Thanks for this plugin that fills a gap. Being one of those who do not work with the markdown viewer open (just the editor), I would find it very useful to have the results in a side panel.
Yes. Todo.txt is just a set of rules, a task manager is more than that, it needs features to be useful. In short, as this plugin will become more opinionated about what features it has and has not over time it is better to use a characterized name instead of a descriptive name.
The downside is people may overlook it, but so be it as I have no incentive to make it popular. People need it will find it eventually anyway.
I deliberately don't provide the development plan because as any open-source project, the development may be ceased for any number of reasons so no need to cultivate unnecessary expectation. The plugin at its current stage is fully functional and useful as it is though.
Another reason is that while I have a feature backlog, their priorities are constantly changed depending on which bug/feature seems to affect my actual workflow the most.
Awesome plugin! Been thinking about moving away from Google tasks for while and this implementation of this system looks great!
One thing though, do you have any plans to have the plugin sync with a txt file on the harddrive? That way it can also be synced to mobile etc...
I imagine this working like you specify where you want the plugin to put the file on the harddrive, then you specify where to put the note for it, then whenever one updates, the other syncs up with it...
I get why you might be against the idea but I think it'd be such a godsend! Either way, thanks for considering it
EDIT: or any functionality for getting tasks into/out of Joplin honestly, this is just the idea I came up with
Sorry, I have no plan to do something like that. It is too convoluted and have too many potential points for failure. For that usage, I think you're better off using some dedicated todo.txt application.
I use this plugin to have todo items in tandem with project note, so I have one todo list for almost every note instead of one big todo list in a dedicate note. So such feature has no practical use for my scenario either.
I figured that would be the case, would've been nice to be able to put it all in Joplin but you're probably correct that a dedicated task manager is the way to go! Thanks anyway