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doublebogey · Joined: 20 Oct 2005 Posts: 23

Good evening to all, from a relative newcomer.

I would like to make users of AHK aware of a program called ToDoList
http://www.codeproject.com/tools/ToDoList2.asp

A extremely handy way to organise your AHK scripts
I am not connected in anyway, but find this a absolute hidden gem.

This program was written by a programmer to keep a check list of his own Programming tasks.

Features
- Freeware
- Tree layout of tasks, hierarchical
- Multiple Task Lists
- Linking to files
- Searching of List
- Filters of List
- The most optioned and customized Task List I have ever seen.

So how do I use ToDoList and AHK.
If I find a really useful piece of code I copy it to the comments section of ToDoList, and give the script a Title.
If it is a whole script I am saving, I save the script in Notepad++ .and also copy the script code to the comments section.
Then link the .ahk script via ToDoList 'File Reference'.
Now I can launch the AHK file directly from ToDoList from the view button.

Because ToDoList is in a tree format.
I have a Parent task called AHK snippets, this has several sub tasks titles such as, Menus, Loops, Hotkeys, GUI etc, these now have any snippets I have collected under the appropriate subtasks.
I have another Parent title called 'Handy Full Scripts' for all full scripts
and my own parent title for mostly useless, unfinished, confused, and partly working scripts Smile

This keeps everything well organised.

I can also add a URL of any web page to the comments or File Ref field of any task. this allows you to launch the relevent web page from the task. Allowing you to return to the source of the reference information.

The task Lists allow sorting of columns, so I can sort by Date Created, Task Title, Priority, Last Modified, Category, Assigned to, Created by, Status. (There is 22 fields that can be turned On/Off via preferences.)

A little about those columns,
You can add a 'Category' to a task, eg. Work, Personnel, XP, Command Line, games, multimedia,
You can add a 'Status' to a task, eg Started, Planning, Testing, Released, Finished.
You can add a priority to a task, rate your ahk scripts, 1 - 10
You can assign a script in a team environment to someone else.
You can estimate how much of the task is complete, 70% AHK script complete.

Would you like to track how much time you spend coding a script, then turn on the clock, it will log how long you spend on that task.

How about the ability to search all of the information we have now created or collected in out tasklists. including comments.
ie, Find 'GuiControlGet' will return a list of all tasks with 'GuiControlGet' in the comments or title section.
Like the search in this forum,

So now here is the catch.
I found ToDoList via google one day and never looked for a Task organizer again.
But I liked to tinker with macro utilities to automate some of ToDoList shortcuts.
Eventually I found AHK, and wow, this application is also amazing. (thanks Chris, wd)
I have tried to write a script that will copy whatever I have highlighted straight into ToDoList via its command line.
I have had moderate success but unfortunately its not very well written. (see beginner)
I have got it to work and it is enough for me, but I believe it is worth sharing or developing further as it is a really useful combination.

@AGU and CopyPassage users. I encourage you to try this. I use it a lot to copy the URL and contents of the clipboard to ToDoList, its extremely organised and great for gathering reference material. You can relaunch the URL from ToDoList by holding down the control key to activate the link. The script below allows for the adding of Clipboard, URL of Page(IE/Firefox/Avant), Page title, Time and Date, Logged in Users name, Computer name. All to the Task Title or comments section.

I know that this code should be posted in the 'Ask for help' but
a) It only works with ToDoList
b) I don't know how to link.
so, if a moderator feels the need to split this correctly, please do.

Problems,
-code to be optimised (loops, etc)
-calling preferences from task bar first time comes up empty.
-could not get get a alternate hotkey to work
-probably obsolete lines
-it really is a mess, so a total rewrite may be needed.
-I don't have physical time to keep learning, but would like to.

To Use.
-Install ToDoList from the above link
-Move Copy2Task.ahk to the same directory as ToDoList
-Run Script
-Highlight text in web, email, pdf, word doc, help file, whatever.
-Press win+c , brings up intermediate GUI
-OK, will start ToDoList if closed and copy clipboard as per preferences.

Very useful, and a great idea. just poorly implemented be me.
Make sure you look into ToDoList preferences.

PhiLho · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 9:55 am Post subject:

First, I must admit I only skimmed through your article and CodeProject's one, but I find the software interesting. The screenshot is impressive, it seems powerful.

Now, perhaps I would use something else to organize scripts.
For completeness, I thought I may point out some similar utilities for organizing information in pages and trees.

I first discovered TreePad Lite. Nice, but limited to plain text. At least, its save format is also plain text, to one can reuse the work in another application.

Then I found KeyNote that can import TreePad files. It is open source (Delphi), allows RTF. Quite good, with some glitches, and author abandonned developement.

I tried Freemind but I have some hard time to get familiar with the interface.

I will try EverNote which seems very nice too. Discovered in this forum. Closed source and quite big, but it seems to be worth a try.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

Ryushi · Joined: 23 Nov 2005 Posts: 3

AGU · Guest

dmiranda posted a link to Neomem in the AHK CopyPassage thread.
http://www.neomem.org

Sounds like it would be an alternative too.

Cheers
AGU

dmiranda · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 12

It works as advertized, but it is very complex. Could you provide some "template" preferences? Perhaps playing with them it will be easier to understand this program. I am currently testing it (together with AGU's copypassage).

One quetion:

when loading todo.ahk from startup, it wont load ToDoList. Should I put both on startup?

ParanoidX · Joined: 16 Dec 2005 Posts: 149 Location: Australia

I need this type of tools to organise my snippets.

PhiLho · Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:54 am Post subject:

I haven't thought of using such CHM tool to organize notes...
It depends how it stores and organizes its info. Alas, the screenshot section of HelpMaker is broken.
I haven't tried EverNote yet, but it has the advantage of assigning categories and keywords to each note. It seems to have decent export capability, which is important: I don't want to be forever tied to one proprietary format.
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vPhiLho := RegExReplace("Philippe Lhoste", "^(\w{3})\w*\s+\b(\w{3})\w*$", "$1$2")

toralf · Joined: 31 Jan 2005 Posts: 3841 Location: Bremen, Germany

ToDoList2 has a new beta release:

4.9 Feature Release (30 May 2006)

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Ciao
toralf

Titan · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 5382 Location: /b/

ToDoList2 looks like a really good tool for programmers. It's comprehensive organisational features definitely aids in managing large or multiple tasks. The colourful user interface looks inviting and the great flexibility of the program means it can boast a whole load of neat features...

I'll check it out but I don't really think it's for me. I can see this being used with large C++/C# apps but AutoHotkey is too easy and simple to require this kind of logging or management.
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TotalBalance · Joined: 22 Jan 2007 Posts: 180 Location: CO, USA

Hi doublebogey,

I just came across this script, well done. It's exactly what I was looking for. TDL has made some major enhancements since you posted this script, have you made any improvements on this script.? if so, I'd love to take it for a spin.
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mobius · Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:40 pm Post subject:

Nice one doublebogey Cool

I was Looking for something like this to track bugs ideas & updates on a per user basis between projects!

Was using a clunky system hogging CVS environment when all we really needed was THIS! Twisted Evil

And its Portable AND it uses XML ... Thanks Again