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title: "Help — TaskPocket"
description: "How recurring tasks, start dates and deadlines actually behave, including the parts people find surprising. Instructions, and the problems people hit."
canonical: https://taskpocket.io/help/
lastUpdated: 2026-09-01
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1. [Home](https://taskpocket.io/)
2. Help

# Help

How the product actually behaves, including the parts people find surprising. Each topic has a page of instructions and a separate page of the problems people hit, because a question worth answering is worth its own address.

- [How to set up a recurring task](https://taskpocket.io/help/recurring-tasks/) — Set a repeat from the task editor or by typing it, choose whether it counts from the due date or the day you finish, and give it an end condition.
- [Recurring tasks: common problems](https://taskpocket.io/help/recurring-tasks/faq/) — Why a repeat stopped, why the next one landed on the wrong day, why finishing early did not move it, and what happens when you untick one by mistake.
- [Start dates and deadlines: how the two fields work](https://taskpocket.io/help/dates/) — The field called When in the app is the start date: it decides which day a task appears. The deadline is separate, schedules nothing, and is part of Premium.
- [Dates: common problems](https://taskpocket.io/help/dates/faq/) — Why a task left the Inbox on its own, why a deadline will not save, why something due today is not in Today, and where the time of day you typed went.