Todo+

Manage todo lists with ease. Powerful, easy to use and customizable.

Features

Easy to use: you're just a few shortcuts away from becoming a master
Portable: being a plain text format you can read and edit it using any editor
Custom symbols: you can replace the default symbols with any of the supported ones
- Box: - ❍ ❑ ■ ⬜ □ ☐ ▪ ▫ – — ≡ → › [] [ ]
- Done: ✔ ✓ ☑ + [x] [X] [+]
- Cancelled: ✘ x X [-]
Custom colors: all colors can be customized
Custom special tags: special tags' names and their colors can be customized
Archive: you can move finished todos to a special "Archive" section with a shortcut
Formatting: you can format text in a markdown-like fashion, we support: bold, italic, ~~strikethrough~~ and code
Go To Symbol: you can easily move between projects by using the Go to Symbol in File... command
TaskPaper compatible: just set todo.symbols.box, todo.symbols.done and todo.symbols.cancelled to -
Timekeeping: you can mark todos as started and track elapsed time until completion
Timer: a timer can be displayed in the statusbar for started todos
Time estimates: you can estimate the time it will take to complete a todo by adding a tag to it that looks like this: @est(3 hours), @est(2h30m) or @2h30m. Then you can use the [est] token in statistics
Statistics: statistics about your entire file and/or project-level statistics about your individual projects
Embedded todos: it's common to have //TODO or //FIXME comments in our code, this extension can find those as well

Install

Follow the instructions in the Marketplace, or run the following in the command palette:

ext install fabiospampinato.vscode-todo-plus

Usage

It adds 8 commands to the command palette:

'Todo: Open' // Open or create your project's todo file
'Todo: Open Embedded' // Open embedded todos
'Todo: Toggle Box' // Toggle todo's box symbol
'Todo: Toggle Done' // Toggle todo's done symbol
'Todo: Toggle Cancelled' // Toggle todo's cancelled symbol
'Todo: Toggle Start' // Toggle a todo as started
'Todo: Toggle Timer' // Toggle the timer
'Todo: Archive' // Archive finished todos

It adds 5 shortcuts when editing a Todo file:

'Cmd/Ctrl+Enter' // Triggers `Todo: Toggle Box`
'Alt+D' // Triggers `Todo: Toggle Done`
'Alt+C' // Triggers `Todo: Toggle Cancelled`
'Alt+S' // Triggers `Todo: Toggle Start`
'Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+A' // Triggers  `Todo: Archive`

Settings

{
  "todo.file": "TODO", // Todo file name. Other supported names are: `*.todo`, `*.todos`, `*.task`, `*.tasks`, `*.taskpaper` and `todolist.txt`
  "todo.defaultContent": "\nTodo:\n  ☐ Item\n", // New todo files default content
  "todo.indentation": "  ", // String used for indentation
  "todo.symbols.box": "☐", // Box symbol
  "todo.symbols.done": "✔", // Done symbol
  "todo.symbols.cancelled": "✘", // Cancelled symbol
  "todo.colors.done": "#a6e22e", // Done todo color
  "todo.colors.cancelled": "#f92672", // Cancelled todo color
  "todo.colors.code": "#fd971f", // Code color
  "todo.colors.comment": "#75715e", // Comment color
  "todo.colors.project": "#66d9ef", // Project color
  "todo.colors.projectStatistics": "#4694a3", // Project statistics color
  "todo.colors.tag": "#e6db74", // Tag color
  "todo.tags.names": ["critical", "high", "low", "today"], // Special tags' names
  "todo.tags.backgroundColors": ["#e54545", "#e59f45", "#e5d145", "#ae81ff"], // Special tags' background colors
  "todo.tags.foregroundColors": ["#000000", "#000000", "#000000", "#000000"], // Special tags' foreground colors
  "todo.archive.name": "Archive", // Name of the special "Archive" section
  "todo.archive.remove.emptyProjects": true, // Remove projects without todos
  "todo.archive.remove.emptyLines": 1, // Remove extra empty lines, keeping no more than `emptyLinesThreshold` consecutive empty lines
  "todo.archive.project.enabled": true, // Enable the @project tag
  "todo.archive.project.separator": ".", // String used for joining multiple projects
  "todo.formatting.enabled": true, // Enable markdown-like formatting
  "todo.timekeeping.created.enabled": false, // Enable the @created tag
  "todo.timekeeping.created.time": true, // Insert the time inside the @created tag
  "todo.timekeeping.created.format": "YY-MM-DD HH:mm", // Format used for displaying time inside @created
  "todo.timekeeping.started.time": true, // Insert the time inside the @started tag
  "todo.timekeeping.started.format": "YY-MM-DD HH:mm", // Format used for displaying time inside @started
  "todo.timekeeping.finished.enabled": true, // Enable the @done/cancelled tag. It's always enabled if you explicitly start a todo or if you use only 1 symbol
  "todo.timekeeping.finished.time": true, // Insert the time inside the @done/cancelled tag
  "todo.timekeeping.finished.format": "YY-MM-DD HH:mm", // Format used for displaying time inside @done/cancelled
  "todo.timekeeping.elapsed.enabled": true, // Enable the @lasted/wasted tag
  "todo.timekeeping.elapsed.format": "short-compact", // Format used for displaying time diff inside @lasted/waster
  "todo.timekeeping.estimate.format": "short-compact", // Format used for the `[est]` token
  "todo.timer.statusbar.enabled": true, // Show a timer for started todos in the statusbar
  "todo.timer.statusbar.alignment": "left", // Should the item be placed to the left or right?
  "todo.timer.statusbar.color": "", // The foreground color for this item
  "todo.timer.statusbar.priority": -10, // The priority of this item. Higher value means the item should be shown more to the left
  "todo.statistics.project.enabled": "global.projects < 100 && project.pending > 0", // Show statistics next to a project, boolean or JS expression
  "todo.statistics.project.text": "([pending]) [est]", // Template used for rendering the text
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.enabled": "global.all > 0", // Show statistics in the statusbar, boolean or JS expression
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.ignoreArchive": true, // Ignore the archive when rendering statistics in the statusbar
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.alignment": "left", // Should the item be placed to the left or right?
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.color": "", // The foreground color for this item
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.command": "", // Command to execute on click
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.priority": -1, // The priority of this item. Higher value means the item should be shown more to the left
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.text": "$(check) [finished]/[all] ([percentage]%)", // Template used for rendering the text
  "todo.statistics.statusbar.tooltip": "[pending] Pending - [done] Done - [cancelled] Cancelled", // Template used for rendering the tooltip
  "todo.embedded.regex": "(?:<!-- *)?(?:#|//|/\\*+|<!--) *(TODO|FIXME|FIX|BUG|UGLY|HACK|NOTE|IDEA|REVIEW|DEBUG|OPTIMIZE)(?: |:|\"|'|`|-->|$)", // Regex used for finding embedded todos, requires double escaping
  "todo.embedded.include": ["**/*"], // Globs to use for including files
  "todo.embedded.exclude": ["**/.git", ...], // Globs to use for excluding files
  "todo.embedded.groupByFile": false // Group todos by file
}

Changing some settings (indentation, symbols, colors, tags...) requires a restart.

Dates are formatted using moment, and are parsed using sugar and to-time.

Statistics Tokens

The following tokens can be used in todo.statistics.project.text, todo.statistics.statusbar.text and todo.statistics.statusbar.tooltip, they will be replaced with the value they represent.

Token	Value
`[comments]`	Number of comments
`[projects]`	Number of projects
`[tags]`	Number of tags
`[pending]`	Number of pending todos
`[done]`	Number of done todos
`[cancelled]`	Number of cancelled todos
`[finished]`	Number of finished todos
`[all]`	Number of todos
`[percentage]`	Percentage of finished todos
`[est]`	Estimated time

Demo

Example todo file

Embedded todos

Statistics

Timekeeping & Timer

Hints:

Icons: icons can be used in todo.statistics.statusbar.text. Here you can browse a list of supported icons. If for instance you click the first icon, you'll get a page with .octicon-alert written in it, to get the string to use simply remove the .octicon- part, so in this case the icon name would be alert.

Highlight: I recommend using this extension for highlighting your embedded todos.
Projects+ Todo+: Bird's-eye view over your projects, view all your todo files aggregated into one.
Noty: Autosaving sticky note with support for multiple notes, find/replace, programmers shortcuts and more. It implements a subset of the functionalities provided by this extension.

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