Repeating Tasks

Some tasks come back again and again. This walkthrough shows how to make a task repeat — and, if you like, add each occurrence to your calendar automatically. Watch below, or read the written steps that follow.

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Open the repetition settings

Right-click a task and choose Edit Repetition, or open the task, go to its menu, and pick Edit Repetition. Same result either way.

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Choose how it repeats

There are two styles:

• When completed — Sonto keeps just one instance of the task at a time. When you check it off, a new one appears after the offset you set. Think of it as a rolling window: “water the plants 5 days after I last did.”
• On a regular schedule — Sonto creates several instances into the future on a fixed cadence: daily, weekly, monthly, every two weeks, weekly on certain days, and more. Need something specific? Custom lets you build a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly rule.

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Add each occurrence to your calendar

When you set up a repetition, you can also create a calendar event for each occurrence:

• At an exact time — the event always lands at that time, even if something else is there.
• Find an opening — Sonto places it at the best time that fits, respecting your working hours and existing events. See Auto-schedule.

By default Sonto keeps 5 occurrences scheduled ahead (you can raise this, e.g. to 10). As you complete them, new ones are created to keep that number topped up.

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Review your repeating tasks

Future occurrences can be far off, so there’s one place to manage them all: open the Go to menu and choose Repeating tasks. From there you can review, edit, or delete any repetition, and jump straight to its next instances.

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On iPhone too

Everything here works on iPhone as well — open a task, choose Edit Repetition, and you’ll find the same options.

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