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Oh, I've always wanted something along these lines. I've yet to find an app that handles "this thing, if I'm late, still needs to be on-time next time" (like a mortgage payment) versus "this thing, if I'm late, should move all future occurrences accordingly" (like cleaning the toilets).

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Gonna pile on to other's suggestions, and say Todoist can do this. You can schedule a task to happen every four weeks, and the next occurrence happen four weeks after you complete it (even if you're a few days late) or four weeks from when it was last due. Pretty nice for my needs, might fit yours too.

This is exactly what Org mode's repeaters can do: https://orgmode.org/manual/Repeated-tasks.html .

I use an app called 'Alarmed' on my iPhone for this. It's got everything I need, in particular you can repeat items on a fixed period or 'x days from the time you actually manage to tick it off', which is great. It's free with a one-off IAP to unlock extra features (can't remember what they are - I paid it years ago).

http://yoctoville.com/

Omnifocus has repeatable tasks and you can pick whether they repeat based on the due date (once a month, like the mortgage), or on completion date (I use this for cleaning chores, so if I'm late to clean the bathroom, don't tell me to do it in 2 days because it's Saturday, tell me to do it 1 week from now)

It does, as does Todoist and other task managers. But it's never a first class citizen and takes a backseat to one-off task management. For many, these features or even Google Sheets or the Notes app is sufficient. It wasn't for me, though.

Things the ios app has this, though I find the UI somewhat confusing.

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