Dimout checked items in checklist

[ArmorDarks]

Hi

Quite simple thing:

Make checked items in checklists to dimout (use close to commented-out blocks color):

- [ ] item
- [x] completed
- [ ] item

Probably it will also require additional option in settings, since I believe some users may not favor such behavior.

[maliayas]

I had a personal plan for task list improvements throughout the plugin.

However everything needs to be discussed before instead of directly jumping implementing. That will take some time I guess.

[ArmorDarks]

Thanks for quick reply!

Looking forward to see it :)

Should that issue be closed then?

[anatomatic]

Might want to checkout PlainTasks – incredibly feature-rich plaintext / taskpaper task manager for Sublime.

[jessmartin]

@ArmorDarks Nice! I'd love to see that feature as well.

@maliayas Where might this discussion take place? I'd love to help out. I'd like to be able to toggle a task as done and not done with a keystroke.

@anatomatic PlainTasks looks cool, but I'd rather have the full markdown support in my todolists.

[willow512]

I will add suggestion here as it seems relevant. The checkbox functionality might be further expanded by adding a hotkey to toggle checkbox on the current line.

[felixhao28]

@maliayas Do you want to share your personal plan for task lsit?

[maliayas]

Not very special notes. Key points are:

• Style of the completed tasks. Also should list markers(*, +, -) be dimmed too?
• A consensus for the keybinding.
• It should work with nested task lists.
• It should support multiline task items. Well, to some degree. I know how difficult it is.

[maliayas]

Also we might be inspired by the PlainTasks and sublime-t0d0 plugins.

[maliayas]

When the keybinding pressed on a regular line or a regular list item, it should be transformed into an unchecked task list item, preserving the line text. This should work with an empty line as well.

[maliayas]

Some tools (e.g. MarkdownTodo) prefer to add timestamp to the completed tasks such as @done (2012-01-08 18:12). I think those are unnecessary. Or maybe it might be enabled with a config option.

[onotype]

Is this still happening? I tried out PlainTasks but found it too opinionated to my liking. After extensive use of it, I found that all I really liked about it are the keybinding, and the dimming of done/cancelled tasks.

In response to the notes above:

• It would be nice if the list markers didn't get dimmed; just the text. ~~But that's just me.~~
• alt + d for done doesn't have a default keybinding (afaik). (and alt +c for cancelled if that's happening although I think Sublime does have something for alt c)

PlainTasks also adds timestamps but in my usage it was almost unnoticeable, borderline unnecessary. But it might be a nice addition for some folks. It was a nice reminder if anything.

[kylebebak]

I often use strikethrough to indicate a list item is finished. For example:

• need to do
• ~~done~~

It would be nice to have a hotkey to add or remove strikethrough from a line. I like this better than checkboxes.

Maybe worth mentioning: I tried PlainTasks and liked almost nothing about it.

[felixhao28]

@kylebebak Select the line and then press "~" to add strikethrough. There is currently no hotkey to remove strikethrough.