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Keeping track of tasks, things to do on a programming project

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jroad:
Hi,

Whether as a hobbyist or professional developer, I was curious about some tools & methods people use to keep track of tasks for a project.  I have used a text file in the past for small projects, creating labels like:


--- ---***********************
Things to Do
***********************
ADD ....
FIX .....
TEST ....
....

*****************
Finished tasks
*****************
....
etc.
As well as categories for design considerations, bugs, etc.

I have been experimenting with FreeMind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) for organizing functional design thoughts and so far I am liking it.  For a to-do list application catered towards developers, I came across this the other day: http://www.abstractspoon.com/tdl_resources.html but have not done any testing on it so far.

Rover:
My favorite tool for such things is Mantis Bug/Issue Tracking software.

Mouser uses it here to track of stuff.  :Thmbsup:

It may seem like overkill for moderate use, but things seem to grow as time goes by and once you have 6 or 7 (or more) applications to keep track of, it's nice to have alreay been using the right tool for the job.

mouser:
well things like bugzilla and mantis are good if you have a big multiuser project.. but for single developer todo list, i would rather have a nice local tool.  that abstractspoon one jroad posted looks nice, going to give it a try.

jroad:
I had a look at Mantis recently and it looked pretty good and setup seemed rather painless.  Going up to the level of bugzilla there is also trac:  http://www.edgewall.com/trac/

PhilKC:
In eclipse I just use

//TODO
//FIXME
//NOTE
and
//WTF

Which automatically adds a task with a priority. (TODO == normal, FIXME == high, NOTE == low and WTF == high)

For VS2005 I end up using a comment block at the top of the class/function in question.

PhilKC

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