When working on a project, it's often needed to create a list of tasks for yourself or your team mates. While usually these tasks are described in an issue tracker like YouTrack, some tasks are either too small or too code-specific to describe in an issue tracker. In such a case, adding TODO comments in source code makes sense.
create several filters, which you will use to show the TODO items, say, for each of the developers, and not for your good self. For this purpose, in the Filters section, click , and specify the filter names, for example, For John, For Bob, and not for me. Associate these filters with the patterns:
Now, in the source code, create TODO items: in the line of code, where you want to add a note, press Ctrl+Slash, or Ctrl+Shift+Slash, and type TODO that matches one of the patterns, followed by some meaningful description: