Settings

Access settings through File → Settings.

General Settings

  • Directory: Set the default location for todo.txt files
  • Inactive: A semicolon separated list of keywords you want to use for marking something inactive
  • Active Font: How to display active items
  • Inactive Font: How to display inactive items
  • Enable due:: Enabling recognizing the due: keyword and when to color lines with warning color as well as how to color warning and late items
  • Font size: The default font size to use
  • Refresh automatically when files has changed: Tries to monitor changes on disk and refresh
  • Show dates: If this is not selected, creation dates are not shown (they can still exist)
  • Add dates to lines: Automatically add todays date to new item created
  • Treat threshold as inactive: Treat items that haven't reached their threshold the same as inactive ones
  • Sort all inactive last: All inactive items last in the list (else they are shown in default sorting)
  • Live search: Search the list directly as you type. This is generally what you want. HOWEVER if you select Window → Show all in the menus the todo.txt and done.txt will both be shown, allowing you to do searches over both new and archived items. For a large done.txt it may be a good idea to turn off live search first.
  • Ctrl-Alt-t as Todo hotkey: As it says
  • Track delete: Put deleted items into deleted.txt
  • Respect threshold dates: Enable the t: keyword
  • Respect threshold contexts and projects: Allow the t: keyword to not only have dates as keys, but also context or projects
  • Treat due as threshold: Sometimes the deadline and the threshold are the same thing
  • Enable tray: As it says
  • Check for updates: Checks ca once per week if there is a new version of Todour and notifies you if there is
  • Remove duplicate lines: If two lines are identical, remove one (this is from a onenote integration problem that happened a few years ago)
  • Default deadline/threshold to add when missing: When executing a rec: there is need for a t: or a due: to update. If there is only rec: in the item the application needs to add either a t: or due:
  • Symbol for NOT in search: The negation symbol
  • Business days: What days of the week to be considered as business days. When for example having a rec:+3b this helps the application to understand what days to count.
  • Priorities at checked: When an item is checked/finished the priority can be kept (moved to after the dates), changed to pri:X or removed from the item.

Settings File Location

Settings are stored in platform-specific locations: - Windows: %APPDATA%/Todour/ or registry - Linux: ~/.config/Todour/ or ~/.todour/ - macOS: ~/Library/Preferences/ or ~/Library/Application Support/Todour/