Calmly Writer
Lists and checklists
Bulleted, numbered and checklist items, nesting them with Tab, and turning one kind of list into another.
Starting a list
Type * for a bulleted list or 1. for a numbered one, or use the two list buttons on the toolbar (Ctrl+Shift+8⇧⌘8 and Ctrl+Shift+7⇧⌘7). Each EnterEnter adds an item; EnterEnter on an empty item ends the list.
Nesting
With the cursor on an item, TabTab moves it one level deeper and Shift+Tab⇧Tab brings it back up. It works the same in bulleted, numbered and checklists. Outside a list, TabTab inserts an em space instead, so you can indent the first line of a paragraph.
Checklists
Type - [ ] at the start of a line to begin a checklist, or Ctrl+Shift+9⇧⌘9. Each item has a box you can tick by clicking it; ticked items are drawn differently so you can see at a glance what is done. Checklists nest like the other lists.
A single checkbox can also go anywhere in the text: type [ ] or [x] in the middle of a sentence and it becomes a box you can tick.
Changing the kind of list
Right-click inside a list and choose Convert to checklist or Convert to bullet list. On a touch screen, the same two are in the format bar.
Checklists are kept in Markdown files as - [ ] and - [x] lines, the way other editors write them, so a list ticked in Calmly Writer stays ticked elsewhere.
More in Writing
The Markdown shortcuts that turn into headings, lists and emphasis while you type, and the ones you can turn off.
The small toolbar that appears over selected text, and the reminder of shortcuts that shows when you hold Ctrl or Cmd.
Six levels of heading, the panel that lists them, and the keys that move through it without touching the mouse.
Links to web pages, to other documents on your disk and to headings in the same document, and how to follow them.
Four ways to put a picture in a document, the difference between embedding and linking one, and what the editor does not do with images.
The slash menu that inserts blocks, the toolbar that edits tables, and the rules that keep them compatible with Markdown.
Notes attached to a passage, in three colours, which travel with the document and never print.
Curly quotes, dashes, ellipses and arrows written for you as you type, the quotation marks of your language, and how to turn each one off.
The spell checker and its languages on each system, adding words to the dictionary, and the language of the app itself.
Right-to-left writing for Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and other scripts, per document or for every new document.
Searching the document or every open tab, and a replace that keeps the capitals of what it finds.
What happens to formatting when text comes in from elsewhere or goes out, and the two ways to copy a document as code.
