Todo lists: dates and categories

[Morten Nielsen]

This is not a bug, but more in the line of a wish or a usability issue

I have seen elsewhere that the TODO and FIXME tags will be/are reintroduced. This will enable the use of checkboxes for other things than TODO - this solves one of my issues.

My normal usage of Zim is to compile lists of todo with due date.

on one page
[ ] [d: 10/04/10] Do laundry.

on another page
[ ] [d: 10/04/10] Grade reports
[ ] [d: 12/04/10] Prepare for meeting

There are two things hampering me when doing it like this.
1) writing the date.
A shortcut inserting the current date or show a pop-up with a calendar, would greatly reduce the amount of [] that I need to write.

2) overview in the Todo list.
The concept of categories is way cool, and I use it a lot. I would like to add a category to an entire list. I see two options, the first is to automatically add the page + subpage names as categories. The second one is to add the category as a parameter for the TODO tag.

Example
TODO: @Home
[ ] [d: 10/04/10] Do laundry.

TODO: @School
[ ] [d: 10/04/10] Grade reports
[ ] [d: 12/04/10] Prepare for meeting

This would help a lot in the way I use zim.

[Side track warning]
Zim is way cool, and it has helped me tremendously in organising my work.

I don't loose yellow post-its anymore, and the interface is very intuitive and handy. And, as mentioned, the todo list is at the center of how I remember all the little things.

So, thanks for a useful piece of software and keep up the good work!
[/Side track warning

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Please split this into two requests, one about a more user friendly way to insert the due date and one about using tags on a header to apply them for the whole list.

[Morten Nielsen (mbn)]

I have split it into bug #562578 and #562583.