Why most of the times I am unable to create checkboxes just by typing " - [ ]"?

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To create checkboxes reliably I must use command “toggle checkbox status” but I would like to also just typing it

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You need a space between the brackets.

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Please show an example of one you’ve typed that doesn’t work? Include some of the surrounding text, in case it’s a Markdown problem from a line above.

Like allanelder pointed out, watch your spaces. This forum and some other Markdown apps will allow it without an extra space. Obsidian doesn’t.

Or possibly you’ve indented it without a parent bullet, and it’s rendering as code.

- [ ] YES

____- [ ] NO (where _ mean indenting spaces)

-[] NO
- [] NO
- [ ]NO

- [ ]
____- [ ] YES (if you have a parent checkbox or bullet)
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It doesn’t work, see my video. https://youtu.be/jW7EmK5CubY

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You fail to provide the information we ask for, making it really hard for us to help you to debug was happening.

There is most likely something something around the text you type causing this to happen.

But please reread earlier posts, and answer some of our questions!

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Thanks for a video, but it would be much more useful if you would paste the actual Markdown you’re trying to type.

In any case, it looks like (but very difficult to tell in a video) that you are still missing the space before the brackets. But maybe not, because it does turn into a bullet, so you maybe do a have a space. I can’t tell from your video.

- [ ] YES
-[ ] NO
- [ ]NO
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Are you typing a space after the closing bracket?

- [SPACE]SPACE and then ENTER

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Oh good point! I’ve added that to my list above.

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Thank you! That’s it! I didn’t add the space after.

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