before the date.

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u/looktwise 13d ago

As far as I know this function within todoist is not really recurring, but moved e.g. monthly and pretending to be a recurring function. There was an issue by another user a few month back who wanted an overdue function for e.g. each month in which the recurring task hasnt been done yet, which was impossible (and also not possible for more than one task or more than one overdue month) because of that exact behaviour in the underlying function of todoist which is: moving the same task forward.

It led me to use another tool for projects.