Repeating tasks

Set a repeat on a task and Pellet keeps it coming back.

Set a due date first

Repeat is grayed out until the task has a due date. A repeat is a rule for producing the next date, so it needs a first one to count from.

Setting one up

Open a task, give it a due date, then tick Repeat. The common ones — daily, weekly, monthly, yearly — are a couple of clicks.

Underneath, Pellet uses RRULE, the same standard your calendar app uses. That matters because it can express the awkward ones that simpler apps can’t:

What you mean	Possible
Every other Monday	✅
The 15th of each month	✅
The last day of each month	✅
The second Tuesday of each month	✅
Every Friday until the end of the year	✅
Every year, five more times	✅

What happens when you finish one

This is where Pellet differs from a checkbox that resets.

Completing an occurrence does two things: it writes a permanent record that this instance was done on this date, and it moves the parent task forward to the next date.

So you keep a real history. You can look back and see that you did the weekly review for eleven weeks and then stopped in August — which a task that simply resets can never tell you.

There’s a completion heatmap that shows exactly that, in the style of a contribution graph.

Ghosts on the calendar

Future occurrences appear on the calendar as faint outlines. They’re not real tasks yet — they don’t clutter your lists or counts — but you can see them coming.

Skipping and stopping

You can skip a single occurrence without breaking the series, or delete the whole thing. When deleting a repeat, Pellet asks whether you mean this one occurrence or the entire series.