You can keep quick, short-lived personal TODOs as empty commits in the current git branch (original tweet): todo() { git commit --allow-empty -m "TODO: $*" } <i>You can save this either as a shell function or git-todo executable.</i> Use it like so from the command line: todo Check if feature X works under edge-case This records an empty commit prefixed with "TODO". This way git log will remind yo