Recreate task/to-do list upon completion

[Ken Lambert]

Hello, community!  I'm a new user with a specific goal that I'm looking for Trello to do and I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

I want a task, such as "Clean Bathroom" every 4 days.  This will be a repeatable task but I don't want it just recurring every 4 days.  On day 5 and after, I want the task to be late/overdue.  When I finally complete the task, I would like the task to be recreated with the completion date, 4 days later.

How would I go about doing this?

Thank you!

[Felix · Accepted solution]

Hey @Ken Lambert

I recently wrote about how I do this with Butler: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-articles/Using-Trello-Butler-to-track-home-maintenance-tasks/ba-p/1622658

It sounds like you want a rule like the one described here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Trello-articles/New-Year-New-Automations-What-s-New-With-Butler/bc-p/1623215#M1315

That will move the task by X days from completion, rather than X days from due (which is what the ones described in my article does)

Hope that helps,

Felix

[Ken Lambert]

Felix, that is perfect.  In fact, I'm doing this for the very same reason!  Thank you so much!