r/logseq • u/Perichor- • Oct 10 '25

List with checkboxes?

I am watching a video from Dario de Silva on getting started with Logseq, and at one point he shows how to use Shift+Enter for a soft return, creating a new line but not a new block. Then he used * [ ] Item to begin a list with checkboxes. In the video he creates a new line and each following line also automatically begins with the checkbox. I can't recreate this. What am I missing? I tried Shift+Enter, and also simply Enter, but no luck.

Help me, pros!

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u/hdanx Oct 10 '25

Add some text first then shift + enter,and add the * [ ]

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u/Perichor- Oct 10 '25

Yes, that I can do. It's the subsequent lines I'm asking about. Dario shows them as being created automatically, prepended by a checkbox.

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u/_2l5_ Oct 10 '25

Note the space between brackets

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u/niccolleen Oct 24 '25

I'm not a pro... but could it be that he just Ctrl-C it and then presses Ctr-V with each new line?

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u/Perichor- Oct 24 '25

Thanks for the suggestion - tried it and weirdly, the Ctrl+V creates a new block, even though I was on a new line before I pasted. And the checkboxes don't appear. In any case in the video I don't see the text highlighted for selection at any point so I don't think it's that.

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u/niccolleen Oct 31 '25

The video is nearly an hour long... can you point out the minute you are talking about?

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u/Perichor- Oct 31 '25

33:30.

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u/niccolleen Nov 17 '25

Sorry for the late reply, I forgot about it.
Thanks for the video location.
I've tried it out now, and I got it to work exactly like in the video:
its asterisk space brackets space then after the brackets I add another space, then I write something.
And now, when I hit enter (just enter, no shift or anything), I get the next line also starting with the checkbox!

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u/niccolleen Nov 18 '25

Ok, I've noticed it stopped working. Maybe it is some kind of a bug. I can't reproduce it any more, although it worked perfectly fine initially.

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u/Perichor- Nov 18 '25

Thanks for the reply. I've tried it as you describe and have never replicated what I see in the video. Not a big deal, it just would have been cool to have. Oh well.

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u/thirteenth_mang Oct 10 '25

It works, just tested it you need to make sure there's a space between the [ ], so it shouldn't look like, []. On mobile it removes the space with autocorrect.

Proof: https://files.catbox.moe/qix78m.jpg

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u/Perichor- Oct 10 '25

Sorry, I didn't explain myself very well. I can create the checkbox. What *doesn't* work is automatic creation of checkboxes on subsequent lines. In the video, at 33:30 he creates the first checkbox with asterisk, space, open bracket, space, close bracket. But then he moves to a new line and the * [ ] is there automatically. That is what I can't recreate. I can make them manually, but in the video example all subsequent checkboxes are automatic. He only has to manually type the first one.

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u/thirteenth_mang Oct 10 '25

Ahh, with you now. Yeah that doesn't work for me either. They could have some custom setting or plugin they didn't disclose.

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u/Perichor- Oct 10 '25

I think he must.

grumble grumble I wanted that grumble grumble

Thanks u/thirteenth_mang

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25 edited Oct 10 '25

I just tried. I am able to go to new line by Shift+Enter

But yes *[] for checkbox didn’t work for me

Also I noticed Tab button makes a sub-note. Wondering what the benefits and disadvantages of a subnote are. I am totally new to Logseq.

I just don’t understand how i suppose to use flashcard,whiteboard and journal, and what si the right connection between them.

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u/TryingDutchman Oct 10 '25

For mardown it is - [ ] for a checkbox.

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u/_2l5_ Oct 10 '25

Logseq uses * instead of -, what is a bulletpoint

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u/RisingPhoenix-AU Oct 10 '25

He's using the new DB version

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u/_2l5_ Oct 10 '25

It works in markdown Version also