How do planner due dates work when my date moves?

The planner never asks you to date tasks by hand. It counts back from your day.

Where a due date comes from

• A task tied to the whole event is counted back from the main day: the invitation's date, or the month you gave at set-up while there was no date.
• A task tied to one function is counted back from that function's own day.
• A task can also be pinned to a date, or have no date at all.
• Legal steps take their dates from the law. They are never squeezed or spread, and a late one says "Legal deadlines can't be moved. Check with your registrar."

Next up on the Planner dashboard shows the few things that need you this week; the full list is under Checklist.

When the invitation's date moves

Change the date under Update invitation on the website or in the app and:

• every open task tied to the main day, or to a function without a day of its own, moves with it;
• done tasks and tasks you gave a fixed date stay where they are;
• tasks that are now in the past are spread again.

The dashboard tells you once: "Your date moved from … to …. N due dates moved with it; M are now late." with See what changed. See Change the date or venue after sending.

When a function moves

Move one function on your schedule and its own tasks move with it. A function re-dated in the studio is caught on your next planner visit, which asks whether to move its tasks or keep their dates. A function new on your invitation is offered its tasks, vendors and budget line; one that was removed asks whether to put its rows away or keep them.

Starting late

If some tasks are already past their day when the planner is made, they are not dumped as late. They are spread evenly over the coming weeks, up to a week before your day, and sit under Catch up on the Checklist. The review tells you how many were spread and how many fall this week.

Help me catch up

With several late tasks, Help me catch up offers one change per late task: keep it, move it to a day, or skip it, each with its reason. Legal steps are never moved or skipped, and a task tied to a cost is never skipped. Without AI, the late tasks are spread over the next two weeks instead.