[j-m-o]

Agreed, at least for independent projects.

I could use all sorts of git tricks that could do the same thing, but sometimes it's nice to just keep an easy, version controlled text file I can knock things off of.

That said, I frequently sprinkle in '//TODO: ...' or '//XXX:' in source code comments when I'm in the middle of hacking. It's pretty easy to aggregate those back into my main todo list when I'm done.