This is why TODO lines should have a common format so you can grep for them easily. I for example can grep all my TODO's and > straight into a TODO.md file and

This is why TODO lines should have a common format so you can grep for them easily. I for example can grep all my TODO's and > straight into a TODO.md file and have a near instant markdown unordered TODO list. Vim even highlights TODO: in my code and it always starts with some type of comment on a line of its own.