Version 3.6, 31 October 2022

• Compatible with macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) through 13 (Ventura). For the latest compatibility information refer to the FAQ.
• Automatic and manual data backups have been implemented. See the Help for further information.
• You can now override standard window textures by adding appropriately-named image files to ~/Application Support/ToDo X. This is documented in the FAQ.
• Cosmetic misbehavior associated with the Find bar in category and to-do item notes has been addressed.
• Page attributes were missing from the Print panel in Ventura. This has been fixed.
• Dragging a Calendar event into ToDo X now produces a result that may include a URL useful in Ventura.
• A workaround has been implemented for a bug in Apple’s help indexer that affected the behavior of certain help links.
• Link detection in category and to-do item notes has been made somewhat more permissive, allowing additional URL schemes to be recognized.
• Clickable help links of the form help:anchor=myanchor%20bookID=mybook can now be used in notes.
• Clickable help links in notes and other parts of the user interface are launched in the background so that the application remains active.
• The warning alert that confirms a dire action, such as deletion of everything, now displays a suitably dire icon.
• The importer can now handle rtfd file packages, such as those created by recent versions of the Stickies application.
• The importer now uses version 3.0.14 of libical to read “.ics” calendar files.
• A formerly undocumented hidden preference named RowDelta has been added to the FAQ. It allows you to increase or decrease row spacing in the main window.
• A formerly undocumented command-line tool named ToDoPlistToText is now available (perhaps temporarily) as a separate download at the otherwise-obsolete page describing ToDo X to iPod Notes. It allows you to export your data as tab-separated UTF-8 text.

Version 3.5, 27 December 2020

• Now compatible with macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) through 11 (Big Sur).
• ToDo X is built to run natively on Intel or Apple Silicon, but as of yet has been tested only on Intel-based machines. Should you experience any problems when running on Apple Silicon, try using Rosetta.
• Certain sounds used by the application are now invariant across macOS releases.
• Sandboxed apps can now use the Make New ToDo Item service without restriction.
• Minor cosmetic issues affecting alerts in Big Sur have been addressed.
• The menu bar status item adopts a more felicitous appearance in Big Sur.
• Attempts to access Contacts or Calendar files could fail in macOS 10.14 (Mojave) or later. This has been fixed.
• The importer now uses version 3.0.8 of libical to read “.ics” calendar files.

Version 3.4, 11 July 2019

• Dragging a Calendar event into ToDo X now produces a more useful result.
• The application’s Edit menu now includes Find, Spelling and Grammar, Substitutions, Transformations, and Speech. These should be helpful when viewing or editing the notes in a New/Edit window.
• Preferences set from these menus (or from a context menu in a name or notes field) will override certain global values from System Preferences, will prevail throughout the application, and will persist across launches.
• Spelling preferences are now set via the Spelling and Grammar menu, so the “Check spelling as you type” option has been removed from the Preferences panel.
• The behavior of the ⌘? keyboard shortcut now conforms to current conventions.
• The top and bottom margin settings in Page Setup apparently traded roles several years ago due to a change in system behavior. This has been corrected.
• Page Setup options have been moved to the Print panel, and the Page Setup menu item has been removed from the File menu.
• Settings in the Print panel now persist across print jobs and across launches, except where impractical or inappropriate.
• Printing performance has been improved.

Version 3.3, 31 January 2019

• The application icon is a new design based on the logo of Omicron Software Systems.
• High-resolution button artwork is provided for better appearance on retina displays.
• Another set of priority colors has been added to those available for selection in the Preferences panel (as explained in the FAQ). The colors in this set adapt automatically to Light or Dark Mode in macOS 10.14 (Mojave).
• The Preferences panel now shows an informative message after certain actions.
• The option key reveals a build version and date in the About panel.
• The application is no longer distributed with an accompanying Read Me file. Relevant information therefrom is now available by scrolling down in the About panel.
• Static text links (such as in the About panel) no longer turn purple after having been clicked. Text links in notes still turn purple, but now a less garish shade.
• Restoring the window state at launch time could be slow if a large number of items were selected. This has been fixed.
• When you resize the main window, changes in width will be applied to whichever side you drag.
• In macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) and later, category and to-do item date histories were displayed with proportionally-spaced digits. This was unintentional and has been remedied.
• Changes in font behavior across macOS releases have often affected the size of the application’s priority markers. An attempt has been made to correct this once more.
• The application no longer uses RegexKitLite for processing of regular expressions, but the ICU library remains the underlying mechanism.
• In pathological cases, Find/Replace regular expression matching could take an arbitrarily long time, effectively hanging the application. This has been prevented where possible (El Capitan and later).
• An option has been added for case-insensitive searches in the Prefix and Rename panels.
• The Rename panel is now dismissed only when you click Cancel.
• Certain behaviors of the application can be modified by holding down the shift key. Once upon a time the caps lock key could be used to the same effect, but that is no longer the case.

Version 3.2, 15 December 2018

• The application’s dock tile will now refresh itself after a Dock re-launch.
• Row-highlighting animations for ⌘↑ and ⌘↓ now work properly on macOS 10.14 (Mojave), and are performed more responsively.
• In Mojave, a to-do item search could randomly leave unselected items appearing to be selected. A workaround that should prevent this has been implemented.
• In Mojave’s Dark Mode, the color-reset button that appears in the Preferences panel when the option key is down was failing to hide its background. This has been fixed.
• The application is now built with Apple’s Hardened Runtime.

Version 3.1, 11 December 2018

• Now compatible with macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) through 10.14 (Mojave), with support for Mojave’s Dark Mode.
• Black colors used in ToDo X’s default color-sets are now Dark Mode adaptive. If this does not appear to work as expected, try resetting your color preferences.
• The behavior of the hidden preference HandAlpha has been changed to accommodate Dark Mode.
• ToDo X version 3.0 could exhibit a blank window when launched in Mojave. This has been fixed.

Version 3.0, 1 July 2018

• Built as a 64-bit application compatible with macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) through 10.13 (High Sierra).
• Support for PowerPC and for macOS 10.4 (Tiger) through 10.8 (Mountain Lion) has been dropped. The previous, 32-bit version of ToDo X (2.7) remains available. It is compatible with macOS 10.4 through 10.13 and runs natively on PowerPC or Intel.
• The Print panel now shows a live preview.
• A change in pasteboard behavior sometime after Mavericks broke the ability to drag or paste Mail addresses into ToDo X. This has been fixed.
• The application Help pages now conform to XHTML 1.0 Strict for compatibility with Help Indexer.
• The importer now uses version 3.0.1+ of libical to read “.ics” calendar files.

Version 2.7, 6 August 2016

• There is no longer any shareware fee for ToDo X. The shareware registration mechanism has been removed.

Version 2.6, 23 August 2014

• A Split command has been implemented to split the notes of a selected category or to-do item into pieces, creating a new to-do item from each piece. This is useful if you’ve been keeping a list inside the notes, and decide that you want to promote that list into separate to-do items. (The original notes are unaffected, so experiment with confidence.)
• There are now three window styles available, chosen from a new Window/Style menu. This obsoletes the “Hide buttons & headings” option, which has been eliminated.
• Hiding the headings no longer suppresses the (momentary) display of the number of categories and to-do items.
• ⌘↑ or ⌘↓ will jump to the preceding or following selected row in the currently active list. This is useful for browsing the to-do items selected by a search.
• Command-return or command-enter will open the most recently selected row in the currently active list for editing, without perturbing the selection. This is useful in conjunction with ⌘↑ and ⌘↓.
• Command-double-clicking a selected category or to-do item will likewise open it for editing without perturbing the selection.
• It remains the case that when the option key is down, techniques that normally open a category or to-do item for editing will instead launch any links contained in its name or notes.
• In the Preferences and Print panels you can now check or uncheck an entire set of checkboxes by option-clicking on any one of them.
• Improvements have been made in the dragging and pasting of iTunes items, email addresses (from Mail) and contact groups (from AddressBook or Contacts) into the Things To Do list or the notes in a New/Edit window.
• Dragging a folder into the notes will no longer incur an alert asking if you really want to do that.
• User interface sounds are now played more responsively, and (except in macOS 10.4) will follow the Alert volume and “Play user interface sound effects” settings in System Preferences.
• Button artwork has changed to avoid a visual calamity in macOS 10.10 (Yosemite). It is now invariant across releases.
• The default font for lists and notes is now explicitly Lucida Grande, for the same reason.
• The menu bar status item tries to restrict itself to colors that will remain visible against a light or dark menu bar.
• All menu items now use the ellipsis character in place of dot-dot-dot.
• The replacement string in the Rename panel now defaults to "$0".
• The application Help pages have been updated to HTML 4.01 Strict.
• The app has been signed to make GateKeeper happy.

Version 2.5, 27 June 2014

• A Prefix command has been implemented to allow renaming groups of categories or to-do items in a single operation, by adding or removing a name prefix.
• When the option key is down, the Prefix menu item becomes Rename and offers a more general renaming operation that uses regular expressions.
• Page headers and footers can be customized in Page Setup.
• You can import to-do items from the Stickies application, one per sticky note, as described in the Help.
• The importer now recognizes text clippings and web location files as well. Previously, such items were importable only via drag & drop.
• For certain file types, the importer saves the imported file’s URL in the notes of the newly-created category.
• The importer now uses version 1.0 of libical to read “.ics” calendar files.
• Files can be imported by dragging them to the application’s dock icon, in most cases.
• In macOS 10.9 (Mavericks), the Things To Do list can be searched using Enhanced Dictation.
• An attempt has been made to remedy shrunken priority markers in the status menu. Success will depend on font availability.
• Priority markers in the status menu have been colorized, subject to the “Show status in color” option in the Preferences panel.
• An additional set of priority colors is supplied that may suit those fond of pastels. Color-sets are chosen in the Preferences panel, as explained in the FAQ.
• The “Hide buttons and headings” option now animates its effects.
• The number of categories and to-do items is displayed next to the headings, unless they’re hidden.
• The appearance of the main window can be chosen from a new Window/Texture menu.
• Selecting a row in the Categories list would scroll the list unexpectedly in certain circumstances. This has been fixed.
• Row selection and scroll position are preserved across launches.
• Certain menu items logically associated with the main window are now disabled when the window is closed or miniaturized; although they worked fine, they might have been confusing.
• You can hold down the option key to click on a link in an Edit window without launching it. A performance regression affecting this behavior has been addressed.
• The application’s dock icon badge now conforms in appearance to the norm for whatever release it is running on.
• The application no longer blocks quitting, logging out or shutting down when a New/Edit window is active, unless that window is harboring unsaved changes.
• A system behavior change around the time of macOS 10.7 (Lion) made it possible to click on a New/Edit window even when it was meant to be invisible. This has been addressed.
• Double-clicking on a row in the Categories or Things To Do list should open an Edit window, but in some releases of macOS this was not working when multiple rows were selected. It should now be working properly everywhere.
• A spurious console message that could be generated at launch time on some older macOS releases has been eliminated.
• Printed page numbers now reflect the chosen portion of the document you are printing, rather than always starting at 1.
• The tooltip on the priority buttons in an Edit ToDo Item window has been modified for easier reading.
• Support for the ancient macOS 10.2 (Jaguar) and 10.3 (Panther) has been dropped.

Version 2.4, 20 April 2014

• The warning alert that confirms deletion of a non-empty category now has no default button.
• The warning alert that confirms a dire action, such as deletion of everything, now has a red background.
• The appearance of the main window is now set by control-clicking in the window border area. The “Use textured appearance” option has been removed.
• By default, the application no longer quits automatically when its main window is closed. The old behavior is available as an option.
• A new hidden preference named HideOnEdit causes the main window to hide automatically whenever a New/Edit Item window is active. HideOnEdit is experimental, can be set only via the Terminal, and will not be documented outside this release note.
• In ToDo X version 2.3, choosing an item from the dock or status menu could leave the Edit window inactive. This has been fixed.
• In ToDo X version 2.3, there was a cosmetic issue in dock animation when activating with a miniaturized window. This has been fixed.
• In pre-Leopard releases of macOS (10.4 and earlier) the main window occasionally failed to refresh when reappearing with a modal window in front. This has been fixed.
• Snow Leopard and later releases presume to add items from the Services menu to the context menus of the Categories and Things To Do lists. Such additions have been eliminated, since they were often not appropriate.
• If you are using Apple Mail in macOS 10.4 (Tiger) or later, you can create to-do items from selected email messages using the free Mail to ToDo X AppleScript. This now uses message URLs in favor of file URLs, where possible.

Version 2.3, 11 October 2009

• The Make New ToDo Item service has been tweaked for Snow Leopard so that it will appear in the Services menu when appropriate.
• In Snow Leopard, the main window was not hiding properly if an Edit window was open. This has been fixed.
• The main and Edit windows can fade when auto-hiding, rather than hide instantly. The fade time is controlled by a hidden preference as described in the FAQ.
• The Help menu now contains direct links to various topics covered in the ToDo Help. This feature is disabled in older macOS releases.
• The context menu for setting to-do item priority is grayed out when no items are selected.
• When using Spaces it should now be harder to lose sight of an Edit window.
• The application no longer gets confused about the state of the option key when the user presses or releases it while a menu is active.
• A workaround has been devised for OmniWeb pasteboard behavior that prevented it from working with the Make New ToDo Item service.
• An error message has been revised to reflect changes to the Print panel as of Leopard.
• Support for Unsanity’s Smart Crash Reports has been removed.

Version 2.2, 20 January 2008

• The ability to drag or paste tracks from iTunes into ToDo X has been restored.
• To-do items created by dragging addressbook entries or browser links now include additional information.
• The context menu for setting to-do item priority has been colorized.
• Importing a calendar’s Info.plist file will automatically import all of the associated “.ics” files.
• For drag & drop purposes, a new-style web location file (with a URL in its data fork) will work just like the old style, where the URL was stored in the resource fork.
• Measures have been taken to avoid confusion that might result from errant pasting of a newline into the Name or Key when attempting to register.
• In Leopard, the Print panel now opens showing the application-specific options.
• In Leopard, you can drag an email message from Apple Mail into ToDo X to create a to-do item with a clickable link back to the message.
• A behavior change in Leopard affected the appearance of selected rows in the main window. This has been fixed.
• A behavior change in Leopard affected the appearance of the buttons in the main window. This has been fixed.
• Behavior changes in Leopard affected the display of link tooltips in category and to-do item notes, the ability to select or launch links by control-clicking, and the appearance of the pointing-hand cursor when hovering over a link. These have been fixed.
• In Leopard, notes displayed in a tooltip would disappear too quickly to be read. This has been fixed.
• Leopard font-substitution behavior affected the appearance of the priority markers, leaving them on the small side. This has been fixed, where possible.
• Leopard offers automatic syncing of application preferences. Preferences that it would be inappropriate or harmful to sync have been exempted from this mechanism.
• The position of text in the dock icon badge has been adjusted to accommodate a Leopard change.
• Some tooltips have been tweaked for Leopard, and minor revisions have been made to the Help pages.

Version 2.1, 31 August 2006

• Document margins used in printing can be changed, and page headers and footers can be suppressed. These preferences are accessed by selecting ToDo from the Settings pop-up menu in Page Setup.
• Cosmetic changes have been made to the preferences in the Print panel.
• You can now import a to-do list from a text file, as described in the Help.
• The Edit Category and Edit ToDo Item windows now provide a keyboard shortcut (⌘/) to append a timestamp to the notes. The format of the timestamp can be changed as described in the FAQ.
• For consistency with option-clicking the Checkmark button, option-⌘0 now checks off the selected to-do items with an X.
• If the shift key is down (or caps lock is on) techniques that normally launch a file URL will instead reveal the target in the Finder.
• Holding down the ⌘ key while launching a URL will cause it to be launched in the background.
• The Edit Category and Edit ToDo Item windows now hide only when the main window does.
• The time delay before a search-as-you-type search string disappears can be changed by means of a hidden preference as described in the FAQ.
• The application now dims its dock icon when it is awaiting modal input in the background.
• The confirmation alert for resetting all preferences has been revised.
• A bug that could affect drag & drop text editing of the notes has been fixed.
• In Tiger, if the application was set to not auto-hide and was launched as a hidden login item, then the first time you clicked on its dock icon the window would not appear. This has been fixed.
• ToDo X version 2.0 was a Universal Binary, but marked to run under Rosetta by default because it was still being tested on Intel. Version 2.1 runs natively on both Intel and PowerPC.
• Help pages have been revised to reflect changes made in this release, and to add some hints and tips regarding modifier keys, printing, import and export.
• If you are using Apple Mail in macOS 10.4 (Tiger) or later, you can create to-do items from selected email messages using the free Mail to ToDo X AppleScript.

Version 2.0, 21 January 2006

• The Categories list is no longer sorted automatically, and can be rearranged by dragging. For those who prefer the old behavior a “Sort category names” option has been added to the Preferences panel.
• The dock and status menus now offer a Hybrid menu style, which is a cross between the Simple and Prioritized styles.
• To-do items in the dock and status menus can be ordered by priority, name, creation date or modification date. The main window is always ordered by priority, and there are no plans to change this.
• The status menu now provides tooltips where appropriate. The dock menu does not support this capability.
• You may know that holding down the option key while selecting a to-do item from the dock or status menu will launch any links contained in the selected item’s name or notes. This now works for categories as well (where feasible).
• If the option key is down, any technique that normally opens a category or to-do item for editing now launches its links instead.
• For convenience, the option key no longer alters the behavior of the arrow, home and end keys in navigating the main window.
• Like the home and end keys, control-uparrow and control-downarrow jump to the top and bottom of the current list.
• The Edit menu now offers text completion, where supported, with a keyboard shortcut of option-escape.
• It is now possible, though inconvenient, to use character palettes for entering search strings. ⌘G will be helpful if you are trying to enter a multi-character search string in this way.
• In macOS 10.4 and later, the font selection panel will refrain from displaying properties that we don’t support, such as colors and shadows.
• The registration reminder item will be removed automatically following successful registration, provided that it has not been modified.
• Support has been added for Unsanity’s Smart Crash Reports.
• You can now print specific categories or to-do items using the context menu of the Categories or Things To Do list.
• Print operations now show a progress panel, if running in macOS 10.4 or later.
• A bug that prevented editing of custom paper size names in Page Setup has been fixed.
• A print-scaling bug in Tiger has been fixed as of macOS 10.4.3, allowing headers and footers again to be printed regardless of scaling factor.
• This release includes an untested native Intel binary, for experimental purposes only. The app is marked to launch under Rosetta by default.
• ToDo X now requires macOS 10.2 or later.

Version 1.9.1, 22 July 2005

• Worked around a bug in macOS 10.3 (fixed in Tiger) that can cause ToDo X version 1.9 to die when you click on its status menu in certain circumstances.

Version 1.9, 20 July 2005

• The Categories and Things To Do lists now have context menus so that you can right-click (or control-click) to create new items, change priorities, and so on.
• A “Make New ToDo Item” service has been implemented. It creates a new to-do item in your topmost category from the selected text, Mail address, file, URL or to-do item. The default category can be changed as described in the FAQ.
• A status item is now provided in the menu bar. It is similar to the application’s dock menu, as described in the Help, and can be controlled through the Preferences panel. This feature is available when running in macOS 10.3 or later.
• A “Show status in color” option has been added to the Preferences panel. Turn this off if you prefer the status item to appear in black & white.
• The formerly-hidden “Warn before deletion” option is now controllable through the Preferences panel. You should probably leave it turned on and just use the option key when you don’t want to be warned.
• A textured window appearance is now the default, but you can turn it off in the Preferences panel if you don’t like it.
• There are now several different priority color schemes available for selection in the Preferences panel, and they can all be customized.
• The Reset button in the Preferences panel now resets only the preferences from the currently-selected tab. Option-Reset offers a more comprehensive reset, and requires confirmation.
• Minor revisions have been made to the Fonts tab of the Preferences panel, for clarity.
• All buttons in the Preferences panel that have alternate behaviors when the option key is down now reflect that in their appearance and tooltips.
• Error sheets are no longer used with New/Edit windows. They were clumsy, problematical and unnecessary.
• To avoid confusion, certain items of the File and Edit menus are now disabled when an auxiliary window is frontmost.
• A cosmetic issue that occurred when dragging items from one copy of ToDo X to another has been fixed.
• A performance issue that affected editing of very large notes in Tiger has been fixed.
• The ToDo menu now includes a “Send Feedback” item to send email to the nomicro.com support address, using your default email client.

Version 1.8, 11 May 2005

• You can drag (or paste) web location files, email addresses and addressbook entries into category or to-do item notes to create clickable links. In earlier versions of ToDo X you could drag such things into the main window to create new items, but you couldn’t drag them directly into the notes.
• A case where addresses dragged (or pasted) from Mail.app might have been rejected has been eliminated.
• During a search-as-you-type, the delete key acts like a backspace instead of offering to delete the selected items.
• New/Edit window positions are now preserved.
• New/Edit windows ignore attempts to change font attributes using the font panel, and the Font sub-menu has been eliminated from the context menu. (Fonts are intended to be chosen in the Preferences.)
• The version of iCal delivered in Tiger uses a new naming scheme for its calendar files. The importer has been tweaked to accommodate this change. Note that iCal now stores calendar files in subfolders of ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources.
• If an imported to-do item has a due date, that date will be prepended to the item name (thereafter being treated as simply part of the name). This does not presage any move towards calendar-based functionality in future releases.
• You can hold down the option key to highlight the categories to which the currently selected to-do items belong.
• While you are editing or confirming deletion of a to-do item, the categories to which it belongs will be highlighted automatically, except where obvious.
• Option-click on the Edit Item button to launch any links contained in the selected item’s name or notes. Likewise for the Edit Category button.
• Option-click on the New Item button to create a to-do item at priority 1 instead of the default priority chosen in the Preferences. (Or at priority 9 if your default is 1.)
• All buttons in the main window that have alternate behaviors when the option key is down now reflect that in their appearance and tooltips.
• If the standard font for the dock tile’s item count is missing, a substitute will be used.
• When you paste a list of category or item names into a plain-text document, the trailing return character formerly supplied is now omitted. The return was generally inconvenient when invoking a service or dragging into a text field.
• The drag & drop cursor is now more responsive to changes in the control and option key modifiers during a drag.
• CString methods slated for deprecation are no longer used in processing of webloc and resource files.
• A Tiger compatibility issue affecting mouse clicks within the text of a to-do item’s notes has been fixed.
• A Tiger compatibility issue affecting the printing of headers and footers has been fixed, in part. Until a complete solution is devised, headers and footers will be printed in Tiger only if the output is scaled to 100%.
• Minor tweaks have been made to the application icon, still defiantly vanilla.
• Minor revisions have been made to the Help pages.
• You can hold down the option key while selecting ToDo Help to display help in your web browser instead of in Help Viewer.

Version 1.7, 3 October 2004

• URLs in category or to-do item notes are now clickable links. To click on a link without launching it, hold down the option key, or click and drag.
• Clickable links can represent web pages, email addresses, documents, folders, applications, addressbook entries, or any other kind of URL supported on your system.
• An option-double-click on a category or to-do item in the main window will launch any links contained in its name or notes.
• An email address can be dragged from Mail to the ToDo window to create a new item. In 10.3 or later a clickable (mailto:) link will result.
• If buttons and headings are hidden, search-as-you-type will display its search string in an alternate location at the top of the ToDo window.
• Clicking on the date history in the bottom-left corner of an Edit Category or Edit ToDo Item window will append a timestamp to the notes. The format of the timestamp is now controlled by two hidden preferences (one for clicking, one for option-clicking) that can be changed as described in the FAQ.
• The About ToDo panel is now consistent with the application’s other panels in its background hiding and clickable link appearance.
• Items can no longer be created via drag & drop when any modal window is up.
• It was possible for a category or to-do item window to be frontmost while the main window was key. This has been fixed.
• The ability to export to-do lists to an iPod using ToDo X to iPod Notes is now mentioned in the FAQ.

Version 1.6, 9 August 2004

• A completed to-do item can now display an X instead of a checkmark. In all other respects it will behave and be treated like any other checked-off item. Option-click on the Checkmark button to apply an X to the selected items.
• Option-click on the Priority Up or Priority Down button to set the priority of the selected to-do items to 1 (maximum) or 9 (minimum), respectively.
• A Safari URL or bookmark can be dragged to the ToDo window to create a new item. This will work with some other browsers as well.
• A cross-platform URL shortcut file can be dragged to the ToDo window to create a new item. (This has worked with text clippings and webloc files since 1.5.)
• An Address Book entry can be dragged to the ToDo window to create a new item. This will be more useful once clickable links are implemented.
• For conformance with Apple human interface guidelines, dragging an item to a different category no longer switches you to the item’s new location. To obtain the old behavior you can hold down the shift key while dragging.
• The minimum window width has been reduced.
• Print scaling should now behave as expected, changing font size but not layout.
• Print headers and footers now attempt to avoid clipping on printers having wide margins.
• To omit some or all of a to-do item’s notes from a printed list, insert the string “§§§” into the notes following the portion to be printed. The “§” or Section sign can be typed as option-6.
• Tooltips have been added or improved in the Edit windows, font preferences panel and registration panel.
• The Help menu now includes an “Ask Us” item to send email to the nomicro.com support address, using your default email client.
• An alert will be displayed at launch time if the to-do data file is in use by another copy of the application.
• The keypad Home and End buttons jump to the top and bottom of the current list.
• You can now select a category in the dock menu, when using “Grouped” menu style.
• Home, End and ⌘G have been added to the Keyboard Shortcuts help page.
• Items can no longer be created via drag & drop when an Edit window is up. (The ability to do that was unintentional.)
• The URL in the registration panel now looks and behaves like a browser link.
• Horizontal text alignment in the Things To Do list has been improved subtly.
• Item names are cached to improve scrolling performance in the Things To Do list. The effect is not dramatic, but becomes noticeable for lists of several hundred items.
• Added an item to the FAQ listing the application’s required fonts.
• Added an item to the FAQ describing how to change the list font in the main window.
• ToDo X version 1.6 has not yet been localized; version 1.5 remains available for those who need it.

Version 1.5, 29 January 2004

• German UI localization courtesy of Magnus Rembold.
• To-do lists can now be imported from iCal or any other application that generates an industry-standard “.ics” file. (iCal data files are in ~/Library/Calendars.)
• The legacy, native and ics importers preserve creation and modification dates where possible, and automatically select the newly-created categories.
• Additional data hardening measures and preference consistency checks have been implemented.
• The Preferences menu item now has a key equivalent.
• Searches now use the Find pasteboard. ⌘G repeats the previous search.
• Shift-tab can now be used to toggle between the Name and Notes fields of a to-do item or category window.
• The dock menu can list items hierarchically by priority.
• Deleting an item no longer leaves nothing selected.
• Dropping a text clipping onto a category or to-do list now creates an item containing the contents of the clipping, not the pathname of the file as before. This works for web location files also.
• Several minor improvements have been made in the French translation, courtesy of Jacques Letellier and Mathieu Schneider.
• The confirmation dialog for deleting a non-empty category now beeps and cannot be suppressed.
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the application from launching if required fonts were missing.
• Fixed a font substitution problem that sometimes caused shrunken priority markers or an incorrectly-spaced first line in printed output (seen only with Asian fonts installed).
• Added a launch-time check to prevent multiple copies of the application from fighting over the same data file.
• Fixed a Panther compatibility issue that could cause the application to be unresponsive to keystrokes or mouse-clicks when launched at login, especially if launched hidden.
• Fixed a Panther compatibility issue that sometimes caused text in the notes to appear dark or fuzzy.
• Fixed a Panther compatibility issue that prevented the online help from appearing in Help Viewer.
• Added an item to the FAQ about changing the window texture.

Version 1.4, 29 September 2003

• Dutch localization by Jurjen N.E. Bos.
• An alternate sorting technique (which makes it easier to influence the order of the Categories and Things To Do lists) can be selected by means of a hidden preference as described in the FAQ. This preference will probably be made accessible via the UI in a later release.
• A console message generated by debug code in version 1.3 has been eliminated.
• Import of data from the “ToDo!” desk accessory can now handle items with empty names.

Version 1.3, 20 April 2003

• French localization by Jacques Letellier.
• Some internal changes have been made to facilitate localization.
• The transparency of the pointing-hand character for items without notes can be changed by means of a hidden preference as described in the FAQ.

Version 1.2, 20 January 2003

• During a search-as-you-type, your search string will be displayed next to the Things To Do heading.
• ⌘+ and ⌘- act as key equivalents for the Priority Up and Priority Down buttons.
• Line spacing in the main window has been improved subtly.
• The Enter key presses the OK button in a New/Edit Category or New/Edit Item window.
• The color selection panel now includes an opacity slider.
• Additional print options, designed to provide more compact output, are now available. They are accessed from the Print panel by selecting ToDo in the Copies & Pages pop-up. An option to print checkboxes for manual checking-off of items has also been added.
• Additional factory color-sets (including one that makes the priority markers invisible) have been devised. Factory color-sets are chosen via a hidden button in the Preferences panel, as explained in the FAQ.
• A Fonts tab has been added to the Preferences panel to allow selection of fonts for display and printing.
• When you paste (or drag & drop) categories or to-do items into an application that accepts rich text, your printing options and font choices will be used to format the result. This was true in earlier releases, except that notes were always pasted; now you can choose whether or not to do so. (However, notes will never be pasted if the target application requires plain text.)
• A “Hide buttons and headings” option has been added to the Preferences panel. If you select this option you will lose the search string display and tooltips for category/item counts, but you can still perform all operations using mouse and keyboard.
• A “Use textured appearance” option has been added to the Preferences panel. This provides a textured border in the main window to relieve the tedium of stripes, but it works only in 10.2 or later.
• A “Check spelling as you type” option has been added to the Preferences panel.
• The Reset button in the Preferences panel has been moved to reduce the likelihood of accidentally clicking it by reflex.
• When you switch between the Categories and Things To Do lists using the tab or left/right arrow keys, if there is nothing selected in the target list an appropriate row will be selected automatically.

Version 1.1.1, 6 January 2003

• Fixed a bug that caused a change of dock menu style not to take effect until the next launch.

Version 1.1, 6 January 2003

• When no categories are selected, the Things To Do list will now optionally show items from all categories. Formerly we would have shown an empty list, which might be logical but is not particularly useful.
• Selecting a to-do item from the application’s dock menu will open the item for editing. Selecting an item from the menu while holding down the ⌘ key will check-off the item.
• The application’s dock menu now shows the priority of a to-do item in addition to its name.
• The application’s dock menu now optionally groups to-do items by category. The desired dock menu style is itself selected from the dock menu.
• New Category and New Item menu items have been added to the Edit menu, with key equivalents of shift-⌘N and ⌘N, respectively.
• The behavior of ⌘N has changed: formerly it created either a new category or a new to-do item depending on which list was current; now it creates a new to-do item regardless, and shift-⌘N creates a new category.
• Clicking on the date history in the bottom-left corner of an Edit Category or Edit ToDo Item window will append a timestamp to the notes. The format of the timestamp is controlled by a hidden preference that can be changed as described in the FAQ. (The same format is used for short dates elsewhere in the application as well.)
• Category and item notes displayed as tooltips are now constrained to a reasonable size and are word-wrapped.
• Deletion warnings can be suppressed through the use of a hidden preference as described in the FAQ, although this is not recommended.
• Page setup and print options are now saved across launches.
• Additional print options, including the ability to group items by category, are now available. They are accessed from the Print panel by selecting ToDo in the Copies & Pages pop-up. The existing “Print notes” option has been moved there from the Preferences panel.
• An additional import format has been implemented. Data can now be imported from a ToDo X plist file, such as another user’s to-do list or a backup copy of ~/Library/Preferences/com.nomicro.ToDo.plist.
• Added tooltips for the Categories and Things To Do list headings to display the number of categories and to-do items, respectively.
• Added code to perform category ID consistency checks at launch time and repair problems.
• Fixed a cosmetic problem with button highlighting under Jaguar.
• Fixed a bug that caused an extra blank page to be printed at the end of a report when the last page was exactly full.
• Fixed a couple of obscure bugs involving pasting of categories.
• Added Help page explaining dock icon and dock menu behavior. Added words about backup to the Import/Export page. Revised the Printing page to reflect new options.
• Added FAQ entries regarding tooltips, timestamps, drag & drop vs. auto-hide, backing up the to-do list, and suppression of deletion warnings.

Version 1.0, 15 November 2002

• First public release.
• Added a direct FAQ link to the ToDo Help page.
• Enabled registration capability.
• Added a Close button to the Preferences panel to reduce the likelihood of accidentally clicking the Reset button by reflex.
• Worked around a Jaguar change that sometimes caused ToDo to exit prematurely when launched as a hidden Login Item.
• Adjusted text position in dock icon badge to accommodate a Jaguar change.
• Worked around a Jaguar Interface Builder change regarding auto-hide of panels.
• Worked around a Jaguar change in beginSheetForDirectory behavior that affected Import.

Version 0.3, 31 October 2002

• Made cosmetic changes to Help text to accommodate new Help Viewer behavior in Jaguar.
• Eliminated the splitview thumb from the main window for esthetic reasons. (Pre-Jaguar, an AppKit bug prevented this from appearing anyway.)
• Switched to use of the “Pop” sound for a matched search. The sound formerly used is not present in a standard Jaguar distribution.

Version 0.2, 8 October 2002

• Reduced minimum vertical size of main window to the smallest possible (any smaller and the scroll bar fails to display properly).
• Added option-⌘H keyboard shortcut for Hide Others, per Jaguar Human Interface Guidelines.
• Tweaked startup code to stop the dock icon from bouncing as early as possible. When the application was invoked as a login item it was bouncing for a long time (in pre-Jaguar releases), which was most distracting. This change does not make the application ready any sooner, but reduces the annoyance.
• Added tooltips to display category and to-do item notes. This feature is controlled by a new Preferences option that is turned off by default, because it can be annoying, and because it drastically slows down scrolling of the Categories and Things To Do lists.
• Added Help pages for Import/Export and Release Notes.

Version 0.1, 30 August 2002

• First beta release.