Hi Eric,

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> What I would do is make the A, B and C paragraph items.  Then add
> checkboxes (C-u C-c C-x C-b) to any list item you want to mark as a todo
> item.  You can set/unset using C-c C-x C-b.  If you add the text [/] to
> the headline with the TODO on it, it will be updated to indicate the
> number of completed checkboxes and the total number of such boxes each
> time you set or unset one.
>

 I just discovered org inline tasks. This seems to be another approach, and
very useful!

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#closing-outline-sections

   -k.