Weekly schedules
PRO A weekly schedule starts refreshing a page at the same time on the days you pick — and can stop it again later — all by itself. Perfect for anything that follows office hours: a work queue, a status board, a booking page that opens every morning.
1:30
Monday to Friday light up — on those days the schedule starts refreshing at your chosen time, and the toolbar badge counts down as usual.
Where to create schedules
- In the popup — Timer tab, second card. The schedule is created for the page you're currently on (it uses the current tab's address).
- In the web dashboard — the Schedules page lets you type any URL, so you can schedule pages you don't have open right now.
Every field, explained
| Field | What it means |
|---|---|
| URL | The page to refresh. In the popup this is filled with the current tab's address; in the dashboard you type it. |
| Start time | When refreshing begins, as HH:mm (24-hour clock), e.g. 08:30. |
| Days | Which weekdays the schedule runs — pick any mix from Sunday to Saturday. It only fires on the selected days. |
| Auto-stop at (optional) | A stop time (HH:mm) — refreshing is stopped again at that moment. It must be later than the start time. |
| Reopen tab if closed | Default ON. If the page isn't open when the schedule fires, Refresh Pilot opens it in a new tab first. With this off, the schedule quietly does nothing when the tab is gone. |
| Disable after first run | Default off. When on, the schedule switches itself off after it fires once — a "one-shot" for a single upcoming event. |
| Enabled | The schedule's on/off switch. Turn a schedule off without deleting it — handy for holidays. |
What happens at the start time
On a matching day at the start time, Refresh Pilot looks for a tab whose address is (or starts with) the schedule's URL. If it finds one, it starts refreshing there; if not — and Reopen tab if closed is on — it opens the page in a new tab and starts refreshing that. If you set an auto-stop time, the job is stopped again at that moment.
Each schedule carries its own full set of refresh and monitor settings. In the popup, a new schedule starts from your last-used settings; on the web dashboard you can edit every schedule's interval, options and monitor rules individually — changing one schedule never affects the others.
What the editors pre-fill
- Popup editor: start time = one hour from now, today's weekday preselected, stop time = three hours from now (greyed out until you tick Auto-stop at), Reopen tab if closed checked, Disable after first run unchecked.
- Dashboard editor: start
09:00, Monday–Friday, reopen-tab on.
These are just starting values — change anything before saving.
A real example: the morning work queue
Your support queue opens at 08:30, Monday to Friday, and you want it refreshing all workday without ever thinking about it:
- Open the queue page and go to the popup's Timer tab (or the dashboard's Schedules page).
- Add a schedule: start time
08:30, days Mon–Fri. - Tick Auto-stop at and set
17:00— refreshing ends with your workday. - Leave Reopen tab if closed on, so it works even if you closed the queue tab yesterday.
- Save. Every weekday at 08:30 the queue starts refreshing; at 17:00 it stops.
Need a one-time delayed start instead — "begin in 20 minutes" or "today at 14:00"? That's the Countdown start card, right above the schedules list in the Timer tab.