you're missing a BIIIIG point. 

Either you need to queue a task as a result of some user action (i.e. send 
a reminder, calculate/aggregate/refresh some data, etc) --> usually it's a 
one-time-only activity, in which case, the following "pattern" applies
#models\scheduler.py
from gluon.scheduler import Scheduler

def demo1():
    db.asdf.insert(asdf = 'asdf')
    db.commit()

mysched = Scheduler(db, tasks = dict(demo1 = demo1) )

#controllers\a_controller.py
def an_action():
       ......
       #we need to schedule a background task
       mysched.queue_task('demo1')


Or you need a single task that repeats itself every once in a while 
(usually repeating tasks are "cron-like" and "maintenance-related"). 
In that case, you define the scheduler in models\scheduler.py, and you (as 
the admin-developer-god of the web application) queue a task in appadmin. 
Or you prepare a controller just for the occasion, that can only be 
accessed by you and run once (so you get only a SINGLE record in the 
scheduler_task table).

Now, back to your goal. If you want a single record to be added to the asdf 
table every day, you need a SINGLE task that has
repeats --> 0
period --> 60*60*24
prevent_drift --> True (if you care for "at the same time every day")

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