Bug 508264

Summary: A sidebar system to manage all todo.txt (Feature Request)
Product: [Applications] KomoDo Reporter: KDE User <cecij72018>
Component: GeneralAssignee: Akseli Lahtinen <akselmo>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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Platform: Flatpak   
OS: Linux   
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Description KDE User 2025-08-15 01:29:01 UTC 
SUMMARY
In a world where we don't have many good or feature-rich open source todo applications, thank you for making one for KDE. I currently use Errands, which has a sidebar that lists down todo lists created by the user. In my opinion, this is a must have feature to manage different todo lists. In current KomoDo, it's quite cumbersome to open different todo lists one-by-one. Having them listed in a sidebar would essentially make it easier to access todo lists. And the txt files can be organized in a folder too.

I like the approach KomoDo uses by using txt files, because the todo txt files can be opened without the application and backed up with whatever backup system we like. I read the "Issues" page requesting features on the Gitlab repository of KomoDo, and I pretty much agree with most of them. If KomoDo does go in that direction, it might become Errands but for the KDE desktop. At that point I'd pretty much daily drive it since KDE applications are more consistent with Plasma. Thank you for making this application! :D

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Comment 1 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-08-15 09:22:53 UTC 
Hi, thanks for the kind words.

I want to make it support multiple todo files by allowing them to be tabbed, so you can have one list per tab.

Would that work for you? If not, can you tell me more about the sidebar Errands uses, I'm unfamiliar with that.
Comment 2 KDE User 2025-08-15 13:58:08 UTC 
(In reply to Akseli Lahtinen from comment #1)
> Hi, thanks for the kind words.
> 
> I want to make it support multiple todo files by allowing them to be tabbed,
> so you can have one list per tab.
> 
> Would that work for you? If not, can you tell me more about the sidebar
> Errands uses, I'm unfamiliar with that.

Hello!

Yes, it's exactly what you want to support. Errands has a sidebar of tabs that let users quickly navigate between their individual to-dos they created. Currently in KomoDo, we have to open tasks one at a time, which introduces multiple steps in opening a to-do txt file: going to the folder, finding the todo, and then opening it on the app.

But having a tab listing of all the to-dos we have, like you described, will make much it easier for us to manage and access multiple to-dos easily and very fast by clicking on their tab among the list and rendering that to-do txt file on the UI. :)
Comment 3 Akseli Lahtinen 2025-08-15 14:29:13 UTC 
Ok cool, I don't know when I have time to make next release but I hopefully can get this made for it. But I added it to my list :)