Simple Task Management

Ideas Feature Requests
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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

As an indipendant developer organizing a project, I want to organize prds/tasks/user stories that relate to any given project by heierarchy directly in my file broswer window. And I want the agent to have access to that hierarchy. So that I can easily log and categorize items for later development quickly, without needing to rely on a file name, or a nested structure.

Operating System (if it applies)

MacOS

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Hey, thanks for the feature request. The idea makes sense: a native, hierarchical layer for PRDs, tasks, and user stories right in the file explorer that the agent can access, without relying on file names or nested folders.

Right now we don’t have this as a first-class feature. What you can use today that partly covers the need:

  • Plan mode creates a structured task plan plan.md that stays in the repo and is readable by the agent: Plan Mode | Cursor Docs
  • The agent can read any files in the project, so a markdown tree with PRDs and tasks already works as context if you keep it in the repo.

As a near-term workaround for this exact use case, a Kanban or task manager inside Cursor, check out the community extension Todo2: 🚀 Just launched Todo2 on the Cursor Marketplace – an AI project manager that lives inside your code editor. No more context-switching to plan or research tasks – it’s all in Cursor now!. It’s a third-party solution, but a lot of users use it to organize tasks right in the IDE.

I’ve logged the request, and we’ll keep the thread open in Feature Requests so others can upvote. Related ideas are already being discussed here: Kanban for tasks. If you can share details on what the UI should look like, grouping, nesting, and how the agent should see it, please add that to the thread, it helps us judge demand.