Fsnotes: [REQ] Handling ToDos across all Notes.

[dircadmin]

I would love to be able to view all To Dos across all notes (or across notes within a folder).

Ideally it would show the ToDo line items in an extra note with a link to the note itself.

[clayreimann]

@dircadmin How will we be able to To-Done things? From what I can see both the edit and preview views are just webviews that show markdown. AFAIK the checkbox list on GH is not part of the general markdown spec.

I love the idea of being able to check things off (it's the major reason I'm not all in from Notes.app) but I'm not sure what the UX would look like.

Thoughts @gingerbeardman @CameronBanga?

[dircadmin]

@clayreimann for me, it's not about having a checkbox or not (where a checkbox would be nice indeed), but more about the visibility of ToDos in general. I'd love to see if there's open ToDos anywhere. I have many many notes, but without an indicator, I can't work with ToDos as I can't see them anywhere.

A number in the list view of the count of open ToDos would be a beginning. And/Or a way to search for open ToDos.

[clayreimann]

Could any list item be a todo? Or do you use a particular character to make a todo?

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[gingerbeardman]

Take look at this https://blog.github.com/2013-01-09-task-lists-in-gfm-issues-pulls-comments/

• [X] OK
• [ ] Maybe
• [ ] No

[clayreimann]

Sure, but that's GFM; it's not in the commonmark spec. It's also not how todos are currently handled in FSNotes.

https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/blob/fb7938de34b7f38b02af9c71a28dc0e6706f71ed/FSNotes/Helpers/TextFormatter.swift#L515-L531

I'd love for FSNotes to support that but I don't think we're close to being there.

[glushchenko]

I think it is possible to implement - [ ] and render checkboxes in NSTextView. Added in personal roadmap.

[dircadmin]

How about listing open todos in the notes list? Would this also be possible to implement?
I really like the idea of todos, I just need a way to find them among all the notes.

[glushchenko]

@dircadmin, of course possible. I will try to implement it today.

[dircadmin]

Please, if possible also provide a way to search for notes with open todos.

[glushchenko]

“Open todos” is all notes started with “n - “, right?

[dircadmin]

If you can toggle list items as todos, then every list item can be a open todo. So I would recommend to show the number of the todos (list items beginning with a "+") in the notes list and make a shortcut to list all notes with open todos, like searching for "+ ", just with a quick shortcut.

Of course if you change the todo to "- [ ]", then this would be the snippet to search for.

[gingerbeardman]

list items can also be specified with - or * or + or numerical, and maybe more

[dircadmin]

That's true, but if I "toggle todo", it changes to "+"

So maybe using "- [ ]" as the todo markup, also through the todo toggle shortcut would make sense

[glushchenko]

Added here:

https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes/releases/tag/2.0

[dircadmin]

That was quick..

An Option to only show open ToDos in the sidebar item would be beneficial.

[thiemehennis]

Am I the only one having difficulties understanding the todo feature? I see brackets but don't see how they come back in the Todos view. There seems to be no documentation about this feature.

[gingerbeardman]

You use - [ ] in any note, and the Todos view just lists any notes containing that.

[thiemehennis]

ok, thanks for the clarification. In my installation they do not show up in the Todos view. This time I already restarted and checked and still not visible. No biggy, but just wanted to mention here.

[gingerbeardman]

contents of note

- [ ] OK
- [ ] this is a test

- [X] done
- [ ] next

[thiemehennis]

this works if I paste it exactly as it is

but if I make a couple of todos myself, exactly as stated here (space
between brackets etc), then it does not show up.

should show up right? but it doesn't.

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 3:50 PM Matt Sephton [e-mail]
wrote:

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contents of note

• [ ] OK

• [ ] this is a test

• [X] done

• [ ] next

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[gingerbeardman]

Are you using a simple hyphen? What locale is your mac set to? What language keyboard? Any other unique aspects to your setup?

[thiemehennis]

Dutch. Nothing particular I think. Normal QWERTY keyboard.
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What locale is your mac set to? What language keyboard? Any other unique
aspects to your setup?

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[clayreimann]

Does it work as expected of you use the keyboard shortcut? (cmd+0, this also toggles between done and not done)

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