# Unchecking checkboxes daily or weekly?

**URL:** <https://forum.obsidian.md/t/unchecking-checkboxes-daily-or-weekly/61183>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [June 7, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/unchecking-checkboxes-daily-or-weekly/61183 "2023-06-07T11:12:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![SiMonolith](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@SiMonolith](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/SiMonolith)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/unchecking-checkboxes-daily-or-weekly/61183/1 "2023-06-07T11:12:44Z")

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Hello, I am a newbie to obsidian, but very impressed so far by the capabilities of the programm.

I thought about having a todo-list in Obsidian, that includes tasks that i have to do daily or weekly. Is there a way to have those tasks as checkboxes, that I can check once I finished the task this day, but that get once unchecked every night, so that i can see them as open tasks again the next day.

(Even couler would be if the state of the checkboxes before they get unchecked could be stored somewhere)

Thank you!

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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:** [June 7, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/unchecking-checkboxes-daily-or-weekly/61183/2 "2023-06-07T12:10:18Z")

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The use case you’re describing is usually accomplished using daily notes based upon a template. Then each day you open the daily notes, tick of whatever task you accomplished that day, and if you so want you could do weekly/monthly/… reviews and check how often or how many times you’ve done those tasks.

This could also be accomplished/extended using various habit trackers, of which you both find manual setups and plugins to help you do this. A lot of options exists.

To directly answer your question on unchecking checkboxes, there is a command, `Toggle checkbox status`, with default hotkey of Ctrl/Cmd L which changes the status of selected task(s).

This will however _not_ retain the status of earlier states, so it would more be the use case of having a set of tasks related to going on a trip and you need to repeat those tasks for each trip, but don’t really care for the previous trip. You could then have this set of tasks in a file, do them as needed, and when the next trip occurs you could rinse-and-repeat.

It’s also useful for checking/unchecking using the keyboard, when you’re editing away on your notes and have a task to complete/reset.

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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:** [June 14, 2023, 12:10pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/unchecking-checkboxes-daily-or-weekly/61183/3 "2023-06-14T12:10:47Z")

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