Guide Scheduled Tasks

Scheduled Tasks

Most of the time you open a create window, pick your sources, and press Create. Scheduling is the other option: pick a future day and time, and Scholarly starts the creation for you then instead of now. It runs once, at the time you chose.

This is useful when you want a report waiting for you in the morning, when you would rather a long video lecture generate outside your working hours, or when you are lining up several creations and want them spread out.

Where to Find It

On the last step of any create window — the step with the Create button — a Schedule button sits next to it. Choosing Schedule starts the task later; choosing Create starts it right away.

It is available across the creation tools, including:

  • AI Document, AI Slides, and Spreadsheets
  • Podcasts and Video Lectures
  • Worksheets, Timelines, Mind Maps, and Story Books
  • Deep Research and Text to Speech
  • Study Packs

Everything you normally set in the create window — sources, model, style, instructions — is saved with the schedule. The task starts with exactly the settings you had on screen.

Choosing a Time

Selecting Schedule opens a small Schedule this task window with one field: Start date and time.

  • Pick a date and time at least one minute from now. Anything sooner is rejected with a short message.
  • The time is read in your device's current time zone, and the window names the time zone it is using underneath the field. If you travel or change your device's clock, check that line before you confirm.
  • Press Schedule task to confirm, or Cancel to go back without scheduling.

After you confirm, a message names the exact date and time the task will start, so you can double-check the slot at a glance.

Scheduling is one-time only. There is no repeating or recurring option — to run the same creation again, schedule it again.

Where Your Scheduled Tasks Live

On Home

A Scheduled tasks section on Home lists everything you have queued, with a count next to the heading. Each row shows the task's title and the exact start time it is waiting for. This is the one place that gathers every scheduled task, wherever you created it.

In a Project

If you scheduled the task while creating inside a project, it also appears in that project's Tasks tab, with the same title, start time, and controls. The tab shows a badge with how many tasks that project has queued.

In Chat

You can also ask Chat to run a creation later. When it does, the conversation shows a scheduled block for the task with the start time, in the same place the running task would normally appear. When the task starts, that block turns into the usual progress card and then the finished result.

Starting a Task Early

Every scheduled row has a Run now button. Press it and the task starts immediately instead of waiting — the row leaves the scheduled list and behaves like any other background creation from that point on: it shows progress, keeps running if you close the window, and tells you when it is ready.

If the task happened to start on its own a moment before you pressed the button, Scholarly tells you it has already started and moves the row into progress.

Worth Knowing

  • A scheduled task is a normal creation with a delayed start. Once it begins, everything in Background Tasks and Notifications applies — progress on Home, completion emails, and retry if it fails.
  • It spends your AI creation allowance like any other creation of that type. If you are close to a limit, see Plans and Limits.
  • You do not have to stay online. Generation happens on Scholarly's servers, so a scheduled task starts whether or not your laptop is open or Scholarly is in a tab.
  • Run now is the control on a scheduled row. The row shows the title, the start time, and Run now — nothing else to manage while it waits.
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