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Reset a sub-task in Todoist

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Your daily workout involves several steps: putting on gym clothes, filling up your water bottle, and taking that 5-minute walk to the fitness center everyday. Todoist lets you reset sub-tasks like these every time you complete a recurring parent task like “Do your morning workout” or “Write your weekly report”. Save precious time and clicks from adding the same sub-tasks over and over.

Reset sub-tasks

Choose the default option

If you have a preferred way that you want Todoist to handle sub-tasks that belong to recurring parent tasks, you can set it as the default option:

  1. Click your avatar at the top-left.
  2. Select Settings.
  3. Select the General tab.
  4. Scroll down and turn Reset sub-tasks on.
  1. Tap Browse in the bottom-right.
  2. Tap the gear icon at the top-right.
  3. Select General.
  4. Toggle Reset sub-tasks on.
  1. Tap the gear icon at the top. The Settings window will appear.
  2. Select General.
  3. Toggle Reset sub-tasks on.
  1. Tap Browse in the bottom-right.
  2. Tap the gear icon at the top-right.
  3. Select General.
  4. Tick the Reset sub-tasks checkbox.
If the Reset sub-tasks option is turned off, Todoist shifts the date of the parent task to the next occurrence, but it won’t re-add the sub-tasks.

Complete and reset sub-tasks

Reset sub-tasks

  1. Click a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
  2. Click the three dots icon at the top.
  3. Select Complete & reset sub-tasks.
  1. Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
  2. Tap the three dots icon at the top.
  3. Select Complete & Reset Sub-tasks.
  1. Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
  2. Tap the three dots icon at the top.
  3. Select Complete & reset sub-tasks in the Recurring task options section.

When you complete a recurring parent task and reset all its sub-tasks, Todoist automatically adds the same set of sub-tasks in the next occurrence. This keeps going until you’ve completed the final occurrence and you’re ready to complete the task permanently.

You can only reset up to 30 sub-tasks. If you have several layers of sub-tasks, Todoist ignores sub-sub-tasks. You’ll have to add these back manually to the parent task. 

Complete a recurring task forever

  1. Click a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
  2. Click the three dots icon at the top.
  3. Select Complete forever.
  1. Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
  2. Tap the three dots icon at the top.
  3. Select Complete Forever.
  1. Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
  2. Tap the three dots icon at the top.
  3. Select Complete forever in the Recurring task options section.

This completes the recurring parent task and all its sub-tasks permanently.

Get in touch

If you’re having trouble resetting sub-tasks in Todoist, get in touch with us. We— Omar, Marco, Stef, or any of our other teammates—are eager to help resolve the issue for you.