🧠 Focus To-do List — Stay Organized While Navigating Complex Codebases

Focus To-do List is a Visual Studio 2022 extension designed to help developers stay focused and organized when working with large and complex codebases.

🚀 Why Focus To-do List?

When maintaining or extending a large solution, it's easy to lose track of where you are, what you've already analyzed, and what still needs attention. Like many developers, I used to leave temporary comments in the code or add UI text just to confirm I was in the right place. But sometimes, I forgot to remove those changes—and they made it to production. 😬

Focus To-do List was born out of that frustration. It gives you a structured way to track your thoughts, tasks, and code references—without cluttering your codebase.

✨ Features

• Multiple To-do Lists per Solution
  Organize your work by creating as many lists as needed for different tasks, features, or modules.

• Two Item Types
  ✅ To-do Items with checkboxes to mark completion
  📝 Note Items for general comments or reminders

• Code Linking
  Link any item to a specific line of code. Double-click to jump directly to it.

• Breakpoint Monitoring
  Enable Monitor Breakpoint Hits to automatically highlight the related item when a breakpoint is hit.

• Color Customization
  Use the built-in color picker or define your own colors via the CustomColors.txt file.

• Categorization & Grouping
  Assign categories to items and group them for better organization.

🛠 Installation

1. Download and install the extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace.
2. Open Visual Studio 2022.
3. Go to Extensions > Manage Extensions and search for "Focus To-do List".
4. Install and restart Visual Studio.

📘 Usage

• Open the Focus To-do List panel from View > Other Windows > Focus To-do List.
• Create a new list and start adding items.
• Right-click an item to link it to a line of code.
• Use the color picker to highlight items.
• Enable breakpoint monitoring from the settings menu.

📂 Example

[Feature X Analysis]
✅ Review data model
✅ Confirm UI behavior
📝 Check API response format

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.