An overhaul of the To-Do would be nice - because of the autosave feature, my To-Do List populates with be going back through my writing (or even at the end of my writing) and using the mention system drop down to link my articles, and now my To-Do List is full of broken partial links of stuff that are like@Corive is a hollow world. This means...and the text goes on for the rest of the paragraph. Meanwhile, the article has Corive's Geological Article link in it, and I've moved on to another part of my article. The issue I have could be resolved if I just typed out the exact article title in the middle of my text, and then use the autolinker to link of article mentions and then change the in-text sections to whatever the context makes the most sense of. But I developed my habit of using the mention system before the autolinker, so I'll go be an angry old man yelling at clouds about the autolinker workflow method. I don't mind the To Do populating with in-text placeholders as much, but I can see how it can bother others. A checkbox in general would be nice for having the To Do autopopulate, so please please please, take my 300 coins with the knowledge I'd hand over more if I could.
Watching the to do list increase automatically constantly makes me so overwhelmed; I can only imagine how overwhelming it would be for new users
I'm in complete agreement with all previous comments. I no longer use the To-Do List, because it's far too cluttered and includeds stubs and mentions that aren't the actual article I was working on. Super frustrating and overwhelming. I second A Fluffy Dwarf's idea that a check box on the article to add/not add would be super awesome, but being able to turn off auto-add is necessary I think. I would turn it off permanently, then check the articles I wanted to include. Heaven. I'd vote +300 twice or three times if I could.
I would LOVE this! As it stands, my list has become too messy to be useful; I don't want to be reminded of stubs, I want the list to be what I want to work on, in a sort of hyper-focused way.
Ya my solution for the todo list until re-written is out of site out of mind.ul#todo-list { display: none ; }
I'd look to put more than 300 points on this. The to-do list function as it exists now is less than worthless. It's so cumbersome to sort through it's a waste of time. I have to use generic article templates to create my actual to-do lists.
The todo list is really dysfunctional in its current state. Especially since the only way to automatically remove articles is by making them published, marked completed, articles. Having to go through it constantly to remove articles that I don't want to focus on (or heck, getting six variations of the same article because the mention system added it in too quickly) is a drain on my time that I could be using on other things, but I have to because I can't even hide my todo list when I open up the advanced option and tools while editing an article. Auto-Adding either needs to be seriously rectified, or just gotten rid off entirely.
I agree with this. The to-do list, as it currently functions, is unhelpful to me. I can't use it because it auto-fills with everything I've ever created, even articles that are meant to be ignorable placeholders for months or years while I work on priority items, and it clutters the to-do list so much that I avoid using that feature altogether. Really, I'd like there to be an option where, upon article/stub creation, you can quickly check a box to choose whether or not that new article is added to your to-do list or not. But this suggestion, the option to turn off the auto-adding, is great too and I'd definitely use it immediately!
Having the todo list automatically add new stubs/articles to it has become very frustrating for me as I like to have a personal list of articles I want to hyperfocus on. For example, say I just cleared off my todo list and have a list of 6-10 articles that are solely places within a city for my campaign that I want to focus on, especially for those with ADD and ADHD. Now, while writing the first one of those articles, I end up creating 5 stubs. As ddaniel said, those 5 new stubs are now on the todo list, which starts to make the todo list look cluttered and I have to manually take off those new stubs to continue focusing on strict set of articles. A "turn off" button would located under settings would make it easier and less stressful when clearing out the todo list. (I once spent 3 hours cleaning out my todo list thanks to a bunch of stubs created during WE and SC).