How do you keep track of your programming TODOs? [closed]

Answer 1

Having done an extensive search for a suitable "to do list" application I settled on mylyn - the one that comes supplied with Eclipse.

It is easy to create and manage tasks. Tasks can be imported and linked to Bugzilla or a number of other different task repositories. It also has a "task context" which enables files that are relevant to a task to be highlighted and those that are irrelevant to be hidden (which is far more useful than I anticipated it would be).

Answer 2

I use inline TODO: comments as Visual Studio will track these for me, of course I still have to look at the task list to see them. I cannot count the number of times I have found a TODO: comments whilst reviewing some code I thought was complete.

Answer 3

Like others have mentioned, I use the standard FIXME/TODO/XXX in my code comments, and then can find the list of tasks within my IDE using their various tools. I also use hudson's task scanner plugin to keep track of everything, since I'm a sucker for graphs.

Answer 4

Eclipse tracks your TODO and list them in a proper windows automatically. I find it powerful enough if you don't need advanced features.

Answer 5

I'm quite fond of tracks. It has the flavour of GTD without getting too regimented about it.

I can quickly whack stuff in there as I think of it, and then not have to worry about forgetting after that.

Answer 6

I use Sandglaz and place my todos in 3 columns now, next and later (a little like their blog, but only one row)...and its easy and fast to use. I'm a freelancer so I work on several projects at a time so it works for me

I use pending tests only to remind myself to write tests. I use Rspec, so it has that build it.