Task Management

AS Notes has two complementary tools for managing todos: a keyboard shortcut to toggle todo state on any line, and a Tasks panel that shows all open todos across your entire notes workspace.

Todo Toggle

Press Ctrl+Shift+Enter (Cmd+Shift+Enter on macOS) on any line to cycle through todo states:

The toggle is list-aware — if the line already starts with - , the marker is inserted correctly without duplicating the dash:

- some text       →  - [ ] some text
- [ ] some text   →  - [x] some text
- [x] some text   →  some text

Indentation is preserved at every step, so the toggle works correctly on nested list items. If your cursor is on multiple lines (multi-cursor), each line is toggled independently.

You can change the keybinding by searching for AS Notes: Toggle Todo in Keyboard Shortcuts (Ctrl+K Ctrl+S).

Tasks Panel

The AS Notes Tasks panel appears in the Explorer sidebar. It shows a tree view of all todo items across all markdown files in your workspace, grouped by page.

Opening the Panel

Press Ctrl+Alt+T (Cmd+Alt+T on macOS) to toggle the panel's visibility, or click the AS Notes Tasks entry in the Explorer sidebar.

Navigating to a Task

Click any task in the panel to open the file and scroll directly to that line.

Toggling a Task from the Panel

Each task entry has a check button. Click it to toggle the task's done/todo state directly from the panel — without stealing focus from your active editor.

Filtering

The panel defaults to showing only unchecked (- [ ]) tasks. Click the filter icon in the panel title bar (or run AS Notes: Toggle Show TODO Only) to switch between:

• Show TODO only — only unchecked tasks (the default)
• Show all — both unchecked and checked tasks

Live Sync

The panel refreshes automatically whenever a file is saved, edited, created, deleted, renamed, or a todo is toggled. Background scans also trigger a refresh.