I use a todo.diff - so the text editor color codes my lines started with `+` and `-`

Similarly, I use todo.md, and have VIM highlight "[ ]", "[x]", "[>]", "[v]", and "[-]" for bullet-journal-like TODO, DONE, Deferred, Dropped, and FAILED, respectively.

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Like this: https://github.com/jodavaho/bashlog

wow. Thanks for the tip

That's such a hack, I love it.

So you add tasks starting with `-` and change them to `+` when they're "checked off"?

Nice!! There is a cool Todo plugin for Sublime that I used for like a year.

Love it: simple and easy to maintain. Thank you for this great idea!

I'm stealing this.

Pretty neat trick.

wow. great trick!!

This is what I do too. I tried using things like Trello but found the friction to be too high. I use org mode instead of a regular .txt file though.

+1 for org-mode. I also used Trello. Once I found beorg for iOS, I decided to switch everything to org-mode.

More love for org-mode for development. You can also schedule items for major milestones ( or anything ).

That's almost word-for-word what I like.

I'm actually pretty certain this approach, with the TODO file in VC, would work fine at least up until 4-6 developers, as long as everyone hits a basic level of competence -- but in practice, someone always suggests a more structured tool well before that point.

I'm old school, so I just constantly email myself replies to my past email with a reply to a past email with a past email with a todo list that I freshly created after finally crossing off the old ones.

It helps me sleep to add stuff to my todo list so I can offload anxiety about remembering said thing. It's great, I stole it a bit from a Buddhist meditation practice, but found I didn't trust promises I made to myself that if something is important I'll remember it later. Too much important stuff is planning and I don't like needing to burden others with reminding me to do things.

I use a similar approach, but with a VSC extension. I use this one: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/vscode-todo-plus, although I bet there are plenty others and for your editor of choice.

This is awesome! Thanks.

Does anyone else have a problem that this file just keeps growing?

It does grow quite a bit. Sometimes I go through the whole file and take out things which I've finished. I haven't found this to be much of a problem.

My problem is that I lose track of where all of my todo files are; I work on too many (client) projects to keep everything in a single file.

Luckily, over time todos tend to become todon'ts, so losing track of the old ones isn't generally a problem.

Yes

I use todo.md, and have VIM highlight "[ ]", "[x]", "[>]", "[v]", and "[-]" for bullet-journal-like TODO, DONE, Deferred, Dropped, and FAILED, respectively.

Mine is called SCRATCHPAD.md. :D

Writing down the brainstorm stuff is important to me because if I don't write it down, I am tempted to drop what I'm doing and work on my ideas or else lose them. If I went and implemented every random idea that popped into my head, I'd never get anything done as was the case for me in the past. I write these huge long essays to get my ideas and frame of mind fully described and that usually satisfies me to where I don't have to drop everything and implement the idea right there.

Literally exactly what I do. I also wake up at 3 am with an idea and put it as a reminder on my calendar.

Similar to that, but I try to group the tasks into upcoming releases. It's quite an effective way of forcing myself to do the unglamorous fixes along with the whizzbang new features.

based on your name, im guessing you have a `password.txt` also ?

Do you judge people by looking at their usernames, or by checking whether they end their sentences with "also" also? ;)

:) I find humour in odd places I guess, no ?

Yeah, I put once "experienced kamikaze" as a role in my resume. Frequency of interview requests did not change ...

I’ve been doing the same thing (todo.txt) for a while, surprised to learn it’s not just me. I like separating out brainstorm.txt, that would help keep it focused.

Same here, though I handle the ordering loosely.

Basically bubble sorting the list frequently based largely on a combination of impact and what I feel like doing at the moment.