Skip to content
ClickRuntime

Daily

Start every day with a fresh routine list

Yesterday's unfinished routine tasks are cleared and today's set is created before you wake up.

Runs
Daily
Apps
Todoist
AI
Not needed
Access
read+write

Send this to your assistant

Create a ClickRuntime automation: at 5am every day, delete tasks labelled routine that are still open in my Daily project, then add: review calendar, inbox zero, 30 min walk, plan tomorrow.

Paste it into your assistant. It tells you what it will send or change before it runs live.
Add to ChatGPTAdd to Claude

First time? Adding ClickRuntime to your assistant takes about two minutes.

Why use it

Why teams use this automation

Some tasks come back every single day: check the inbox, review the schedule, water the plants, send the stand-up note. Todoist recurring tasks help, but when you skip one it either piles up as overdue or gets completed once and vanishes from the history. People end up with a long red overdue list made of yesterday's routine, which hides what is actually late.

Each morning, this deletes any leftover tasks that carry your routine label from the previous day and then creates a fresh set of today's tasks from a template list you maintain. Your day starts with a clean list instead of a growing backlog of repeats.

It is a good fit for people running a consistent daily checklist, such as an opening routine in a shop or a daily admin block.

What you get out of it

  • Overdue means actually overdue

    Yesterday's skipped routine tasks are cleared, so the overdue view only shows real commitments. You stop ignoring a red list that has become mostly noise. The overdue list becomes something you can trust and act on again.

  • Every day begins with the same clean checklist

    The routine appears in the same order each morning, which turns habits into a visible list. New team members can follow it without being told what the daily steps are.

  • Skipping a day costs nothing

    A missed routine task is replaced, not stacked on top of today's. You do not come back from a sick day to a pile of guilt-inducing leftovers. Your list resets, and the habit continues the next morning without a lecture.

  • One template to edit

    The routine lives in a single template list. Adding a step or removing one changes every future morning, so there are no duplicated recurring tasks to hunt down in Todoist.

  • Keeps karma and history meaningful

    With stale copies removed, your completed counts reflect real work done each day, and you avoid inflated or empty weeks caused by recurring tasks that were never ticked. Streaks and totals then describe real days instead of piles.

How it works

What happens, step by step

  1. Every morning, ClickRuntime looks in your Todoist project for yesterday's routine tasks.

  2. Any you didn't finish are removed, so they don't pile up.

  3. A fresh set of tasks from your routine list, like reviewing your calendar or a 30-minute walk, is added for today.

Before it runs live

  • Connect Todoist

What you get

RunsDaily
Start every day with a fresh routine listtoday, 9:00Succeeded
Todoist · DailyRemoved 2 leftover tasks · Added: Review calendar, Inbox zero, 30 min walk, Plan tomorrow

Build your own

Need it to work differently?

This template is a starting point. Copy the prompt and change it, or describe a different automation from scratch, with your own conditions, more apps or an AI step. Your assistant writes it, tests it and runs it on ClickRuntime.

  • Your own rules

    Conditions, thresholds, filters and exceptions, written the way you'd explain them to a colleague.

  • Any number of apps

    One automation can read from one app and update several others. Over 248 apps are ready, and anything with an API works too.

  • AI where it helps

    Summaries, classification, extraction and drafts use ClickRuntime's built-in AI, with no extra key.

  • On a schedule or on each event

    Runs as often as every 5 minutes, or the moment an app sends an event, and keeps track of what it already handled.

Changes you can ask for

  • Run it at a different time, more or less often, or only on weekdays
  • Add an AI step, for example to summarize, sort or draft a reply
  • Add another app, for example also send it to Slack
  • Combine it with other Todoist steps into one automation

Under the hood

The code that runs this automation

This is the Python script that runs each time the automation starts. Your AI assistant writes it for you when you send the prompt, and you allow each step in your assistant. To change how the automation works, describe the change to your assistant and it updates the script for you. For every function it can use, see the script reference.
create_a_daily_list_of_to_dos.pyexample
from clickruntime import on_trigger, http, credentials

API = "https://api.todoist.com/api/v1"
ROUTINE = ["Review calendar", "Inbox zero", "30 min walk", "Plan tomorrow"]
PROJECT_ID = "6Jf8VQXxpwv56VQ7"  # your Daily project

@on_trigger
def run(event):
    headers = {"Authorization": "Bearer " + credentials.connection("todoist", "main")}
    leftovers = http.get(f"{API}/tasks", headers=headers, params={"project_id": PROJECT_ID, "label": "routine"}).json()["results"]
    for t in leftovers:
        http.delete(f"{API}/tasks/{t['id']}", headers=headers).raise_for_status()
    for content in ROUTINE:
        http.post(f"{API}/tasks", headers=headers, json={
            "content": content, "project_id": PROJECT_ID, "labels": ["routine"], "due_string": "today",
        }).raise_for_status()
    return {"removed": len(leftovers), "added": len(ROUTINE)}

FAQ

Common questions

How does it know which leftover tasks to delete?
It looks for tasks carrying the label you choose for the routine, for example one called daily. Only tasks with that label are removed before the new ones are created, so your regular project tasks are never touched.
Can some tasks appear only on certain weekdays?
Yes. The template list can include a weekday for each item, and the flow creates only the ones that apply to that day. For example, a Friday review can be left out Monday through Thursday.
Will I lose completed routine tasks from my history?
No. Completed tasks stay in Todoist's completed history as usual. Only tasks left open with the routine label are deleted, since those are the ones that were skipped and would otherwise pile up. Anything you finished stays recorded.
What permissions does it need?
read+write. Nothing else in your accounts is used.
Does it need AI?
No. It runs without AI, so it doesn't use your plan's AI allowance.
How many runs does it use?
One run each time it runs (daily). Checks that find nothing to do and stop right away aren't counted.
Can I change how it works?
Yes. Describe the change to your AI assistant, for example a different schedule, channel or filter. It updates the automation, tests it and tells you what changed.

Related

You might also like

Daily

Hide far-off tasks until they're close

Tasks due weeks away stay out of sight and come back to their project three days before they're due.

See how it works
On a schedule

Get an evening list of what you finished

At night you get an email of everything you completed that day, grouped by project.

See how it works
On a schedule

Get a Friday review of your week in Todoist

Friday afternoon brings a list of the week's completed tasks, day by day, without the projects you excluded.

See how it works

Set up “Start every day with a fresh routine list” from your assistant

Copy the prompt above, or connect your assistant first. Free plan, no credit card.

Add to ChatGPTAdd to Claude