My activity runs on the wrong weekdays: how to fix days scheduled by mistake

How wrong days usually get in

A schedule set up in a hurry is easy to get slightly wrong. The usual causes:

• One tap off. You meant Tuesday and Thursday and tapped Monday and Wednesday, or ticked Saturday while aiming for Sunday.
• A week that starts on another day. If you are used to calendars that start on Sunday, a row starting on Monday shifts everything by one in your head, and the other way round.
• Every day left on. You added a time, set it to 18:00 and forgot to untick the days you do not train.
• The wrong time row. With two times on one activity, you changed the days on the morning time when you meant the evening one.

The symptom is the same each time: a faded planned entry on a day you never intended, and possibly a reminder that goes off on that day too.

Check before you change anything

Before you edit, make sure the days really are the problem:

1. Open the Week view and look at where the faded entries sit. Are they on wrong days every week, or only this week?
2. Check you are looking at the right activity. Two activities with similar names or colors are easy to mix up on a busy week.
3. If the activity has more than one time, note which time is on the wrong days. Each time keeps its own set of weekdays.

If the days are right but the activity still appears in a strange place, the cause is something else, such as a one-off date you added. Single dates are listed separately from the weekly times in the same schedule.

Fix the weekdays in EasyRoutine (Premium)

Scheduling is part of Premium; logging and the calendar stay free.

1. Open the Plan tab and tap the activity.
2. Under Recurring, find the time that runs on the wrong days.
3. Tap the wrong weekdays to switch them off and the right ones to switch them on. Every time needs at least one day.
4. Save.

The calendar redraws from the new pattern straight away, and a reminder on that time follows the new days. You do not need to delete the activity or start again, and the time, the reminder and the active period stay as they were.

What happens to past weeks and your logs

Your logs never change when you edit a schedule. Every time you logged the activity stays on the day and at the time you logged it.

What does change is the faded planned entries for past days. They are drawn from the schedule as it is now, back to the day you created the activity. For a mistake that is exactly what you want: the wrong days disappear from past weeks too, and the days you meant appear instead, so an old week may now show a faded entry on a day you did not log.

If the old days were not a mistake but a real plan you followed for a while, editing in place would rewrite that history. In that case, end the old time and start a new one instead, as explained in changing a schedule redrew my past missed days.

Avoid it next time

Two habits keep schedules right from the start:

• Read the days back. After saving, glance at the activity in the Plan tab, which lists each activity with its schedule.
• Check the first week. The week view shows the whole pattern at once. A wrong day stands out before it has turned into a long row of faded entries.

For how days, times, single dates and active periods fit together, see scheduling.

Common questions

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