{"slug": "claude-code-todo-list-the-day-i-stopped-rebuilding-it-from-memory", "title": "Claude Code todo list: the day I stopped rebuilding it from memory", "summary": "A developer built Vondet, a task board that Claude writes to over MCP, after losing track of a Claude Code todo list spread across conflicting planning documents. The board lets Claude record goals, tasks and reasons in one place, with each conversation adding to a single plan rather than spawning a new summary, and it tracks progress day by day. The account is explicitly subjective and based on the developer's own experience.", "body_md": "A while ago, I was building another project in Claude Code. Vibe coding had surprised me; I could build an app myself, so I started a service.\n\nThe first features came together quickly, and using them, I kept thinking of new ideas. I laid out a development roadmap toward a beta release, and the work went smoothly.\n\nBut the more concrete the service became, the more there was to think about. I would tell Claude Code what I had noticed and work out a new strategy. Then I noticed something else, told it, and worked out another, and the planning documents kept piling up.\n\nA beta plan, a v1 plan, a development plan v0.5, a next-milestone plan v0.1.\n\nEventually, I could no longer see where things stood.\n\nHow much of the beta plan was done? What was left, and in which planning document? Which parts contradicted each other?\n\nOnce the plan branches, a Claude Code todo list tends to end up living in your memory. For me, it became hard to know where to start.\n\nEach piece of work raised new problems, so new tasks kept appearing. When I moved to another plan before finishing one, I lost track of how far anything had got. Across my documents, priority was what contradicted most often. Asking Claude Code to sort it all out again only added one more list, and before I knew it, I was holding my Claude Code todo list together from memory.\n\nI wanted to make my conversations with Claude visible, and that is where Vondet came from. At first, I did not even know what to record; I kept trying things, kept using it myself, and kept fixing it.\n\nThe day I stopped rebuilding my Claude Code todo list from memory, and started reading the board instead. From that day on, my conversations with Claude began to change, little by little. Today I leave much of it to the board, and I talk with Claude, pick the task that matters most, and move it forward.\n\n[Vondet](https://vondet.com/en/?ref=devto) is a board Claude writes to, connected over MCP, the shared method Claude uses to work with outside tools. There is no box for writing a plan from scratch; Claude writes the goals, the tasks, and the reasons.\n\nWhen you ask for a tidy-up, every conversation leaves a fresh summary. With the board connected, each conversation adds to a single plan instead, and you just keep talking as usual.\n\nThe board is what the two of you point at when the plan comes up. Claude points at a move, and you open it when you want to change it.\n\n*Figure 1. Left: a few planning documents, priorities that disagree, and three questions you can only answer from memory. Right: Claude writes to one board, and the two of you point at the same place.*\n\nWith the board connected, Claude can:\n\nIn the example on our front page, you ask Claude to fix a double charge on an order form. Claude writes the task and its reason to the board before starting the fix, and leaves the undecided monthly price under Waiting on you.\n\n*The one decision Claude cannot make, left where both of you can see it. Images show a demo project.*\n\nAfter three days away, the board opens on how much moved, day by day, drawn as a chart. When you disagree with a call, tell Claude while you look at the board. Claude rewrites the call with its reasons, and the earlier call stays on record.\n\n*How much is done and how much remains, day by day. Images show a demo project.*\n\nIn a repository, register a board token in Claude Code; for the Claude app, use Connect with permission. The guide has the steps: [signing up](https://vondet.com/en/help/signin?ref=devto), [connecting your AI](https://vondet.com/en/help/connect?ref=devto), and [when connecting does not work](https://vondet.com/en/help/connect-trouble?ref=devto).\n\n*Two ways to connect: a token for a repository, or permission for the Claude app. No token is shown. Images show a demo project.*\n\nThis article is based on my own experience and is subjective; nothing in it was measured objectively.\n\nIf you have one repository, one person writing, and work that ends within a few conversations, a file is enough, and you do not need to connect a board.\n\nNext time you come back after a few days, can you say right away how much is done, what is left, and what contradicts what? Open a new conversation, paste nothing, and ask Claude Code those three questions.\n\nIf its answers and your memory disagree, try keeping the answers to those three questions in one place.\n\nRelated: [Building a Claude Code handoff, and measuring what it carries](https://vondet.com/en/blog/claude-code-handoff?ref=devto)\n\n*This post was written with AI assistance from my own notes and experience, and reviewed by me. It was first published on [vondet.com](https://vondet.com/en/blog/claude-code-todo-list?ref=devto).*\n\n*I build Vondet, the board described here.*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-todo-list-the-day-i-stopped-rebuilding-it-from-memory", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/vondet/claude-code-todo-list-the-day-i-stopped-rebuilding-it-from-memory-4e56", "published_at": "2026-10-15 17:34:50+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-15 17:55:04.175321+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-tools", "agent-protocols", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "Vondet", "Claude", "MCP"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-todo-list-the-day-i-stopped-rebuilding-it-from-memory", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-todo-list-the-day-i-stopped-rebuilding-it-from-memory.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-todo-list-the-day-i-stopped-rebuilding-it-from-memory.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-code-todo-list-the-day-i-stopped-rebuilding-it-from-memory.jsonld"}}