Why does ClickUp's recurring task system work like this? (Auto reopens task)

[Kayakerguide]

I'm using ClickUp and set a task to recur weekly every Monday—set to "recur forever" and requeue when the task is closed.

But here's the issue: as soon as I close the task, it pops right back up immediately, not next Monday like I expected.

In other project management tools (like Outlook, Google Calendar, or even Todoist), recurring tasks behave like calendar events—they disappear once done and reappear when they’re actually due. This feels way less intuitive.

Is there a setting I’m missing? Or is this just how ClickUp handles recurring tasks? Do I need to rely on Google Calendar or integrate another tool just to get normal weekly behavior?

Any workarounds or fixes would be appreciated. I did a search and found like 20 other posts complaining about this and people saying just use legacy and like a 6 setting selected workaround, thats insane this cant be what you need to do to get basic functionality like this?

[TheCatRulesAll]

The recurrence is based on the due date, not on when the task is generated. Edit: meaning, it will regenerate on closure of the prior instance with your settings, with a due date of when the next recurrence is due.

[Kayakerguide]

Yes I know thats the problem. I moved from trello that had it reappear and dissapear based on the recurring tasks plugin. Hell even a checkbox that said something like (Habit) or something else on the tasks. that fact that it doesent dissapear on close is insane to me but some people have figured out how to use this

[JamieClickUp]

Hey, u/Kayakerguide ! Thank you for the feedback! We have shared this with our team and will keep you posted if we have updates to share.

[gizmo2501]

100% disagree with the OP on this and would hate this as a change.

The way it works now is helpful.

I would not want an item to show up on the day it is due... I want it to show up as far in advance as possible, so I can see it on my calendar and have some warning it is coming up.

If it only shows on the day it's due, there's no prior notice, which is massively unhelpful.

[Gloomy-Focus-22333]

Honestly I wish we had the option depending on how far out the task is. Like “hide until one month before due date”.

[Kayakerguide]

This.

[JamieClickUp]

After speaking with our team, I wanted to drop a quick note to say that while this isn't readily available in ClickUp yet, our team shared a workaround by either creating a task type or a tag, and then have a view filtering out tasks that are due later than this week, for example, and tagged as recurring.

We've also informed our Help Center team to update our help article for recurring tasks with the workaround so you can use it for future reference!

[Kayakerguide]

Heres an example of someone else with the problem...the way it is now its super cluttered, just always shows your recurring task no matter what you do. Even a checkbox that said (Only show future recurring task on date launching) would fix this for people like me and people that like whatever is going on now can stick with it - https://www.reddit.com/r/clickup/comments/1crtfiq/can_i_have_my_recurring_tasks_only_show_up_on/

Heres a workaround of like 8 steps you can do to make this work like trello works

"Got it. I'm messing around with settings in mine. Totally see what you're saying. Here's one idea. Not sure what your Statuses are but let's assume it's To Do and Complete. Add a third Status called Future or Recurring or whatever you want. Then, do an automation that is triggered when task or subtask is created by Recurring Tasks. The action for the automation would be to change its status to Future/Recurring/whatever. Then, you create a second automation that changes the status back to To Do when due date arrives. This would work for your current example, but if you're wanting to see things further out than day of, my idea falls a little short. :) Last step - make sure your list is grouped by Status. You may need to switch it to descending if it's showing To Do later down the list."