Vim outliner is an outliner tool. As the name implies you can write outlines with it, but with this particular one you can also create todo lists. A todo list can be created without much effort.

First open your todo file, todo.otl for example. By using the otl extension, Vim outliner will be loaded automatically.

Next, type a task you have to do in the future. This could something like write blog post about Vim outliner. Remember, because this is Vim, you have to type i to start insert mode.

write blog post about Vim outliner

Then type ,,cb this will insert a checkbox in front the current line. Which will make the line look like this:

[_] write blog post about Vim outliner

So now you start writing the blog post. When you’re done after a few minutes (about 30min). You can check of the item on the list. Do this by typing ,,cx. Your file will look like this now:

[X] write blog post about Vim outliner

And this concludes this first How To blog post about Vim outliner.

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