Use case or problem
I am able to draw checkbox in a plain note following these instructions from [ Markdown for Checkbox requires 6 keystrokes. Reduce it to 2?:
To create a checkbox in Obsidian’s markdown, the current implementation requires 6 keystrokes (correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe all 6 are necessary):
- Dash
- Space
- Open bracket
- Space
- Close bracket
- Space
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I am creating a table and I would like to check off something once I’m done with it to signify it’s complete like below:
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The problem is that:
- You cannot use the same process to create a checkbox that has text with it in the same line
- You cannot create a checkbox that doesn’t have text before or after it while in a single cell in a table.
Proposed solution
Making it easy to find in the documentation of how to add a checkbox in a table or checkbox that has text before or after it.
Current workaround
I’ve experimented on a couple of solutions from Stack overflow but this response one seems to work best:
Pasting this when you want to have an enabled checkbox.
<input type="checkbox" />