Keep TODOs in git (opens in new tab)

This is a bad idea. I can come up with a TODO at any time; I especially do when I’m in the middle of something and have staged local changes. In that case, this:

    git commit --allow-empty -m "TODO: $*"

Will do the wrong thing—committing my staged changes even if I didn’t want that, and giving them a wrong commit message. If the change is small, I might not notice. If I were going to involve Git in my task tracking, I would much prefer something like this:

    todo() {
      touch TODO
      printf "%s\n%s\n\n" "$(date)" "$*" | cat - TODO > TODO.tmp
      mv TODO.tmp TODO
      $(git config core.editor) TODO
    }

Why not just use 'git notes'? This seems like exactly the sort of use case that feature is for.

Nice,

But I've checked nearly everything thing out. Online kanban boards, Trello, Asana, Org-Mode you name it...

Its extremely hard to beat the flexibility of a diary and pencil/pen. You can doodle, scratch, draw, record, take notes, maintain time, review history, write a lesson, work out problems... The list is endless... You can do all this in a easy extremely distraction less tool. And to be frank maintaining a diary gives me a great deal of discipline in fighting procrastination. Diaries also are great progress indicators.

Most successful people I know maintain diaries. Diaries and Pens are here to stay.

For a more fancy mature solution, consider http://bugseverywhere.org/

Git (and dvcs generally) is a nice hammer to hit all sorts of things that look like storage/content/versioning nails.

clever code: keeping an empty todo commit in the repo tree.

clear code: keeping a textual todo or org mode file committed in the repo.

While this is another fun and a clever trick that can be done with git and it delights the geek within me, I wouldn't do this while collaborating on production code with a team.

For that purpose I use ticgit which creates an unrelated branch in a git repository to store data. There's even a web client if you want to go fancy.

https://github.com/schacon/ticgit

Wow, nice tip. Seems like combining this with Sublime Todo (https://github.com/robcowie/SublimeTODO) would make for a really good setup.

The best TODO tool for me is pen & a paper. Silence is also the best music I have found to listen to while working :)

Anyone using http://todotxt.com/?

I pretty much always have a file called TODO in version control.

Bad advice. Keep tasks in issue tracker.