Automating weekly to do list

[Cailen Kinney]

Hi,

(I'm reposting this query as I didn't get any solution last time)

My team has a list called 'To do w/c 8th September'. Each week we manually change the name of this list to include the next Monday's date. I am trying to find a way to automate this.

It's easy to make it happen one time. You can schedule an automation e.g. every Monday at 6:55 am, rename list "To do w/c 8th September" to "To do w/c {date}". 

However, the following week the automation does not work, because the name of the list is no longer "To do w/c 4th August" but has changed to the following week, and so the automation doesn't recognise this list and so the date on the list stays the same. 

Is there a way to solve this?

[Luciana Munhoz]

Hi Cailen!

I was testing here, and you can use the wildcards feature to what you need. You can update this rule and replace the date with a wildcard {*}. This way it will get the current list name and rename it to the corresponding week date.

Here's an example:

every monday, rename list "To do w/c {*}" to "To do w/c {date}"

Hope this helps!