TODO Explorer

Every TODO, FIXME, HACK and BUG you left behind, in one list you can jump from.

Features

Usage

| Where | What happens |

|---|---|

| Status bar TODO chip | Rescans and opens the list |

| Tools menu → Find TODOs | Same |

| Folder menu → Find TODOs in Folder | Scans just that folder |

| Command palette → TODO Report | Full markdown report |

Settings

| Setting | Default | Description |

|---|---|---|

| Tags | TODO,FIXME,HACK,BUG,XXX,NOTE,OPTIMIZE | Which tags to look for |

| Excluded Folders | node_modules,.git,build,dist,… | Folder names to skip |

| Maximum Files | 300 | Stops the scan getting slow on huge projects |

| Maximum File Size (KB) | 128 | Larger files are skipped |

Notes

Every file has to be read through the extension bridge, so a scan is bounded on purpose: it reads at most Maximum Files files and gives up after ~18 seconds, rather than hitting the 30-second command timeout and returning nothing. When that happens the title says (partial) and the report tells you how many files were covered — raise Maximum Files, or scan a single folder from its context menu, to go deeper.

Minified files, source maps and lock files are skipped outright.

The counter is cleared whenever you save a file, because the cached result is no longer accurate — rescan to refresh it.