Checklists in Rich Text fields have some quirks that make them unnecessarily cumbersome, compared to e.g. how Bulleted Lists work. When the cursor is at the beginning of a non-blank line, inserting a Checklist (by typing “/k ENTER”) creates a NEW empty Checklist BELOW the current line. It would b…

While we’re talking about checklist improvements, I’d love it if they could be nested/indented! So many other tools allow this, and I find it extremely useful.

Well, yes and no. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: Check lists are not supported either by the original Markdown spec nor by “Commonmark”, one of the more, er, commonly used reference specs. But they are supported by the also widely-used “Github Flavored Markdown”, which I believe Fibery either use…

Rich Text: Checklist usability improvements

Bugs & Issues

Matt_Blais August 28, 2021, 7:39pm 3

Uh-oh, more Rich Text divergence from vanilla markdown

Topic		Replies	Views
Can't convert text to checklist from formatting toolbar Bugs & Issues	3	617	June 30, 2022
[FIXED] Cannot convert back from checklist to bullet list Bugs & Issues	4	272	March 12, 2026
[FIXED] Basic formatting lost when copy-paste checklists (and bullets) Bugs & Issues	6	1468	May 14, 2026
Lost line breaks when copy/pasting checkboxes as plain text Bugs & Issues rich-text	2	1030	August 28, 2021
Bullet behavior in rich text Bugs & Issues rich-text	6	532	February 9, 2026

Rich Text: Checklist usability improvements

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