Schedule recurring/repeating events by the 'third Wednesday of the month' or 'last day of month'
Sometimes I need to schedule something based on the day of the week and the number of weeks in the month. In other words, if I have something that occurs on the "third Wednesday of every month," I can't schedule it to happen monthly since the number of weeks in a month varies. There is currently no option for this, and I've had to resort to manually calendaring these events individually.
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Kazimierz Krauze commented
Also add the possibility to schedule first friday after the 6th of every month.
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RB commented
I firmly second this suggestion.
To add, for me it would also be useful to schedule around the spring/summer equinoxes and summer/winter soltices as they move around.
More generally: it is useful to set event recurrence to align with another already created/imported event. So if soltices were to have been imported, I could create a new event and choose from drop-down menu 'same as "summer soltice"'.
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Alexandre commented
Well I didn't know it was possible in other calendar providers while I'd love such a feature. I already use similar schedules in Todoist
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Whisper Loudly commented
This is a basic feature of any useful calendar, and I'm amazed there's no UI for it.
Workaround:
Interestingly, it works if one imports an ICS file containing a recurring event such as "last day of the month". The description of such an event might not be accurate within Proton Calendar (e.g. it might say "every month on the 31st" even though it's actually "every month on the last day"), but it will schedule correctly. So as a labor-intensive workaround, one can:
• Export an ICS with the desired event from another app and import it into Proton Calendar.
...or...
• Export an ICS from Proton Calendar with a similar recurring event (e.g. monthly on the 31st), modify the recurrence rule for the event by manually editing the ICS file, then import it back into Proton Calendar.
For the tech masochists:
If you're manually editing an ICS file in a text editor (remember to use DOS newlines), you can change the target RRULE line as follows:
RRULE:FREQ=MONTHLY;BYMONTHDAY=-1
That's for the simple case of "last day of the month", repeating forever. See RFC 5545 § 3.8.5.3. Obviously, this isn't remotely practical, but someone might find it useful.
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Samuel commented
This is a core feature that makes the app less good in UI/UX sense than Google Calendar, etc. This is the #1 thing I want the most in an update from the dev team.
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LG commented
This seems to have been added. You can access it when you create a new event.
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Ethan commented
Please add this! I have events that occur on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Saturdays of each month and this would help me switch to using Proton Calendar!
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Jon R commented
Until this gets fixed Proton Calendar is useless for me.
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RS 232 commented
This would be a very useful option. For me it is essential to be able to enter a recurring event on the very last day of each month, regardless of the day number (28, 29, 30 or 31). Unfortunately, this missing functionality prevents me from switching to Proton Calendar.
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J commented
Yep this is really important! It would be a great improvement.
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Joshua commented
This is the main reason keeping me from switching to Proton Calendar.
I have a recurring meeting for every 3rd Sunday of the month
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Rafael commented
+1
I would need something like every week day, now I need to create 5 meetings that recur once per week... terrible ux tbh. -
Lauren J. commented
We also need a "fifth ... of the month" for events that only occur when there are five of that day in the month. For example, I have something that repeats every Thursday EXCEPT on fifth Thursdays, and something different on those days.
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Kiril commented
I created an event on the last day of December and set it to monthly recurring. It only appears on months with 31 days… This is not useful; an option to repeat on the last day of a month is a must.
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Ydo commented
The feature already exists for monthly recursive event but not for yearly. It would be useful for holidays as example (the automatic holiday calendar doesn't works well for Quebec and is also missing features)
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Bill Walton commented
I have examples of a need for scheduling recurring first and third Thursdays; and for the Thursday after the third Tuesday (not the same as the third Thursday).
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Ryūga Hideki commented
Same as https://protonmail.uservoice.com/forums/932842-proton-calendar/suggestions/42699389-last-day-of-the-month ...would be great to port over the votes and close this duplicate.
Not sure if this is reviewed at all, because I don't see any feedback from the developers in any ticket.
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a commented
One way to temporarily deal with this would be to schedule the event for the first of the month but have a reminder for the day before.
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Edward C commented
There are people that have regular events happening on the 1st / 15th / last day of the month, or the last business day of the month.
I have to manually add 12 different events and set them to repeat yearly, when it would be much easier to create 1 event and have it set to repeat last day of each month.
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Jonathan O’Connor commented
If you currently use ToDoist for your task management, I would make tasks there and just watch the calendar within the Proton Calendar. Their recurring feature is very helpful and I already use the app for ToDos, so it's a win-win. If you have some tasks that go on forever, it is very easy to create tasks. For me, I currently have street cleaning reminders. Hope this helps!