[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.

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Gary