Toodles

Dev tools

todo tracking

SHOW HN2018

151points
44comments
#271of 2,155 in 2018
Top 13%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

6 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.

Idea: 4 for, 2 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful idea, similar tools have been built before

    From 3 comments
    • We used something like this on the teams I lead at Dropbox to (what I felt) was great effect. We had a script that would regularly run and sync with Phabricator, our bug tracking…
      newhouseb on HN
    • I made the very same thing years ago. I remember ending up removing the web-interface and use the CLI and vim-wrapper instead. I still think the syntax of the comments etc was…
      vim-guru on HN
    • Very cool. Go already has the notion of custom notations in comments for handling todos and bugs. I wrote about it here: http://pokstad.com/2018/07/26/gonotes.html
      pokstad on HN

Objections

  • Assigning TODOs to groups rather than individuals can leave tasks unowned

    From 2 comments
    • > One thing that we did differently, however, was to "assign" TODOs based on project or team rather than individual people. If this works for your team, that’s awesome, but…
      ryandrake on HN
    • looks like the team was lazy in some regard or some other negative adjective if "lazy" is too mean: -dev has extra time -queue has tasks ready to be done -dev doesnt do tasks…
      honestlyidk on HN

Requests

  • Binary releases or Docker container for easier install

    From 2 comments
    • Neat! We use a TODO.md, but this solution can keep track of the exact position. Looks very useful. If there's a way that the developers can run it without installing the Haskell…
      mockingbirdy on HN
    • Yes, I'm halfway through installing on my Mac, it'd be much easier to use a docker container or pre-built binary :) I created an issue suggesting a docker container, hope that's…
      tln on HN
  • GitHub, GitLab or editor integration

    From 2 comments
    • It would be handy if github, gitlab, vs baked this kind of solution directly into their tooling to help expose todos in open source software
      ckluis on HN
    • Oh that's a cool idea - Maybe there's an opportunity extend this into a github/gitlab/etc plugin. I'll look into that!
      aviaviavi on HN

Questions

  • Does it ignore paths like node_modules

    From 2 comments
    • Neat! We use a TODO.md, but this solution can keep track of the exact position. Looks very useful. If there's a way that the developers can run it without installing the Haskell…
      mockingbirdy on HN
    • > If there's a way that the developers can run it without installing the Haskell suite (maybe binary releases for Windows, Linux, macOS), we will try it. Great, I was waiting for…
      aviaviavi on HN
  • Do people actually edit code to change priorities and assignees

    From 1 comment
    • Looks interesting! I'm looking forward to trying it. The annotation syntax looks powerful but do people really edit thier code to adjust priorities and assignees? On a related…
      tln on HN

Alternatives named

  • Probot TODO plugin for issue creation

    From 1 comment
    • If you happen to use Probot, there's a plugin that supports automatic issue creation. * https://probot.github.io/ * https://github.com/JasonEtco/todo
      rekwah on HN
  • rake notes in Rails

    From 1 comment
    • just like `rake notes` in my rails apps which also lists FIXME and OPTIMIZE. https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html#rails-notes
      TomK32 on HN
  • ticgit

    From 1 comment
    • [ticgit](https://github.com/schacon/ticgit) might be a better kind of solution
      mmgutz on HN
  • imdone

    From 1 comment
    • There's a pretty nice implementation of this sort of idea in atom (I only played with it tho): https://imdone.io/
      faizshah on HN

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