Currently, as far as I know, to „tick” the checkbox in the preview mode, you have to switch to source mode, find the checkbox, replace space with x, then go back to preview. Is there a way to automate this? Maybe there are plans to add such a feature?
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The rendered MD is HTML. I don’t know if it really shows checkboxes or only something that looks like them. In any case, there‘s no way to „reverse“ render an HTML to MD, which would be needed to make changes stick.
And MD does not provide for input elements. So, no, you can’t check checkboxes outside of the edit view.
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Is there another way to do this then?
It is annoying.
No. This is markdown, not a server-backed HTML document. If you want clickable checkboxes that preserve state, you could try formatted notes. Or a program like todoist.
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Thanks, that’s helpful
Ah, iOS Shortcuts won’t make a Formatted Note.
I use a shortcut to make a daily to do checklist in markdown.
It works very well, but Shortcuts won’t change it to a Formatted Note.
There’s also no checkboxes visible in a Formatted Note in iOS.
As this thread is running in the DT section, not in DTTG, I assumed we were talking DT and macOS.
I suggest using a Todo app for a todo list.
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