The tasks that bite you are not the daily ones. You remember those, because they are in front of you every day. The dangerous ones are the things you do once a year, or once a quarter, the tasks with a long enough gap between them that you forget they exist until they are already late. The certificate that expires every year. The seasonal cleanup. The annual review that has to happen before a deadline nobody is watching.
Recurring tasks in Edventory exist for exactly those. You set up the thing that needs to happen, you set how often, and the system remembers so you do not have to carry it in your head. When it comes due, you get a reminder. The once a year task stops depending on whether you happened to remember it this year.
This matters more in a thin department than a big one. When you have a large team, somebody usually remembers the annual stuff, because there are more heads holding more knowledge. When you are the whole department, all of that knowledge lives in one head, yours, and that head is busy putting out fires. The recurring task system is a place to offload the long interval memory that is exactly the kind a busy brain drops.
It is not glamorous. It is a reminder system for the predictable. But the predictable is what quietly goes wrong when one overloaded person is the only safety net. Writing the recurring stuff down, once, and letting the system carry it, is how you stop being the single point of failure for everything that only happens occasionally.