Creates a really quick To Do list in a notepad file, just when you want to make some notes for things to get done today

New-ToDoList

function New-ToDo {
    <#
    .SYNOPSIS
    Creates quick To Do list in Notepad
    
    .DESCRIPTION
    Creates quick To Do list in Notepad
    
    .PARAMETER List
    comma separated list of items to put in to do list
    
    .EXAMPLE
    New-ToDo
    
    .EXAMPLE
    New-ToDo -List "Write todo function", "Update calendar" , "Book travel", "submit expenses claim", "cook dinner"
    
    .NOTES
    General notes
    #>
    
    [cmdletbinding()]
    param(
        # semi-colon separated list of items to put in to do list
        [parameter(ValueFromRemainingArguments = $True)]
        [string[]]$List
    )
    # split out the items we have been sent
    $items = $List -split (';')
    
    # pad the ToDo items to 5 items with empty lines
    if ($items.count -lt 5) {
        $items.count..5 | ForEach-Object { $items += "" }
    }
    
    # set up header of list
    $txt = @"
To do list - {0:dd MMM yyyy}`r`n
"@ -f (get-date)

# add the items to the doc
    foreach ($Item in $items) {
        $txt += @"
[]`t$Item`r`n
"@
    }

    # add the footer (Done) section
    $txt += @"
`r`n** Done **`r`n
"@

# create the file and display
    $file = New-TemporaryFile
    $txt | set-content $file
    notepad $file
}