Now that VS Code 1.23 allows extensions to have their own view container and their own icon in the Activity Bar, I wondered if you'd considered adding support for this in todo-tree? Definitely would be nice to get it out of the File Explorer view. Thanks either way! Cheers.
Note -- more details here: https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_23#_extension-authoring
Yes - I was going to make it an option. The only slight wrinkle is that if you decide to keep the tree in the explorer view, the container will be empty - at the moment (AFAIK) the views can be hidden, but not the containers. I'll be trying some stuff out in the next couple of days...
Please try the latest version. It adds the tree to the activity bar, and there is a new setting to remove the tree from the explorer view.
This new feature was a great addition.
How about add a counter (badge) with how many TODO's or FIXME's are in the document?
Something like this:

8-) That would be nice, but unfortunately there's no API for that yet as far as I know. If the vscode guys make that available I'll definitely add it...
Awesome, works perfectly. Thank you so much. And wow that was fast!
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Please try the latest version. It adds the tree to the activity bar, and there is a new setting to remove the tree from the explorer view.