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.
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:
- Click your avatar at the top-left.
- Select Settings.
- Select the General tab.
- Scroll down to the Advanced section.
- Toggle Reset sub-tasks on.
- Click Update to confirm.
- Tap Browse in the bottom-right.
- Tap the gear icon at the top-right.
- Select General.
- Toggle Reset sub-tasks on.
- Tap the gear icon at the top. The Settings window will appear.
- Select General.
- Toggle Reset sub-tasks on.
- Tap Browse in the bottom-right.
- Tap the gear icon at the top-right.
- Select General.
- Tick the Reset sub-tasks checkbox.
Complete and reset sub-tasks
- Click a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
- Click the three dots icon at the top.
- Select Complete & reset sub-tasks.
- Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
- Tap the three dots icon at the top.
- Select Complete & Reset Sub-tasks.
- Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
- Tap the three dots icon at the top.
- 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
- Click a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
- Click the three dots icon at the top.
- Select Complete forever.
- Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
- Tap the three dots icon at the top.
- Select Complete Forever.
- Tap a recurring parent task with sub-tasks. This opens the task view.
- Tap the three dots icon at the top.
- 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.