Importing .md with indented task lists

[dorich]

A markdown file with a parent/child set of tasks “ Task Name” renders the children/indented items with open boxes “[ ]”.
The file came from ChatGTP.
ChatGTP suggests that the problem is caused because DEVONthink using “Multimarkdown” and not “CommonMark”.
However, when I create a md file and then manually add the parent and child they render correctly.

For my imported file I solved the problem by converting the top layer to markdown headings and then the children rendered correctly.

I’m posting this only to verify that the behavior is expected for imported files and to ask is there is a way to get the correct rendering without having to work around by changing the Parent level headings.

Thanks

[BLUEFROG]

ChatGTP suggests that the problem is caused because DEVONthink using “Multimarkdown” and not “CommonMark”.

It’s not a problem, yes it’s expected, and yes, DEVONthink has used MultiMarkdown for years now.

… and to ask is there is a way to get the correct rendering without having to work around by changing the Parent level headings.

1. Ask via DEVONthink 4’s Chat assistant, e.g., in the Chat popover.
2. Tell ChatGPT to use MultiMarkdown.

And you can be just as specific in DT4, remembering specificity is best…

[troejgaard]

It’s probably formatted incorrectly. Indented task lists work fine for me:

It would help if you showed the raw markdown source.
Since the forum software also uses markdown, put it in a code block so it doesn’t get converted (enclose it in 3 backticks ``` on the lines before and after) or post a screenshot.

[dorich]

Thanks for your response

Problem Solved

The initial response was like this

But I added two more spaces to the indent and the file presents correctly

[dorich]

Thanks.