🦤 DodoToGo

DodoToGo is an interactive, day-drillable visual task board for GitHub Copilot and VS Code. It combines natural-language task management with a visual weekly board, persistent state, dependency tracking, and optional parallel-agent workflows.

Overview

• Manage a weekly todo board with natural-language requests in Copilot chat.
• Drill into Monday-Friday views, move work across the week, and track task status visually.
• Use the same board through the Copilot canvas surface or the companion VS Code webview panel.

Installation

Download dodotogo.vsix from the latest GitHub release, then install it with:

code --install-extension dodotogo.vsix

Copilot integration

DodoToGo registers the @todo, @dodo, and @togo chat participants and a local MCP server that exposes the todo_* tools. Ask Copilot to create, update, list, move, or complete tasks without leaving your current conversation.

Visual weekly board

Open DodoToGo from the Activity Bar or run DodoToGo: Open Full Screen from the Command Palette. The sidebar and full-screen views share the same task state.

Usage

Copilot chat

Interact with the board using natural language. DodoToGo maps requests to its MCP tools and persists each validated change.

Canvas interactions

• Toggle status directly from the task card.
• Drag to reorder tasks within a day.
• Drag a task onto another day to move it.
• Delete tasks from the board.
• Use Start to jump a task into in-progress.

Day navigation

• Monday-Friday day selector
• Today button
• Previous/next week arrow buttons

Features

Status workflow

new → promised → planning → planned → in-progress → completed

Tasks waiting on dependencies or external work can be marked blocked.

Status color reference

Feature summary

State Persistence

• Primary state file: <workspacePath>/todo-canvas/state.json
• Write strategy: write state.json.tmp, then rename into place
• Recovery: invalid or corrupted state automatically falls back to a fresh empty state

The VS Code host uses a workspace-backed Todo Canvas storage root and falls back to COPILOT_HOME or ~/.copilot/todo-canvas when no workspace folder is open.

Cloud Sync (multi-machine via OneDrive)

Cloud Sync is opt-in. Enable dodoToGo.cloudSync.enabled in VS Code and either set dodoToGo.cloudSync.root to a OneDrive-synced folder or leave it blank to auto-detect Windows %OneDrive%. Advanced users can set DODOTOGO_HOME to the desired board root; that environment variable is the low-level override used by spawned tools.

DodoToGo uses a one-owner-machine model: a task owned by another machine is read-only until ownership is released or the lease expires. Tasks claimed by other machines are hidden from the board by default; use the 🖥️ toggle in the board header (it shows how many are hidden), or Alt+H to show or hide them. The preference is per-webview and is remembered across reloads. Ownership leases default to 48 hours; use the todo_claim_task MCP tool (with force: true when the owning machine is offline), todo_request_ownership to move ownership, or todo_unclaim_task when the owning machine voluntarily gives a task back.

Known limitations: OneDrive sync can take seconds to minutes, concurrency protection is best-effort while files are still syncing, and auto-detection is Windows-first.

Architecture

Development

• Clone the DodoToGo repository.
• Run tests from the repository root: node --test src/tests/*.test.mjs
• Package from the repository root: npm run package
• No external dependencies are required
• Implementation uses Node.js built-ins only

Configuration

• No configuration is required for local-only use
• The state file is created automatically on first use
• Theme is auto-detected from the OS color preference