Insert Lists

Three kinds of list, all made from a few characters at the start of a line.

List	Syntax	Shortcut
Bullet	- item (* and + work too)	⌘⇧8
Numbered	1. item	⌘⇧7
Task	- [ ] todo, done is - [x]	Toolbar button

Press Return inside a list and Jotaid continues it with the same type. Press Return again on an empty item to leave the list.

Nesting

Indentation sets the level: Tab indents the current line, ⇧Tab takes it back out.

- First level
  - Second level
    - Third level
- Back to the first level

The three types nest inside each other freely — a run of task items under a numbered step is perfectly valid:

1. Preparation
   - [ ] Gather sources
   - [ ] Draft an outline
2. Writing

Numbered lists render the numbers you wrote. If you would rather they renumber themselves, write every line as 1. — most Markdown tools will count for you.

Task Lists

A space between the brackets means open; an x means done:

- [ ] Not done
- [x] Done
- [X] Uppercase counts as done too

Either case works — that is what GFM specifies, and it matches GitHub, Obsidian and Typora. In the preview they render as clickable checkboxes: tick or untick one directly, without going back to the source to change the letter. Task lists work well for closing out a single note — but to track something across notes, a tag such as to-read plus a filter serves better, because a tag gathers scattered notes into one list.

Next Steps

• Insert Tables — Structured data
• Insert Annotations — Footnotes, super/subscript, highlight