Custom Repeat and Task Reordering Are Here
Two things shipped this week. Tasks can now repeat on a schedule you set instead of one of four fixed presets, and you can send any task straight to the top or bottom of its list without dragging it there. Both are free on every plan and work on the web and in the desktop app. Custom repeat is also available through TaskSpot's MCP server.
Repeat a task on your own schedule
Until this week a repeating task could be daily, weekdays, weekly, or monthly. That covers a lot and quietly misses a lot too. Bins go out every two weeks. A water filter gets changed every three months. The gym is Tuesday and Thursday, not "weekly."
If your task doesn't fit one of four presets, you end up doing the work the preset was supposed to do for you: keeping it in Backlog and moving it by hand every time. That's the thing this removes.
Open the repeat menu on any task and pick Custom. You get two ways to describe a schedule.
Every so many days, weeks, or months. Choose the unit, type the number, anywhere from 2 to 30.
- Every 2 days for medication
- Every 2 weeks for bin day or a payroll run
- Every 3 months for a filter change or a quarterly review
- Every 6 months for the dentist
On the weekdays you choose. Tick the days and the task lands on exactly those, every week.
- Tue and Thu for the gym
- Mon and Fri for a standup you actually run
- Sat and Sun for the things you only do at the weekend
Once it's set, the task tells you what it does. It reads "Repeats every 2 weeks" or "Repeats Tue, Thu" right on the task, so you never have to open the menu to remember what you picked.
You set an interval or you set weekdays, not both. Two taps, nothing to configure, no rules to learn.
The four original presets are still there, and every repeating task you already have keeps behaving exactly as it did. Nothing to migrate.
Send a task to the top or the bottom
Priorities move during a day. Something becomes the next thing you do, or it stops mattering until Friday. Dragging a task from position eleven up to position one is fine once. As a daily habit, on a long Backlog, it's a scroll and a drag every single time.
Now it's one click. Hover a task, click the menu on its drag handle, and pick Send to top or Send to bottom. It works on Today, Tomorrow, and Backlog.
A few ways to use it:
- Start your day by promoting one thing. Send the task you actually want to do first to the top, and let the rest of the list stay where it is.
- Demote without deleting. Something you're not doing today but don't want to lose goes to the bottom, out of the way but still there.
- Keep your Backlog honest. When you look at it once a week, push the things you've quietly stopped caring about to the bottom instead of letting them clutter the middle.
The keyboard shortcuts
If you already use TaskSpot's keyboard shortcuts, these fit the pattern you know:
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
Shift+T | Send the selected task to the top of its list |
Shift+B | Send the selected task to the bottom of its list |
Shift+K | Move it up one position |
Shift+J | Move it down one position |
Shift+K and Shift+J already existed. Shift+T and Shift+B are the go-all-the-way versions, which is why they sit on the same modifier.
Getting it
Both are live now on the web, so there's nothing to turn on. The desktop app ships them in v0.2.0 and updates itself, so if you have it installed you already have them. If you use an AI assistant to create tasks through TaskSpot's MCP server, it can set a custom repeat too.
The full list of what changed is on the what's new page.
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