TodoList Importance

Part of TodoList to a todo product, built on completion. A list with no way to say what matters first leaves the reader to scan every row for it.

How it works

TodoListItem has isImportant?: true, present only on a starred todo, so an item nobody starred carries no key and a list saved before importance existed parses as it is.

• The star trails every row, in UiList's actions slot beside the row's button: a UiIconButton toggle named Important with aria-pressed, filled in the accent while set, as the resource explorer's favourite star is. A click sets or clears it through the store's toggleImportant, with nothing to confirm; a refused save puts back what it was, unless another device's save was adopted mid-flight, whose value then stands. The row's context menu holds the same toggle as Mark as important or Remove importance, and the edit dialog shows the star beside the name, saved with the rest of the form.
• The Sort menu is an overflow menu beside the search, its sorts a group of radios so the one in use shows as soon as it opens: My order (the default, the items array), Importance (starred first), Due date (soonest first, undated last), Alphabetically (by title, in the reader's locale) and Creation date (newest first, from the createdAt every item already carries). These are Microsoft To Do's sorts that need no field beyond the star; its Added to My Day belongs to smart lists.
• A sort is a view, never a rewrite. sortTodoListItems returns a sorted copy and every sort is stable, so todos it ranks alike keep the list's own order, and choosing My order again gives back exactly the order the list holds. Each list remembers its sort in the viewer's own localStorage (LocalStorageKey.TodoListSort), never in the content.
• The Completed section ignores the sort and stays newest completion first.

What is deliberately not in it

• No priority levels. Todoist has four; a star is one bit and answers the one question a lean list asks — what to do first. A second level is a second decision on every todo.
• No Important smart list — it spans every list (smart lists).
• No reverse sort. To Do can flip a sort's direction; each sort here reads the one way its question is asked — soonest, newest, starred first — and a flip waits for a reader who asks for it.

Key files

Sources

• Microsoft To Do — steps, importance, notes — starring a task and sorting a list by importance to bring starred tasks to the top.
• Microsoft To Do — sort and search in lists — "organize your list by Importance, Due date, Added to My Day, Alphabetically or Creation date", which fixes the Sort menu's options.