Skips & catch-up

Recura’s ledger has one load-bearing rule: only doing a thing resolves it. Everything else is commentary.

What a skip is

Skipping a task — from Today, or mid-routine on the timer — records an event: “on this day, I looked at this and set it aside,” with an optional reason. The task itself stays open. It doesn’t vanish, and it doesn’t reschedule; its pressure keeps building until you actually do it.

That sounds strict, but it’s the honest shape: a skip is information about you and the task (“I keep dodging this on Tuesdays”), not a resolution. Skips show up in your history exactly as what they were — a dash on the heatmap, a note in the day’s log — and never as failures. The app doesn’t grade.

What a skip does buy you: the task steps out of your way for the rest of the day, so a considered “not today” isn’t nagged twice.

Catch-up

After a hard week, opened tasks pile up. When the pile crosses a threshold, Today offers a catch-up pass — a triage screen of your overdue items, grouped by task:

• “I did them all” — for the things you actually did but didn’t log. Completions are backdated to their scheduled days, so your history and stats stay truthful (the heatmap fills in the past, not today).
• Skip — recorded as set-aside; the debt stays, honestly.
• Pick — expand and decide per occurrence.

The pile is yours: your assigned tasks only. A housemate’s backlog never inflates your banner, and clearing their promises isn’t a tap you can make by accident (see Households for doing it on purpose).

Missed a routine, not a week?

If you did last night’s routine but never tapped Start, use Log this run on the routine’s preview — pick the date, check off what you did, and it’s recorded as a run, backdated and labeled as logged rather than timed.