Roadmap and feedback

[pierre-lecocq]

Hello Ryan,

First, thanks for having the 2 PRs merged yesterday !

Consequently, I wanted to share a bit more about the other features I wanted to work on and maybe hear about your feedback or your plan for this mode so we don't overlap.

Beside improving the existing code, I wanted to:

• Add imenu support ✅
• Support multi-line tasks in the current keybindings I added previously
• Be able to move items to a desired section easily
• Be able to move entire sections up and down to re-organize xit files easily
• Automatically highlight some user's pre-configured keywords (i.e a project name or some tags)
• Add keybindings to add dates with the help of a calendar ✅
• Replace the "checkboxes" with emacs widget in order to make it clickable
• Add more configurations available for the user to customize the behaviour of the package ✅
• Let the user narrow the current xit file according to some criteria (i.e "open tasks", "tasks for today", "tasks only in the section X", ...)
• Improve documentation each time a feature is issued ✅

These are some ideas on top of my head, but more can be added here.

2 questions, though:

• Do you have other ideas to add or replace here ?
• At what point can I send a PR to melpa so it eases the installation and increase the install rate of the package ? Do you have any "milestone" you want to reach before ? I'd recommend do it quite early, just before adding "big features" like date support, narrowing, and so on.

(this issue is here for the discussion, we can close it when we find an agreement).

Thanks again, and as I plan to send PRs in the next weeks, don't hesitate to tell me if I mess up your personal schedule !

Pierre.

[ryanolsonx]

Great ideas!

I'd love to get it to Melpa ASAP. I started looking into it a while back but then my job got in the way.

I'm totally on board with all of your features except for "Replace the "checkboxes" with emacs widget in order to make it clickable." I really want to keep this package focused on being plaintext with nice font faces and keybindings. Once we start making it more "GUI", I feel like it diverges from what I'd want from this. I guess to your point about configurations, we can make GUI checkboxes configurable so that it's disabled by default but then you can enable it.

[pierre-lecocq]

You are totally right for the widgets and the idea that it must stay a text file.
I was thinking about replacing checkboxes on the fly, but your point is 100% valid.

So for all the other points, I'll send you PRs in the next following weeks, also depending on my work schedule.
In any case, I'll try as much as possible to send full PRs for a given feature, so it reduces the disturbance on your side.

Thanks a lot for the feedback and future support !

[ryanolsonx]

That sounds great! Also, with the GUI checkbox idea, it would be difficult to represent all of the different states (since this isn't checked or unchecked).

Thank you!

[ryanolsonx]

Something that would be nice is creating an issue in this repo for each feature idea. That way work is tracked-ish.

[pierre-lecocq]

I'll do that, no problem !

[pierre-lecocq]

@ryanolsonx Many thanks for your trust when giving me perms.
I will make sure to continue with the pattern issue/PR, even if I merge, in order to keep track of things.

[ryanolsonx]

Sweet! Sounds good. I don’t have a ton of time and trust the work you’ve been doing 😁