There are quite a lot of us who have a lot of papers on their desks with notes, tasks, observations. And there are those who use notepad alot to store usefull information on the project. Still it’s not easy to do this organization tasks when programming as it makes you either leave the development IDE or take your hands of the mouse and keyboard.
Why don’t we have a way to make quick notes within Visual Studio 2005. Well we actually do, although I have not seen any using it. Just go to the View menu and select Task List. A dockable window will come in front and you can dock it somewhere, I dock it in a group of windows below the code, so that it is easy accessible. How do you use it, well, just double click on the first available row in the list and enter your comments/tasks there.
For example, you have a task which is actually containing 7 inner tasks/functionalities. At some point you have to hardcode a variable so that you can go faster to another task and at some point you have to get back and correct this. This happens. No, no, don’t shake your head! you did it at some point. The problem is that you will likely forget this. Well, add a task like “Correct the hardcoding on file myfile.cs line 44″. At some point you will check that list and you can see what you still need to do and well … do it. Then just mark the task as completed (checkbox on the same line left side), or delete it.
No more yellow stickers and endless blocknotes 
Cheers
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