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As a programmer myself, I usually use the word 'todo' when I comment something on my code. The word is descriptive enough on that purpose, but I can hardly come up with any alternative words for it that I should use for a more formal usage (like presentations or reports).

More specifically, what I want to find is the alternative word that I can use instead of TODO on the presentation slide that looks like this;

* TODOs
  - Fix bugs on line X.
  - Improve the algorithm.

We usually use the word 'action items' to enumerate the tasks that are left to be solved, but is there any other alternative that is presumably less verbose or, even better, a single word?

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  • I'm not too sure about what you asked, can you give us more context?
    – Kaique
    Mar 11, 2019 at 2:03
  • There is no such word as todo. There is a noun to-do (which means noisy and confused activity), and you can use to-do list, where to-do acts as an adjective. In your example, I would have headed it Things To Do.
    – Jason Bassford
    Mar 11, 2019 at 2:31
  • @Kyle I added some details
    – Gwangmu Lee
    Mar 11, 2019 at 2:33
  • @JasonBassford Actually I guess it's not a real word but sort of a dialect that's only used by computer people.
    – Gwangmu Lee
    Mar 11, 2019 at 2:34
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    I use TODO for for missing code or features and FIXME for errors and problems that should be solved. For a presentation I would use something like Open Topics.
    – knut
    Mar 11, 2019 at 11:39

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If it is to be presented to other coders / programmers, especially if they are part of the project, then leave it as it is - they know exactly what it means.

Also it is a term easily searched for and found when working through the code to correct the code.

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