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I have my own informal format that doesn't use the [], just single characters - this is an unstarted todo / this is a started todo x this is a fini

• kseistrup 5y ago
  That resembles what I use in my daily paper agenda: / Unfinished task X Finished task % Canceled task ↗ Task moved to a later date ↙ Task moved to an earlier date In effect, I can convert the ‘/’ sigil to any of the last four sigils and I can see at a glance what still needs to be done.
• yardshop 5y ago
  This is similar to my own format too, but opposite meanings for some of them, and a few have somewhat mnemonic character names: ~ todo (tilde) * started (star) - done (dash) x didn't or won't do # comment > design item I use this mostly to write out and track steps in scripts and programs I'm writing. I will use one or two levels of indentation and blank lines within entries. example feature steps > the example feature will demonstrate such and such and make use of this and that - write stub version * fill in actual code - part A ~ part B x call xyz function # didn't do this because of ... ~ add extra features I do this mostly in the header comment of a script (Python doc string), but sometimes pull it out into its own text file if it gets too big. I wrote a script at one point to convert these kinds of notes into a web page with various background colors per status. It helps to visualize it sometimes but I don't actually use it that often.