Tracking project-specific tasks is something I've changed many times over the years. I've tried apps like Taskwarrior (which I loved), using in-line TODO comments throughout my code and collecting them with something like magit-todos, to now just a strategically-named plain org file I can just spawn when I need it. And recently I got a bug to try something new. I'm writing this post in parallel of me trying to implement it so it follows my train of thought and trials.

For as long as I can remember, I've tried to find a workflow that fits in my brain. I have usually settled with a massive ~/code directory, as we do, and try to manually manage the directories for whatever I'm working on. Often times I'd have multiple related projects cloned that would have to be merged together. Over time, this ends up being a massive, unmaintainable mess where I have to periodically spend time investigating old project directories and try to remember if anything in there was important before I blew it away to prune down the sheer amount of projects that have built up.