Checklists
A tree of things to tick off. Items nest, fold and reorder, and the whole list is meant to be driven from the keyboard — the mouse is optional everywhere on this page.
The shape of it
An item can hold items. Tab tucks one under the item above it and Shift+Tab brings it back out, so the structure is typed rather than dragged. Ticking a parent does not tick its children — they are separate things, and a list that decided otherwise would be lying about one of them.
Folding is yours. Collapsing a branch does not collapse it for everybody else in the workspace.
A note on any item
Every item has a marker that opens a note behind it — full Markdown, the same as a note's body. Press n on an item to open it. The marker is there even when the note is empty, because "write something here" is the thing you want a button for.
Finding one in a long list
/ opens a filter box. Typing keeps only the items that match and
the ones above them that say where they are — so you see the match and its
place at once. It reaches inside an item's note, inside a folded branch, and
finds a ticked item the Filter is hiding. is:done keeps only
ticked items; is:open the rest. Esc empties it.
Templates
A checklist can be saved as a template and stamped out again — as a note you make by hand, or automatically each day by a folder that keeps a diary. The template carries the words; a checklist made from one is a new list, and changing the template later does not reach back into the lists it made.
History
A checklist keeps its history like every other note: what was added, ticked, moved or removed, and when. You can read an older version and put it back.
Every key
These work while the list has focus. Click any row, or Tab to the list, to give it focus.
- Tab is captured inside the list. It indents rather than moving focus to the next control, which is what makes a list typeable without the mouse.
- Esc always lets go, one level at a time. From editing it saves and returns to the list; from the list it moves over to the sidebar, and from there it brings you back. It used to release focus to nowhere in particular, which is why there was never a key that got you back in.
Moving around
- ↑ + ↓
- Previous or next visible item
- ← + →
- Collapse or expand — nothing if it cannot
- Shift + ↑
- Move the item and its children up
- Shift + ↓
- Move the item and its children down
Changing things
- Space
- Tick or untick
- e
- Edit this item
- n
- Open this item's note
- Enter
- New item on the line below — the first child, if this one is open
- Shift + Enter
- New item above, then edit it
- Tab
- Indent, under the item above
- Shift + Tab
- Outdent, out to the level above
- Shift + Delete
- Delete — asks first if it has children
- Shift + Backspace
- The same, for a keyboard with no Delete key
While editing
- Enter
- Save and start the next item
- Tab + Shift + Tab
- Indent or outdent, still editing
- ↑ + ↓
- Move the caret, as anywhere else
- Esc
- Save and stop editing
Finding one
- /
- The box above the list — type to keep only the items that match, and the ones above them that say where they are. It reaches an item's note, a done item the Filter is hiding, and inside a folded branch. Esc empties it
- is:done
- In the box: only ticked items. is:open for the rest
Everything else
- ?
- Show or hide the Help panel above the list
- y
- Copy a link to this — paste it into any note and it comes back here
- Y
- Copy its web address instead — to send to somebody rather than to paste into a note
- s
- Everything about this note that is not its content — its settings, its history, who can see it
- Esc
- Over to the notes and folders — and Esc there brings you back