Checkbox Sty1es

Pick a visual style for each task checkbox in Obsidian. Clicking an unchecked task opens a menu with 29 styles: ten checkbox shapes and 19 colored icons. Each style changes how the checkbox looks and can apply a matching effect to the task text.

Checkbox shapes

Style	Text effect	Written to the note
Classic	strikethrough	- [c]
Rounded	muted	- [r]
Circle	accent color	- [o]
Minimal	faint	- [m]
Filled	bold	- [f]
Cross	red strikethrough (cancelled)	- [-]
Square	underline	- [s]
Dot	italic (in progress)	- [.]
Dash	dashed underline (postponed)	- [~]
Glow	glowing text	- [g]

Icons

Icon styles replace the checkbox with a colored icon. Most leave the text as it is.

Style	Text effect	Written to the note
In progress	none	- [/]
Forwarded	muted	- [>]
Scheduled	muted	- [<]
Question	none	- [?]
Important	bold	- [!]
Star	none	- [*]
Quote	italic	- ["]
Location	none	- [l]
Bookmark	none	- [b]
Info	none	- [i]
Savings	none	- [S]
Idea	none	- [I]
Pro	none	- [p]
Con	none	- [C]
Fire	none	- [F]
Key	none	- [k]
Win	none	- [w]
Up	none	- [u]
Down	none	- [d]

How it works

• The chosen style is stored as the character between the brackets, so tasks stay plain Markdown tasks. Nothing else in the note is changed.
• One mouse button opens the style menu and the other checks and unchecks the task. You choose which is which in the settings.
• Checking a task with the other button writes a plain [x], shown in the default style chosen in the settings. Unchecked tasks use that style too.
• Colors come from the current theme's variables, so the styles follow light and dark themes.

Uncheck all tasks

The uncheck-all action unchecks every task in the open note. Use it again right away and the tasks go back to how they were; once you change anything in the note, the saved state is dropped so nothing you edited is overwritten. It is off by default: in the settings you can turn on a button for it at the top of each note, record a keyboard shortcut for it, or both.

Settings

• Menu button — left click or right click opens the style menu; the other button checks and unchecks the task.
• Uncheck-all button — show the uncheck-all button at the top of each note.
• Uncheck-all hotkey — record a keyboard shortcut for unchecking all tasks in the current note.
• Default style — the style applied when you check a task with the other button, and the look of unchecked and [x] tasks.

Limitations

• Plugins that only treat [x] as done (for example Tasks or Dataview queries) may not count styled tasks as completed.
• Themes that ship their own alternate checkbox icons may override some styles.
• Checkboxes inside embeds, canvas cards and callouts keep the native click behavior.

Development

npm install
npm run build

styles.css is generated from src/styles.base.css and the style registry in src/checkbox-styles.ts. To add a style, add one entry to BOX_STYLES or ICON_STYLES with a unique char.