#1

Use case or problem

Obsidian has a very nice method of creating lists, checkboxes and ticked checkboxes. Select some text, hit Ctrl+Enter one to three times and go on with your life.

Hitting Ctrl+Enter a fourth time unchecks the previously checked checkbox back to an empty one. But it is currently not possible to easily go back to a bullet point. Instead, one indefinitely cycles between checked and unchecked status of the box again.

Proposed solution

When hitting Ctrl+Enter a fifth time, we should go back to a normal bullet point. I guess cycling through it and wrapping back to the beginning?

Current workaround (optional)

Currently, none, as far as I know.

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#2

The Hotkeys++ plug in has a “Toggle To Do Lists” Hotkey that does what you want. It Shifts between BulletPoint/CheckedBox/UncheckedBox.

#3

Well. this sucks.

The title is correct, but I fucked up in the body of the question, and cannot edit it anymore.

The plugin does exactly 50% of what I would like it to do. It integrates the normal

  • bullet point

into the cycle. So with the plugin it now goes

Text → unchecked box → checked box → bullet point → unchecked box → checked box → bullet point → …

However, as I described in the title (and unfortunately not the text itself), every time I hit enter I’d like to be able to go

text → bullet point → unchecked box → checked box → text → bullet point → …

so that one can easily convert something back to normal text again. However, even with the plugin, once you’ve converted away from normal text, you cannot easily revert to it again.