Should be able to schedule "the first/last weekday of the month" (actual behavior: schedules every day of the week)
It is not possible to schedule events (or tasks) for the first or last week day of the month. Examples:
Process payroll: the last weekday of every month
Send invoices: the first weekday of every month
These are very common tasks that typically fall on the first/last working day (week day) of every month.
Currently, we can only specify e.g., "the first Monday," but this is not adequate. The first Monday could be 6 days into a month which makes invoicing almost a week late.
Also if we try "the first day" it might fall on a Saturday or Sunday. Since Morgen doesn't show the previous week's tasks, if it falls on a Saturday I would have no idea the task is on my calendar.
Actual behavior:
If I try to schedule "the last weekday of the month" the AI actually schedules for every single day of the last week in the month (so I get 5 events, Monday-Friday, during the last week of the month).
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Marco Ancona (Morgen co-founder)
Jan 21, 2025
The reason why this type of recurrence is not supported in Morgen is that it is not supported by all underlying calendar providers.
For example, in Outlook there is no way to express this kind of recurrence rule.
Zac
Mar 12, 2025
Marco Ancona (Morgen co-founder) Understandable limitation -- however… I don't use Outlook. :) My providers (Fastmail, Google) both do support this option. Wouldn't it be nice to support all the options the underlying provider offers, at the calendar level (e.g., if I schedule an event on Fastmail, I can do it, but if I try on Outlook, it behaves differently within the limits of Outlook)?
Marco Ancona (Morgen co-founder)
Mar 12, 2025
Zac Yes, it makes sense. We can try to see whether we can make the recurrence field more or less restrictive depending on which calendar provider is being used.
Jan 21, 2025