Dates, repeats and reminders

Use due for a date you promised someone, and scheduled for a date you chose for yourself. A task can carry all three.

• In the task panel: click Add beside Due, Scheduled or Start, then click the date to change it.
• With a key, on a selected task: T for today, M for tomorrow, W for next Monday, D to clear the due date.
• To push back: ] moves the due date a day, and } moves it a week.
• On the Calendar: drag a chip to another day. This writes the due date only, so a scheduled date stays as it was.
• On the Timeline: drag a bar to move it, or drag one end to change one date.

Swipe a task left for Tomorrow or Date, or touch and hold it for Today, Tomorrow, Next Monday and In a Week. The iPhone sets due dates only. It shows scheduled and start dates, and you set those on the Mac. On a task with no due date, Clear Date removes the scheduled date.

Quick Add and the + rows read a date from the very end of the line. It becomes the due date.

3m is not read as a date, because it could mean minutes or months. Use 3mo. A date in the middle of a sentence stays as text, so move the 3d render to staging keeps its words.

On the Mac, use Rules ▸ Repeats in the task panel, pick the interval and click Set. Anywhere you add a task, you can type every week in the line.

When you complete a repeating task, nokko writes the next one on a new line above it and moves its date. One ⌘Z takes back both.

- [ ] Weekly status note 🔁 every week 📅 2026-11-13
- [x] Weekly status note 🔁 every week 📅 2026-11-06 ✅ 2026-11-06

nokko understands every day, every week, every month and every year, and intervals such as every 2 weeks. Only one date moves: the due date, or the scheduled date if there is no due date, or the start date if there is neither.

A rule outside that set, such as every week on Monday written in Obsidian, still repeats. nokko copies the line with its dates unchanged, so set the new date yourself.

From the day it's completed (!) adds ! to the rule. In this version nokko still counts from the date on the line, so a late completion does not shift the next date.

Open the task, click Add beside Rules ▸ Remind, and change the date and time. It starts one hour ahead. macOS shows one notification at that minute, and completing the task cancels it.

- [ ] Send the proposal [remind:: 2026-11-05 09:00] 📅 2026-11-06

nokko asks for permission once, at launch. If you refused, it stays quiet and does not ask again, so turn nokko on in the Notifications pane of System Settings. The iPhone app does not show reminders in this version.

A task is overdue when all of these are true:

• It has a 📅 due date, and that date is before today.
• It is open: not done, cancelled or waiting.
• The due date passed 14 days ago or less.

Overdue is drawn in amber. The Overdue section on Today opens folded, with its count in the header, and lists the nearest miss first. Move all to Today and Move all to Tomorrow redate every overdue task at once, and one ⌘Z takes that back.

Settings ▸ Notifications ▸ Overdue digest sends one notice when tasks become overdue, counted by project. A task is included once.

After 14 days past due, a task stops being overdue and becomes Stale. It stays on Today in a folded, grey section near the bottom, above Inbox, and it drops out of every overdue count.

Opened, the Overdue section shows five rows and a line saying how many more there are, then at most 50. Stale shows up to 20. So the count you see is work you can still act on, and old tasks do not pile up into a wall.

To clear a stale task, give it a new date, complete it or cancel it. The number on the menu bar item counts today's tasks, not overdue ones.

Use Waiting when the next move is someone else's. Select the task and press A, or choose Task ▸ Waiting · A. On iPhone, touch and hold it and tap Waiting on Someone. The line becomes - [>].

A waiting task leaves the dated sections of Today for the folded Waiting section, which shows up to 20. Its due date stays on the row, and it is never overdue or stale. Press A again to put it back to open.