How to Create Repeating Task Monthly on Specific Day [added in OmniFocus 3]

I apologize if I’m missing something, but is it possible to create a repeating task such as “review business report with boss” that repeats on the 1st Tuesday of every month?

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no, not yet. OmniFocus’ repeat options have been very basic since version 1.0. Hopefully a future update will change that.

For now, I just use BusyCal to create what you were asking for.

You can send in your feedback via Help > Contact Omni to send your vote in to Omnigroup. Hopefully our votes will push this feature request up the ladder.

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Thanks for the clarity. I’m relatively new in my commitment to making OF holistically work. It’s a little troubling that this has been lacking since version 1.0; I’d think that this type of functionality would be a pretty key requirement if you wanted to have this in OF rather than using a calendar. I’m trying to use Calendars for actual time specific things such as meeting, etc., rather than tasks. I’ll take your advice and share feedback with the company. Thanks!

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+1 for this feature request. I have stuff I like to do on the first Saturday of the month. :-)

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+2, and I was surprised this wasn’t possible already.

I’ll be emailing Omni to add my vote. Hope you guys have/will as well? :)

ScottyJ

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+3: I second that!

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+another one please! I have quite a few tasks I do on a particular day of the month!

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@vok and @stevemccoy make sure to email Omni. That’s how they record interest in a given feature :)

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+1 here for this as well. Just needed it for the first time and was really surprised not to find it.

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+1 - I have a number of tasks that need this feature. It’s really unfortunate to be required to kludge a workaround for “on the last day of the month”, etc. Surely there are good designs for this in the wild already.

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+1 Can’t believe this hasn’t been added yet!

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Any update on this request? Some use cases:

  • Task that needs to be repeated on the 25th of each month.
  • Tasks that needs to be repeated at the end of each quarter
  • Tasks that should be once every Spring
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+1 from me, please.

I have about half a dozen such repeating tasks.

Currently I set to to the nearest actual date in the month; then adjust once that gets near.

I believe it is logged as a request. I shall be delighted when it appears :-)

Thank you!

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+1 from me too

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This’d be fantastic.

As well as being able to say "first monday, second monday etc), I would want it to be able to say “last monday, second to last monday, third to last monday” etc.

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Count me in too. I want to schedule tasks on 1st Sunday, 2nd Tuesday & 2nd Thursday of each month. It’s so easy to create such entires in the Mac calendar - why not in OmniFocus?

Also how about being able to schedule an item on every 5th Sunday of the month (which will only happen a few times per year)?

in friendship

Rowland

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Not to mention the possibility to set reviews to specific days of the week or month… But as always: Send your suggestions and wishes to omnifocus@omnigroup.com to make sure they are seen and counted by The Omni Group.

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Yet another vote for this feature.

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The OmniFolks will browse the forums as time permits but the +1 votes may fall through the cracks. If you’d like your votes to really count, send a feature request e-mail to omnifocus@omnigroup.com

They’ll enter the +1 into their internal database to bump up a feature request hopefully to get a feature in earlier.

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Hi Folks! wilsonng is right about dropping us an email to log your request, via omnifocus@omnigroup.com. It’s our most surefire way to ensure that everyone’s request gets heard.