A JetBrains IDE plugin that turns scattered TODO, FIXME, HACK, NOTE, and XXX comments in your code — in any language — into a structured, editable to-do list, with a dedicated tool window, editor highlighting, and two-way editing.

Features

• Tool window with a tree view of every TODO in the project, grouped by file, tag, priority, or keyword, with a keyword filter to show just one keyword at a time.
• Locate & preview — show each item's file name (default), project-relative path, or full path on the row, hover for the path in a tooltip, and optionally preview on single click in the editor's reusable preview tab so browsing TODOs doesn't pile up tabs.
• Bidirectional editing — change a TODO's description, tag, or priority from the panel and the source comment is rewritten in place, with full undo support.
• Editor highlighting — keywords, tags, priorities, description text, and comment delimiters are colorized right in the editor.
• Add & complete — insert new TODOs at the caret position, or mark existing ones done. Completing a TODO stamps it with your git user name and the date (e.g. DONE fix login (done by J4sp3r on 2026-06-29)).
• Done items, kept in view — completed TODOs stay in the list, struck through and labelled with who finished them and when. Toggle them on or off with Show done in the toolbar.
• General (code-free) TODOs — track items that aren't tied to any comment. Check General TODO in the New TODO dialog; they're stored with the project and shown alongside code TODOs.
• Fully configurable — customize keywords and all colors under Settings > Tools > TODO Manager.
• Precise keyword matching — choose how keyword case is matched (any case, upper-case only, or lower-case only, so a lower-case note in prose isn't mistaken for the NOTE keyword) and optionally require a keyword to be the first word on its line (so keywords appearing mid-sentence are ignored). Defaults to any case / match anywhere.
• No double highlighting — optionally suppress the IDE's own built-in TODO highlighting (Settings > Editor > TODO) so it doesn't overlap this plugin's. Turning it back off restores the IDE's patterns. (If you uninstall the plugin while it's on, restore them via Settings > Editor > TODO > Reset to Defaults.)
• Auto-refresh as you edit files.

Comment format

TODO Manager understands a structured comment format — each part is colorized in the editor:

Part	Syntax	Example	Notes
Keyword	TODO, FIXME, …	TODO	Configurable list
Tag	[tag]	[auth]	Optional
Priority	(priority)	(high)	critical / high / medium / low, optional
Description	free text	fix login

Works in any comment the IDE recognizes — line comments (//, #, --), block comments (/* */, <!-- -->), and doc comments — across every supported language.

Colors

Sensible defaults out of the box, all customizable under Settings > Tools > TODO Manager. Tag colors are assigned automatically from a palette (with per-tag overrides available).

Requirements

• Any IntelliJ-based IDE 2025.1+ (IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm, PyCharm, GoLand, PhpStorm, Rider, CLion, RubyMine, Android Studio, …).

Building from source

./gradlew buildPlugin

The installable zip is written to build/distributions/.

License

MIT © J4sp3r