# Cycle through bullet points, checklist and characters using CTRL+ENTER

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cycle-through-bullet-points-checklist-and-characters-using-ctrl-enter/92761>\
**Category:** Help\
**Tags:** hotkeys\
**Created:** [December 5, 2024, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cycle-through-bullet-points-checklist-and-characters-using-ctrl-enter/92761 "2024-12-05T08:12:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Postbag](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Postbag](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Postbag)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 8:12am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cycle-through-bullet-points-checklist-and-characters-using-ctrl-enter/92761/1 "2024-12-05T08:12:38Z")

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### What I’m trying to do

I want to use CTRL+ENTER to cycle through different characters at the start of a sentence in a similar matter that it cycles through creating a checkbox and bullet point. I thought this would be a great way to add the characters required for the Callout Lists plugin ([GitHub - mgmeyers/obsidian-list-callouts: Create callouts in lists in Obsidian. · GitHub](https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-list-callouts)). Instead of manually clicking the start of the sentence and positioning a “!” or “?” or any other character the plugin offers, the cursor can be anywhere in that sentence and be called out multiple pressing CTRL+ENTER.

So pressing CTRL+ENTER would result in

This is a sentence

- This is a sentence
- 
  - This is a sentence

- This is a sentence  
! This is a sentence  
? This is a sentence  
& This is a sentence

### Things I have tried

Google.

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**Author:** ![Jopp](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Jopp](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Jopp)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2024, 8:47am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cycle-through-bullet-points-checklist-and-characters-using-ctrl-enter/92761/2 "2024-12-05T08:47:23Z")

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Great idea, to cycle with a hotkey between numbered list items, list items and checkboxes.  
CTRL+ENTER is OK, I’d prefer another combo, but this could be easily tweaked in settings/hotkeys .

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**Author:** ![holroy](https://forum.obsidian.md/user_avatar/forum.obsidian.md/holroy/32/77699_2.png) [@holroy](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/holroy)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cycle-through-bullet-points-checklist-and-characters-using-ctrl-enter/92761/3 "2024-12-07T15:01:41Z")

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I’m not quite sure if I’m getting your use case, but when I read it I thought about custom task decorations, and how you can use various status characters for a task to display various icons. This doesn’t add a character to the start of the sentence though, but rather changes the status character of the task.

One place to read more about this is in the _Tasks_ plugin documentation: [About Statuses - Tasks User Guide - Obsidian Publish](https://publish.obsidian.md/tasks/Getting+Started/Statuses/About+Statuses) . And that documentation also showcases how it can cycle through the different status characters for a given tasks. I reckon that should also be possible to assign to a hotkey, so that you could cycle through the status characters.

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**Author:** ![Postbag](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ce73a5/32.png) [@Postbag](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Postbag)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2024, 12:53pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cycle-through-bullet-points-checklist-and-characters-using-ctrl-enter/92761/4 "2024-12-13T12:53:59Z")

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I found a solution in this thread [Is there any way to cycle through more bullet markers? - #6 by Synchronicity](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-there-any-way-to-cycle-through-more-bullet-markers/75830/6)

Works great! I made a state group using the callout function from the plugin List Callouts and coupled the cycling to next in list to ctrl + enter.

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- $ || ✅ {time:: YYYY-MM-DD}
- !
- @ || (📅{time:: MM-DD})
- ?
- &
- %  
{PARAGRAPH}

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**Author:** ![system](https://forum.obsidian.md/uploads/default/original/3X/b/e/bec35fbd23ab28909bb6bfe62cb32eb82dd34019.png) [@system](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/cycle-through-bullet-points-checklist-and-characters-using-ctrl-enter/92761/5 "2025-01-10T12:54:53Z")

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