Global Todo Watchtower

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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Overview

The Todo Watchtower is an always-on-top floating window that shows all of today’s unfinished todos across every project, grouped by project tab. It’s your personal “what’s left to do” overlay.

Free feature — available to everyone.

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How to Open It

• Hotkey: press ⌃⌥⌘P (Control + Option + Command + P) from anywhere. It’s a system-level hotkey — it works even over a full-screen IDE.
• Click: tap a todo row inside the Desktop Widget.

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What It Shows

• Each project with pending todos appears as a tab.
• Todo rows show: check circle, title, and creation time.
• Mark a todo done with a checkmark (strikethrough + filled circle) — it syncs back to the project.
• Add new todos, double-click a row to edit inline, hover to delete.

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Window Behavior

• A borderless, non-activating panel — it does not steal keyboard focus or activate the app, so it won’t interrupt your flow.
• Stays above your IDE and can join full-screen spaces.
• Resizable (default ~340×460, top-right corner).

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Notes

• Todos themselves are still stored per project (project-level todo app). The Watchtower is just a global view that aggregates them — it does not turn WorkDir into a global todo manager.
• Registering the hotkey uses the Carbon API — no Accessibility permission required.

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Related: Project Todos.