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Google Docs has introduced checklists alongside unordered and ordered lists. The keyboard shortcut to start a checklist is CTRL + SHIFT + 9. Blew my mind when
by zomglings 5y ago
Google Docs has introduced checklists alongside unordered and ordered lists.
The keyboard shortcut to start a checklist is CTRL + SHIFT + 9.
Blew my mind when a friend told me about this.
Edit: Also, for software teams, GitHub supports checklists on their issues/PRs. My team has written a bot which blocks PRs until all checks are checked off. It's been pretty fantastic.
- RheingoldRiver 5y agoThe markdown in github is damned annoying, though, it's whitespace-sensitive in THREE separate places (after the dash, between the brackets, after the brackets) - and then when you are saying "I did this" you have to add the x and delete the space between the brackets. I realize it sounds nitpicky but if you're really using checklists for everything then micro UX like this matters. (I'm sort of hoping someone corrects me on this point & I find out a better way to use it because I do love the functionality, in theory, I just find myself never bothering to check off anything is completed.)
- lmm 5y agoI think it's meant to be used from the web UI where you just click the box rather than replacing the space between the square brackets with an x.
- zomglings 5y agoI've also found this behavior annoying. There should be no difference between "-[]", "- []", and "- [ ]". There should be no difference between "- [x]" and "- [ x ]". The solution we came up with is, for people who want to use the Web UI, GitHub has clickable checklists. For people who don't like the Web UI, we have commands. To create a check: @bugout-dev check require <message> To mark it as complete: @bugout-dev check accept <message>