Show HN: Toodles – Project management directly from the TODO's in your code

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 tool of choice.<p>One thing that we did differently, however, was to &quot;assign&quot; TODOs based on project or team rather than individual people. This way we could triage issues more flexibly to people according to their workloads and also build in more immunity to organizational change (when I was around we still had TODOs for the founders -- ten years in!).

Looks interesting! I&#x27;m looking forward to trying it.<p>The annotation syntax looks powerful but do people really edit thier code to adjust priorities and assignees?<p>On a related note, I review `TODO` in PRs and consider whether to allow them in the codebase; and `DEBUG` to indicate code that shouldn&#x27;t even be checked in. Does anyone else have a codetag for this? DEBUG doesn&#x27;t seem to be a well-known codetag, and I&#x27;d prefer to use something other people use.

If you happen to use Probot, there&#x27;s a plugin that supports automatic issue creation.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;probot.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;probot.github.io&#x2F;</a><p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JasonEtco&#x2F;todo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;JasonEtco&#x2F;todo</a>

This is great. Aaaaand here’s a Microsoft patent covering it: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patft.uspto.gov&#x2F;netacgi&#x2F;nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,748,582" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;patft.uspto.gov&#x2F;netacgi&#x2F;nph-Parser?patentnumber=6,748...</a>

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 pretty good <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hkjels.github.io&#x2F;ntask&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hkjels.github.io&#x2F;ntask&#x2F;</a>

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

Neat! We use a TODO.md, but this solution can keep track of the exact position. Looks very useful.<p>If there&#x27;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.<p>Does it ignore paths like node_modules&#x2F; and others or support command line arguments for that?

just like `rake notes` in my rails apps which also lists FIXME and OPTIMIZE.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edgeguides.rubyonrails.org&#x2F;command_line.html#rails-notes" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;edgeguides.rubyonrails.org&#x2F;command_line.html#rails-n...</a>

Very cool. Go already has the notion of custom notations in comments for handling todos and bugs. I wrote about it here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pokstad.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;gonotes.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;pokstad.com&#x2F;2018&#x2F;07&#x2F;26&#x2F;gonotes.html</a>

Maven has a similar plugin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mojohaus.org&#x2F;taglist-maven-plugin&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.mojohaus.org&#x2F;taglist-maven-plugin&#x2F;</a><p>Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maven.apache.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;maven-project-info-reports-plugin&#x2F;taglist.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;maven.apache.org&#x2F;plugins&#x2F;maven-project-info-reports-...</a>

This looks pretty cool, I&#x27;ll try it.<p>If you use Xcode, this link has a pretty nice script you can add as a Build Phase, and it generates warnings out or TODOs.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crunchybagel.com&#x2F;xcode-todo-warnings-swift" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crunchybagel.com&#x2F;xcode-todo-warnings-swift</a>

There&#x27;s a pretty nice implementation of this sort of idea in atom (I only played with it tho): <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imdone.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;imdone.io&#x2F;</a>

Off topic, I&#x27;m looking for a solution to embed SVG diagrams directly in my code as comments, with the ability to edit them as in inkscape.

Neat idea! I might throw something like this together for myself in awk for command line use.

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