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Support more checkbox statuses #44

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jotaen opened this issue Aug 24, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #54
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Support more checkbox statuses #44

jotaen opened this issue Aug 24, 2022 · 2 comments · Fixed by #54

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jotaen commented Aug 24, 2022 •
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Apart from the currently supported statuses [ ] (open), [x] (checked), [@] (ongoing), and [~] (obsolete), there might be more useful ones.

I think the overall number of statuses should be limited, just so that they can still be memorized relatively easily. To me, there shouldn’t be more than 5 or 6 overall, which – next to the existing ones – would leave room for 1–2 more.

The purpose of this issue is to collect and maintain an overview of potential candidates.

Purpose Symbol Ideas
“unclear”, “in question” [?] #34
“paused”, “on hold” [.] #42

Note: the requirements for a symbol are:

  • It should be somewhat self-explanatory
  • It should be language-agnostic, so it should be a symbol, not e.g. the first letter of an English word
  • If ever possible, it should be an ASCII character, to ensure that it’s easy to type on every keyboard
  • There should only be one canonical symbol per status, so no “aliases”
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clach04 commented Sep 12, 2022

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jotaen commented Sep 13, 2022

@clach04 thanks for the refs, I’ve added them to the table above.

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Add new checkbox status “in question”: [?]
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Resolves #44.

I think the question mark icon would be quite useful.

Regarding the “pause” one, I’m not fully convinced, also partly because
I think there is no intuitive symbol to represent it.

Overall, I think 5 statuses is enough for now.
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Add new checkbox status “in question”: [?] jotaen/xit
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