Recurring Task for some unconnected days of year

[Archie-2021]

All I looked in documents and tested couldn't make this work, so I guess it is not an feature in tasks plugin yet.

I want to have a certain task to repeat in some days in year, like it is birthday of a group of people for example, it should be like every year on 10th April, 05 September, 19 November etc.

If there is already a way to do that please help me, documentation on this topic is very limited

Thank you very much for your efforts

[claremacrae]

Hi @Archie-2021, the docs that cover this are:

https://schemar.github.io/obsidian-tasks/getting-started/recurring-tasks/

I've found two ways to specify yearly tasks...

The documented way is:

- [ ] Card for Fred's birthday 🔁 every January on the 15th 📅 2022-01-15

I've found that this one works just as well, and is easier to understand and set up:

- [ ] Card for Fred's birthday 🔁 every year 📅 2022-01-15

There's one more example in the docs, if you want to apply multiple due dates to one task:

🔁 every April and December on the 1st and 24th (meaning every April 1st and December 24th)

[schemar]

I don't think what you require is possible. Tasks uses the rrule library to set up recurrence: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/rrule
I am not sure, but it seems what you are trying to achieve is not possible with recurrence rules. I checked Google Calendar and there it is also not possible to set up something like this.

[schemar]

As a workaround, you could schedule it on every month and skip it every irrelevant month.

[Archie-2021]

I don't think what you require is possible. Tasks uses the rrule library to set up recurrence: https://github.com/jakubroztocil/rrule I am not sure, but it seems what you are trying to achieve is not possible with recurrence rules. I checked Google Calendar and there it is also not possible to set up something like this.

I was suspecting that be the case, because there is no pattern in it, it is kinda like having multiple tasks combined (which is nice to have)

As a workaround, you could schedule it on every month and skip it every irrelevant month.

it is not a regular date in every month either, the day is not the same

this is the setting I have right now:

• #todo Update Watch Calendar 🔽 🔁 every March on the 21rd ⏳ 2023-03-21 📅 2023-03-21
• #todo Update Watch Calendar 🔽 🔁 every February on the 20rd ⏳ 2023-02-20 📅 2023-02-20
• #todo Update Watch Calendar 🔽 🔁 every January on the 21rd ⏳ 2023-01-21 📅 2023-01-21
• #todo Update Watch Calendar 🔽 🔁 every December on the 22rd ⏳ 2022-12-22 📅 2022-12-22
• #todo Update Watch Calendar 🔽 🔁 every November on the 22rd ⏳ 2022-11-22 📅 2022-11-22
• #todo Update Watch Calendar 🔽 🔁 every October on the 23rd ⏳ 2022-11-22 📅 2022-10-23

As I said the issue is not a big deal at all per se, but i wonder if can be useful in other situations . Another angle to this issue is the problem of working with different Calendars. I don't know how hard that part is to implement (I think that maybe asking too much for someone not have to deal with the issue), I just had switched totally my internal affairs to Gregorian Calendar out of this necessity.

[schemar]

Thanks, @Archie-2021. I hope this workaround is ok for now. I don't think we can provide anything more sophisticated in the foreseeable future.

[schemar]

Maybe we could later implement a feature where one task can have multiple recurrence rules and the closest next date that matches is chosen. That's how Todoist does it. For example:

- [ ] #todo Update Watch Calendar 🔁 every March on the 21st, every February on the 20th, every January on the 21st