May 11th 2026 - Interesting Finds

Org Agenda creating repeating tasks

There are a number of ways to creating repeating tasks:

<2005-10-01 Sat +1m>

Repeater types:

  • y (yearly)
  • m (monthly)
  • w (weekly)
  • d (daily)
  • h (hourly)

Org template expansions

You can create templates with different expansions like %? for arbitrary text or %^t to prompt the user for a specific date.

You can also have a custom prompt with any text you want like:

%^{Task}
%^{Your name}

Full example:

(setq org-capture-templates
      '(
        ("i" "Inbox" entry (file+headline "path/to/your/file.org" "Inbox")
         "* TODO %?")

        ("c" "Calendar" entry (file "path/to/your/other-file.org")
         "* %^{Some Description}\nSCHEDULED: %^t")))