TODOtxt

Simple syntax plugin both for vim and neovim to give a bit of life to your TODO without any bloat.

Features

• Simple
• Easy to use
• A bit of eye-candy with color-coded types of tasks
• A sense of fulfillment when you complete a task
• I'm using it daily for 5 years with no issues
• Fits physical blackboards and paper notes perfectly
• Addicting

Whitespaces don't matter and indentation can be useful to create a tree structure:

Installation

Use your favorite plugin manager (recommended, both for neovim and vim)

Plug 'EtiamNullam/vim-todotxt-syntax'

Manual (vim)

Move todotxt.vim to ~/vimfiles/syntax (Windows) or ~/.vim/syntax (Unix)

Make sure that syntax is enabled in your vimrc file by syntax enable

Usage

After you've installed the plugin installed every file that ends with .todotxt will have this syntax highlighting enabled.

Start a line with one of these characters to highlight it with various colors:

Character	Highlight Group	Suggested meaning
-	Type	To do
+	String	Done
!	Special	Important
?	Function	Question, optional or needs more information
/	Comment	Cancelled

You can use :set filetype=todotxt to force it for current buffer, might be useful for scratch buffers.

Notes

• More info about syntax files
• All examples are shown using white-chocolate theme.
• vim will understand paths to other files which can be followed even in plain text using gf