How to set the next repeat date on simple Events (not TODO Tasks)?

[vgammieri-private]

Hi,

I have the following line

• My Repeating Event
  SCHEDULED: <2026-01-31 Sat ++1w>

How can I advance the event to the next occurrence? I tried by pressing t in the Agenda, it's working, but it add a TODO modifier!

Since this is a recurring event and not a task, is there a way to achieve what I requested?

Thanks in advance

[kristijanhusak]

Hi,

Thanks for reporting. It's actually a bug. It should stay without TODO keyword if it was without it. I created an issue to look into #1096

[kristijanhusak]

The issue should be fixed now on latest master.

[vgammieri-private]

I've just tried and the TODO keyword still appears!

I have this line

* Lettura XXX                                      :xyz:
  SCHEDULED: <2026-01-30 Fri 14:30 ++1d>
  :PROPERTIES:
  :LAST_REPEAT: [2026-01-29 Thu 15:56]
  :END:

If, from the agenda I press 't' on the corresponding line, a TODO appears after the *

[kristijanhusak]

Can you provide your orgmode configuration? It will not work as expected if you are not using fast access.

[vgammieri-private]

this is my lazy.nvim config file

return {
	"nvim-orgmode/orgmode",
	event = "VeryLazy",
	ft = { "org" },
	config = function()
		-- Setup orgmode
		local home = vim.fn.expand("~")
		local path = jit.arch ~= "arm64" and home .. "/projects/org" or home .. "/storage/shared/git/org"
		require("orgmode").setup({
			org_agenda_files = path .. "/*.org",
			org_default_notes_file = path .. "/notes.org",
			org_capture_templates = {
				e = { description = "Event", template = "* %?\n\t%t", target = path .. "/agenda.org" },
				t = { description = "Task", template = "* TODO %?\n\t%t", target = path .. "/todo.org" },
				n = { description = "Note", template = "* %?\n" },
			},
		})

		-- Experimental LSP support
		vim.lsp.enable("org")
	end,
}

[vgammieri-private]

Test:

Create a simple line

* Test Event
  <2026-01-30 Fri +1w>

Go to agenda view (<leader>oaa), but keep the source file, where the event is defined, opened.

While in the Agenda buffer, move the cursor on Test Event line and

• Press t the first time => A TODO marker appears, but the date don't move

* TODO Test Event
  <2026-01-30 Fri +1w>

• Press t the second time => The TODO marker is there, and the date is moved according to +1w. Properties are filled

* TODO Test Event
  :PROPERTIES:
  :LAST_REPEAT: [2026-01-30 Fri 08:44]
  :END:
  - State "DONE"       from "TODO"       [2026-01-30 Fri 08:44]
  <2026-02-06 Fri +1w>

[vgammieri-private]

Might be I'm wrong and don't understand how org-mode should handle this case.
I want just to move away from proprietary calendar/task solution and move to plain text everything I can, what I wand to model in this case is a recurring event calendar, and, perhaps, there is no need to "update" the entry like the scheduled tasks.

[kristijanhusak]

Orgmode cycles through your todo keyword if you do not define the fast access. By default, your todo keywords are "TODO" and "DONE", so when there's no keyword it goes from empty -> TODO -> DONE -> empty->TODO->DONE, etc.

To achieve what you want, you need to define fast access. Add this setting to configuration:

org_todo_keywords = { 'TODO(t)', 'DONE(d)' }

When you press t from agenda, or cit in org file, it will show you a prompt. Press d to switch directly to "DONE", and it will log the last repeat, and not change or add todo keyword.
if you want to use some other shortcut instead of d, change the value in the parenthesis. You can find more info about it in docs https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/configuration#org_todo_keywords

[vgammieri-private]

I tried and it worked, thanks the support