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Support for 'weekday' in repeats (e.g. 'every month on the last weekday')

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It would be nice to have a "weekday" category to use with repeating items. Then you could use it with a description like "every month on the last weekday".
Posted at 6:29pm on June 23, 2007
Launched
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This repeat option (and more!) are available in the new Remember The Milk. Thanks for everyone's feedback on this!
Posted 10 years ago
says:
Hi, I would totally agree with you. I have a lot to do every month on the first weekday. But sometimes it is weekend!
Posted 19 years ago
Power Poster says:
This would be very handy. As it is, I have sets of tasks that I have five of, and each repeats weekly, so one is my Monday instance, etc. Pretty kludgy, but it works.
Posted 19 years ago
says:
i second this. it would be great to say, "every month on the first weekday."

thanks!
Posted 18 years ago
says:
+1

I would just like to be able to use "after 1 weekday" for things that I do every day at work.
Posted 18 years ago
says:
I third this, it would be fantastic to set a repeat of "every month on x weekday"
Posted 18 years ago
says:
I agree.

"Last weekday of every month" would be nice, too.
Posted 18 years ago
says:
hear, hear.

having weekday and weekend as recognisable terms would be immensely useful.
Posted 18 years ago
says:
I was looking for something similar, but I guess it can't be done at this time.

You have my vote for this feature request too.
Posted 17 years ago
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+1
Posted 17 years ago
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+1
Posted 17 years ago
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+1 or even more ...
Posted 17 years ago
says:
Hi all,

Just letting you know that this is on the developer's list of feature requests. If/when it gets developed - I'll let you know :)
Posted 17 years ago
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+1
Posted 17 years ago
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+1
Posted 17 years ago
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Krissy, this was raised before by marc.garcia.marti but the answer was not positive for obvious reasons. Its great to see its being worked on but while its being worked on could it also include the date field being formula driven too? I'd like to put in a code like due:everyday NOT ("Saturday" or "Sunday")?

Thanks!

Hello folks,

any chance to implement this kind of recurrence?

best wishes,

marc

Posted at 11:31am on July 3, 2008
emily (Remember The Milk) says:

Hi Marc,

It's not possible currently, sorry -- we can look into this in the future (although it may be challenging, as people may start work on different days and it would probably need to take into consideration public holidays too).

Posted at 9:25am on July 7, 2008
Posted 17 years ago
says:
+1
Posted 17 years ago
says:
+1 for sure - would love ability to repeat "after one month on weekday"
Posted 17 years ago
says:
+1. And add weekdays to durations as well, I use Rajjan's simulation of start dates using the "zzz" list and the zxd tags. Would be much, much better if it understood weekdays/weekends.
Posted 17 years ago
says:
I've just discovered you can't do this either - so another vote to add a feature to allow me to repeat "every month on the first weekday" etc.
Posted 17 years ago
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+1
Posted 17 years ago
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I would like to be able to repeat on a weekday. eg. after weekday. This would be consistent with the "every weekday" functionality.
Posted 14 years ago
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+2 ;)
Posted 14 years ago
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Something like "every first monday" or "on the fifth of each month" could be very useful, indeed.
If you want to do something on a certain day each month (wiring money for example), this could be helpful (in addition to using a calendar that supports repeating entries, of course).

+ 2
Posted 14 years ago
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we have weekly meetings on Wednesdays and I want to do something special on the last meeting of the month. So some kind of a repeat option for "the last Wednesday of every month" would be fantastic.
Posted 14 years ago
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+1
Posted 14 years ago
says:
Definitely agree on the need for "weekday" / "weekend" repeat functionality (e.g. "Last weekday"). For that matter, "last day" would be very useful as well.

That said, it's worth noting that *specific* day-of-week repeats already work fine -- those that include either a specific day of the week by name, or a specific numerical day of the month. For example, tasks that repeat "Every month on the last Wednesday" or "Every month on the 5th" should work fine (I have several similar tasks in my own case).

The main thing missing here is the ability to use non-specific days such as weekday, weekend, and simply "last day" (which could be the 28th, 29th, 30th or 31st depending on the month).
Posted 14 years ago
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+1
Posted 14 years ago
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YES so need this. it is so hard to set up weekday and weekend routines with this vital feature
Posted 14 years ago
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+! on weekday repeat functionality
Posted 14 years ago
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+1
Posted 14 years ago
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+1
Posted 13 years ago
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+1
Posted 13 years ago
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They have it now! Great that you got it for us Remember the Milk!
Posted 13 years ago
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Yes! Please implement this!
Posted 13 years ago
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waiting for it since 6 years :)

Posted 10 years ago
Power Poster says:
And now we have it!
Posted 10 years ago
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