A Maker's Dream Factory

There is a lot of “get things done” software out there. But that involves installing one more program for a single purpose or visiting one more site, and keeping track of one more username and password. Why not use a program that most of us already use on a daily basis ? Not to mention a favorite application among the hacker community.  You can use notpad++ as a todo list with expandable topics or categories. Simply open a new text document save it in your preferred extension (todo.TXT).  Once that is done start making your categories by typing in a title and ending it with an open brace “{” and finish that categorie’s list with a closing brace “}” Like so:

Things to do this weekend{
Go skydiving
Go swimming
Go camping
}

then go to the >Language menu and select >C>C, or you can try any other language to see which suits you best, I liked C because it allows you to have sub topics. But Pascal also works fine, if you only need one level of categories.  This will allow you to open and close the braces on any of the categories.

You can see the effect in the pictures below using Pascal:

My todo list expanded

My todo list with top two categories closed

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