Say “every Tuesday” and mean it

• Type “every Tuesday”, “every other week” or “daily” in the add box
• The repeat shows as a chip before you save, and you can wave it away
• Tick one off and the next one appears, with its reminders

GullyHabits could already repeat a task. Tick off the Tuesday call and the next Tuesday’s appears, with its reminders and its checklist ready to go. What it could not do was hear you say so.

Typing “Group call every Tuesday” got you a single call on the next Tuesday and a task named “Group call every”. The machinery was there. The sentence was not.

Now it reads the whole line

The add box already pulled the date, the time and the length out of plain words. It now pulls the repeat out too, and shows it back to you as a chip before you press Add.

• every Tuesday — and the short way you actually type it, every tue, every thurs
• every Monday and Thursday — more than one day at a time
• every other week, every 3 days
• every weekday — Monday to Friday, nothing at the weekend
• daily, weekly, monthly

The first one lands on the next matching day, so a Tuesday task does not sit in today’s list on a Thursday.

It knows when you did not mean it

“Every” is an ordinary English word. Write “check every invoice before sending” and nothing repeats, because that sentence is not about Tuesdays.

A parser that grabs a word every time it appears is worse than one that never did.

And when it does read a repeat you did not want, the chip comes off with one tap and the words go back into the title.

On the phone too

The Android app shares the same reader, so the same words work there. It arrives with the next app update rather than today.