Task lists (or checkboxes, tasklists) work with most characters enclosed with [ ], not just x os space. Even emojis seem to work, with the exception of 🔁, for example. Here’s a snippet I tried in Obsidian.

- [ ] 
- [x] 
- [X] 
- [a] 
- [5] 
- [?] 
- [✔] 
- [🔁] 
- [❌] 

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Obsidian mostly supports Github Flavored Markdown, and the GFM spec supports any enclosed character.

I’m on Obsidian v0.12.15, Windows 10.

We don’t follow GFM and that’s not what GFM says.