How to schedule recurring events on Mac
Daily standups, weekly syncs, monthly reviews — set them up once.
Recurring events are the backbone of most work calendars. Standups, 1:1s, sprint reviews — they happen on a schedule. Setting them up should be fast, but most calendar apps make you click through multiple dropdowns.
Creating recurring events in Apple Calendar
In Apple Calendar, create a new event, then click the “repeat” dropdown. You can choose from:
- •Every day
- •Every week
- •Every month
- •Every year
- •Custom (every 2 weeks, specific days, etc.)
This works, but you have to fill out the event form first — title, date, time, duration — before you can even get to the repeat option. It's several clicks and fields for something you could describe in one sentence.
The faster way: natural language
Instead of filling out a form, imagine typing:
One sentence. The title, recurrence pattern, time, and duration are all parsed automatically. No dropdowns, no form fields, no clicking.
Recurrence patterns Dot understands
Dot's natural language parser handles a range of recurrence patterns:
“daily”, “every day”, “every weekday”
“every Monday”, “weekly”, “every Tuesday and Thursday”
“bi-weekly”, “every 2 weeks”, “every other Monday”
“monthly”, “every month”
All of these work inline — just type the recurrence as part of the event description and Dot parses it.
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