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How to Make Trello Cards Repeat (Recurring Tasks Power-Up)

As you manage your various projects and to dues and tasks within Trello

you may find the need to create a recurring card

to have a particular card we appear at a regular interval

let's take a look at this card for example

let's say I need to email my manager a weekly report

and this is something that I need to do each and every week

so how should I manage this card

should I archive it and then create a brand new card each and every week

well there's a much easier way

and the best way to do it is to enable the card repeater power up

to access your power up select the menu select power ups

and you will get your full list of power ups

now it should be noted if you are a free or basic user of Trello

you are only permitted one powerup per board

if you'd like to enable all of these power ups

you will need to upgrade to Trello business-class

so here's the card repeater power up

and I'm going to enable it

there's really no other settings that we need to adjust at this point

we can close this menu

so now when I go into this email manager weekly report

you will see that I have an additional button here under power ups

I have a repeat button

so if I click on this I get a few different options as to how frequently

how often do I want this particular card to repeat

we've got three choices here

weekly monthly and yearly

and if you'd like to have something more frequently

let's say you do have something that you want to repeat daily

you would simply need to check the weekly option

and then check all the days of the week

but in most cases not a lot of people have particular tasks

that they're going to be managing that frequently

so now let's say in this example here

I want to set it at weekly

and I'm going to leave it at 12 noon

that sounds like a good time for this card to display

and I want it to pop up on Thursday

I need to get it in before the end of the week

so maybe Thursday at noon with good time for this card to reappear in this particular list

I do have a few additional options here below

I don't have to do it every week

it could be every two weeks or some other distance criteria that that we like depending on what you pick above

so for example if I select monthly

I can choose not only the number of the number of months

but other choices will come up

such as you know do I want on the first of the month

which date of the month

or maybe I just want it on the very last day of the month

but let's go back to our weekly example

weekly on Thursday

I do want it to appear every week

you also get a choice of which list you would like this card to reappear

and I'm going to stay with tasks

and lastly what position do I want it to appear at the very top of my Trello list or at the bottom

I'm going to say top

and then depending on the complexity of the settings up above here

I think it's nice the Trello gives us a nice summary of what we've selected

you will see this card repeat on March 30th 2017 at 12:00 p.m.

so it tells you the next time that this card is going to repeat

and then another helpful note below that is if this card is deleted or moved to another board will stop repeating the card

so as long as you archive this card and keep this card within this particular board

it will continue to repeat

all I need to do is select save here

you can see my next repeat here at the top of the Trello card

and I can get on with my day

so now when I select this card and let's say I've completed it

so I'm going to say archive tells me that this card is archived

but in just a day's time in that tomorrow happens to be Thursday

that card is going to reappear at the top of my list

so if you have the need to have certain cards repeat or reappear at a certain time

be sure to check out the card repeater power up

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