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Everything on this site is free, the only proviso being that if you use bits of the code, you may not say that you wrote them yourself
(note: this is not the same as me insisting on you inserting copyright info in your code which is a pointless exercise).

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Latest News - 29 Nov 2011

ToDoList 6.3 has been Released

  • Multi-selection maintained when checking out or reloading tasklists
  • 'Username' added to checkouts
  • Save and restore due tasks notification window position
  • Add 'Donate' button to Help menu
  • Rewritten CSV exporter/importer
  • FreeMind exporter fixed to write out text as unicode characters
  • Hint added to status bar to indicate current focus
  • Read-only shortcuts added to 'Prefs > Keyboard Shortcuts'
  • External ID added to list of inheritable attributes
  • URLs can be clicked without requiring the Ctrl key
  • Option added to export all tasklists to one file
  • 'Toggle Expanded State' added to view menu
  • View options added to hide tab controls
  • 'Ctrl+A' shortcut added to tick every checkbox in check combos (Alloc To, Category, Filter droplists)
  • 'Sort by time tracking' enabled
  • Preference filepaths made relative to todolist.exe folder
  • 'Username' added to date stamp and date/time stamp
  • File specific preferences keyed by filename only (allowing ini file to moved without losing settings)
  • Dependencies 'corrected' when importing tasks
  • Fixed sorting by Parent ID
  • Fixed finding by Parent ID
  • Added checkbox to 'Add time to Task Log File' dialog to add time to 'Time Spent' field
  • Modified 'Add time to Task Log File' dialog to allow negative times (ie time to be subtracted from log/field)
  • Removed '[]' around comments in HTML exporter
  • Fixed bug with 'backup' folder
  • Allow task titles to have leading spaces
  • Fixed relative task and file links in comments
  • Fixed display of remaining time to use correct units
  • Fixed 'due today' tasks being erroneously filtered out
  • Various UI tweaks
  • New themes and theme attributes
  • Fixed various 'Find/Replace' bugs

ToDoList now has its own resources page.

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