When you start a new cycle period, you often want the same objectives and key results as last time, with small tweaks. Copy OKRs from last cycle copies structure from your team's most recent prior cycle so you do not have to retype everything.

Where to find it

1. Navigate to your team's OKRs section
2. Select the new period in the period selector (the cycle should be empty or in draft with no objectives yet)
3. Open the Create tab

If there are no objectives in the current period and at least one older cycle exists with OKRs, you'll see Copy OKRs from last cycle on the empty state (alongside Add Objective).

What happens when you copy

OKRnest finds the most recent older cycle (by start date) that has at least one objective and copies its active objectives and active key results into the current period as new draft content.

While copying, the button shows Copying...

On success, a confirmation appears, for example: OKRs copied with the number of objectives and the source cycle name.

What is copied

For each objective:

• Title and display order

For each key result under that objective:

• Title, type (Metric, Percent, or Currency)
• From and To target values
• Owner assignment
• Weight and progress calculation settings
• Order within the objective

What is not copied

• Contributes to links are reset. Re-link objectives on the new cycle if you still need cross-team alignment
• Updates, comments, and check-ins from the old cycle (the new cycle starts with no progress history)
• Deleted (inactive) objectives or key results
• Alignment to parent key results from the previous cycle

Copied items get new internal IDs. They are unsaved draft content until you click Save as draft or Publish.

If copy is unavailable

You'll see No previous OKRs found when:

• This is the team's first cycle with content
• Older cycles exist but have no objectives
• The current period already has objectives

You can still add OKRs manually with Add Objective.

After copying

1. Review titles and targets. Adjust anything that changed for the new period
2. Reassign owners if team membership shifted
3. Set up Contributes to links again if your organisation uses alignment
4. Save as draft to keep collaborating, or Publish when the team is ready

Tips

• Copy before editing: Start from copy, then delete or add KRs rather than building from scratch each quarter
• Archive old cycles: Copying does not affect archived cycles; it only reads their structure
• Combine with manual adds: Copy brings the baseline; add new objectives for new priorities in the same cycle