diff --git a/pd/nw/todo.txt b/pd/nw/todo.txt
index b459595b2ba2373d482631dec96e922648f2a4eb..21f53f35c88f3f48c75ec9476862caa516cd99a1 100644
--- a/pd/nw/todo.txt
+++ b/pd/nw/todo.txt
@@ -312,6 +312,9 @@ Everything else: (A [x] means we've fixed it)
     the [group] inlet to always stay at the left so that the two behave the
     same.
     to always be the rightmost outlet
+[ ] don't implement tooltips until we have a single call to create an object
+    plus all xlets. That way we can add an arg or two for the name and dir
+    to find the help patch and get all descriptions in one goy
 
 Crashers
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