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title: "Glossary — TaskPocket"
description: "The words task apps use loosely, defined once: recurrence anchors, start dates, deadlines, areas. Most describe a behaviour nobody bothered to name."
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# Glossary

The words this category uses loosely, defined once. Most of them describe a behaviour that apps implement differently without ever naming it, which is why a repeat or a date field so often does something other than what you meant.

- [Recurrence anchor — what a repeat counts from](https://taskpocket.io/glossary/recurrence-anchor/) — A recurrence anchor is the date a repeating task counts from: either the scheduled date, or the day you actually finished it. The difference matters.