This is similar to my own format too, but opposite meanings for some of them, and a few have somewhat mnemonic character names:
~ todo (tilde)
* started (star)
- done (dash)
x didn't or won't do
# comment
> design item
I use this mostly to write out and track steps in scripts and programs I'm writing. I will use one or two levels of indentation and blank lines within entries.
example feature steps
> the example feature will demonstrate such and such
and make use of this and that
- write stub version
* fill in actual code
- part A
~ part B
x call xyz function
# didn't do this because of ...
~ add extra features
I do this mostly in the header comment of a script (Python doc string), but sometimes pull it out into its own text file if it gets too big.
I wrote a script at one point to convert these kinds of notes into a web page with various background colors per status. It helps to visualize it sometimes but I don't actually use it that often.
I wrote a script at one point to convert these kinds of notes into a web page with various background colors per status. It helps to visualize it sometimes but I don't actually use it that often.