Lists and todos

Lists keep plans tidy, and todos turn a note into something you can tick off. Varlig continues a list as you press Return, indents it with Tab, and gathers every unfinished todo in the sidebar.

Bulleted and numbered lists

## Pack
- Passports
- Chargers
  - Phone
  - Camera

## Saturday
1. Tram 28 to the castle
2. Lunch in Alfama
3. Sunset at a miradouro

The shortcuts work on several selected lines at once. If every selected line is already that kind of list, the shortcut turns the list back into ordinary lines. Numbered List numbers the lines 1, 2, 3 for you.

Keep typing

• Return starts the next item: the same bullet, the next number, or a new unticked todo.
• Return on an empty item steps out one level, or ends the list if it isn’t nested.
• Tab indents the item, or every selected item, by two spaces to nest it. Shift-Tab moves it back out.
• ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ move an item up or down.

Todos

A todo is a bulleted item with a checkbox: - [ ] for an open task, - [x] for a done one.

- [x] Book the ferry
- [ ] Pack the chargers
- [ ] Drop the keys with Ana

• Tick a todo by clicking its checkbox, or put the cursor on it and press ⌘. On a line that isn’t a todo yet, ⌘. turns it into one.
• Tick several at once: select them and choose Format › Tasks › Mark Completed or Mark Incomplete.
• Tidy up: Format › Tasks › Move Completed to Bottom moves done tasks below the open ones in every list in the note. To do this whenever you tick something, turn on Move completed tasks to the bottom in Settings › General.

Only bulleted items can be todos; a numbered item with a checkbox stays an ordinary numbered item.

Find your todos

• Any note with at least one open todo appears in the sidebar’s Todo section (⌥⌘3).
• In search, @todo finds notes with open todos, @done finds notes with finished ones, and @task finds notes with any todo. See Finding anything.

Fold a long list

Put the cursor on an item that has indented items below it and press ⌘’ to fold them away. Press it again, or start typing, to unfold.