[Sorry, I'm going to mess up the quoting here because I replied to Tory,
not the list. - gco]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Tory S. Anderson <torys.anderson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Does the "- [ ]" form not work for you? They are generally considered the
> equivalent in my experience. C-c checks them.
>
> Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com> writes:
>
> > Is there any way to have TODO items in bullet lists rather than headings:
> >
> > * Meeting report
> > ** Meeting 1
> >   - a thing that happened
> >   - another thing that happened
> >   - TODO: email everyone about all the things
> >   - some more things that happened
> >
> > org-mode seems to only allow TODO in headings as far as I can tell.
>

Gary replied:
  Hi Tory; I don't think checkboxes (- [ ]) are the same as todo items.
 They don't show up with C-c / t or in the global TODO list, you can't use
regular todo workflows.

Tory:
  Ah; Yeah, you're right. You have a different work flow than I do with
TODO items. What's your reason for not using TODO items themselves?

Gary:
  My reason for not using TODO is just that it'd be ugly and confusing to
put a heading in the middle of a list.

  Compare this:
* Meeting report
** Meeting 1
  - a thing that happened
  - another thing that happened
  - TODO: email everyone about all the things
  - some more things that happened

  to this:
* Meeting report
** Meeting 1
  - a thing that happened
  - another thing that happened
***TODO: email everyone about all the things
  - some more things that happened


Tory:
  Perfect sense; yeah, TODO headers have a tendency to clobber later stuff,
and list stuff doesn't make it into the workflow. Makes good sense.

-- 
Gary