It might seem useless to some, but its the kind of tool I'd use all the time. Now the question is to find the best kind of way of doing such a tool... Just a simple note taking text editor in a tab on the side or the bottom of the screen, with project-wide and file specific notes, or a more elaborate list manager with different levels, and task management functionnalities (time spent, percentage done, priority, etc.)...

But whatever the kind of tool, it would be very useful (Right now, I manage a text file in which I compile all the project relevant informations, but its not as easy to navigate and browse)

So if someone has better ideas for such a tool, share your thoughts !

Jean-Baptiste

Eclipse collects all @todo Javadoc/PHPdoc comments from the project files and shows them in a To Do pane. If you click on one of them, you are taken to that line in the source. Since PhpED already parses doc-comments it would probably be pretty easy to add such functionality.

I personally think that is an awesome idea! I already use them @todo's throughout my entire source.

Yes, its a very good idea ! But the user should also be able to add todo items without having to use phpdoc. But its a excellent way to "collect" todo data about specific files/objects/methods/functions/whatever.

Agreed, it would be nice if todo items also could be added directly to the list. But, in case my suggestion above is implemented, it would be pretty easy to just have a text file somewhere in your project that contains nothing more than

Then you can add todo items easily enough.

On second thought, maybe that doesn't work as-is. PhpED does read the doc comments for information about classes, functions and stuff, but maybe not stand alone comments. ddmitrie - would that work?