New Recurring Due Dates Feature in Trello!

You might not need recurring card automations or Card Repeater Power-Up anymore!

Trello’s just added a new feature that will help you manage your recurring tasks. No automation or Power-Ups needed!

Keep reading to see how it works:

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🔁 Repeating Due Dates Now Available

I’ve been often asked about best practices for creating cards that need to repeat weekly. You have a task that you want to repeat daily, weekly, monthly, etc. And you don’t want to copy the card and adjust the due date, so how do you handle it??

The OG solution is the Card Repeater Power-Up. It had a confusing start, because it basically copied cards and folks struggled to find the original when they wanted to shut it off, but it did the job for folks.

Then came automation, which really blew my mind and let me create exactly the type of recurring cards and tasks that I needed, with all the customization that I wanted (like dynamic due dates, updated card names to include the week number, and more!)

While the automation has been my favorite route, not everyone wants to build out Trello automation rules as much as I do 😬

So I’m thrilled that Trello has launched a new way to create recurring due dates, without requiring a Power-Up OR building fancy automation.

When you select the Due Date on a card, you’ll see a new “Recurring" option below:

Click that dropdown and you can see a handful options so that a specific task can adjust its due date once it’s been completed!

And you can get custom with it too. For instance, maybe you want it to repeat every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Click the Weekly option and choose the days you want it to recur.

Once I complete the card (click that circle on the card), it resets the due date:

(Don’t worry, dentist, I promise I brush my teeth more than just Tuesday, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. I do Fridays, too! 😜)

I previously wrote about how I organize all my recurring adulting things with a Trello board that handles what day it was done and logs that to then reset the due date to the frequency I want. It’s great, but requires a lot of automation and this new simple features solves about 85% of it, just by letting you say how often you want to do a task, no automation required!

And it’s great for business use cases too, like reminders for creating reports, checking in with your direct reports, prepping for meetings, or other tasks that need to happen on a recurring basis.

So how are you planning to use this? Drop a comment or reply back to this message and let me know!

👔 Pro tip:

Did you know you can open the due date menu by pressing “d” when you have a Trello card open? 🤔

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