Task Lists

Task Lists are an extension of GitHub Flavored Markdown used to create interactive to-do lists, widely applied in project management and task tracking.

Basic Task List Syntax

Incomplete Tasks

Use - [ ] to create incomplete task items:

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- [ ] Complete project documentation
- [ ] Write unit tests
- [ ] Deploy to production environment

Rendering Effect:

[ ] Complete project documentation
[ ] Write unit tests
[ ] Deploy to production environment

Completed Tasks

Use - [x] or - [X] to create completed task items:

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- [x] Set up project framework
- [X] Design database structure
- [x] Implement user authentication

Rendering Effect:

[x] Set up project framework
[X] Design database structure
[x] Implement user authentication

Mixed Task Lists

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## Project Development Progress

- [x] Requirements analysis
- [x] Technology selection
- [ ] Frontend development
  - [x] Login page
  - [x] Main page
  - [ ] User profile page
- [ ] Backend development
  - [x] User management API
  - [ ] Order management API
  - [ ] Payment interface
- [ ] Testing
  - [ ] Unit tests
  - [ ] Integration tests
- [ ] Deployment and launch

Rendering Effect:

Project Development Progress

[x] Requirements analysis
[x] Technology selection
[ ] Frontend development
- [x] Login page
- [x] Main page
- [ ] User profile page
[ ] Backend development
- [x] User management API
- [ ] Order management API
- [ ] Payment interface
[ ] Testing
- [ ] Unit tests
- [ ] Integration tests
[ ] Deployment and launch

Task List Format Rules

Syntax Requirements

Element	Syntax	Description
List marker	`-`	Must use hyphen
Space		Must have space after hyphen
Checkbox	`[ ]`	Space inside brackets indicates incomplete
Completed	`[x]` or `[X]`	'x' inside brackets indicates completed
Text	Any text	Must have space after checkbox

Correct Format Examples

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✅ Correct format:
- [ ] Task 1
- [x] Task 2
- [X] Task 3

❌ Incorrect format:
-[ ] Missing space
-[] Missing checkbox content
- [o] Wrong marker
* [ ] Wrong list symbol

Nested Task Lists

Multi-level Task Structure

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- [ ] 📋 Product Planning
  - [x] Market research
  - [x] Competitive analysis
  - [ ] User interviews
    - [x] Prepare interview questions
    - [ ] Contact target users
    - [ ] Conduct interviews
    - [ ] Organize interview results
  - [ ] Requirements document writing

- [ ] 🎨 UI/UX Design
  - [ ] Prototype design
    - [x] Low-fidelity prototype
    - [ ] High-fidelity prototype
  - [ ] Visual design
    - [ ] Color scheme
    - [ ] Icon design
    - [ ] Page design

- [ ] 💻 Technical Development
  - [x] Technical architecture design
  - [ ] Frontend development
  - [ ] Backend development
  - [ ] Database design

Rendering Effect:

[ ] 📋 Product Planning
- [x] Market research
- [x] Competitive analysis
- [ ] User interviews
  - [x] Prepare interview questions
  - [ ] Contact target users
  - [ ] Conduct interviews
  - [ ] Organize interview results
- [ ] Requirements document writing
[ ] 🎨 UI/UX Design
- [ ] Prototype design
  - [x] Low-fidelity prototype
  - [ ] High-fidelity prototype
- [ ] Visual design
  - [ ] Color scheme
  - [ ] Icon design
  - [ ] Page design
[ ] 💻 Technical Development
- [x] Technical architecture design
- [ ] Frontend development
- [ ] Backend development
- [ ] Database design

Task List Enhancements

Using Emojis for Categorization

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## 📅 This Week's Task Plan

### 🔥 High Priority
- [x] 🐛 Fix login page bug
- [ ] 🚀 Release v2.1 version
- [ ] 📊 Complete quarterly report

### 📋 Regular Tasks
- [x] 📝 Update documentation
- [ ] 🧪 Write test cases
- [ ] 🔍 Code review

### 💡 Improvement Suggestions
- [ ] ⚡ Optimize page loading speed
- [ ] 🎨 Improve user interface
- [ ] 📱 Mobile adaptation

Rendering Effect:

📅 This Week's Task Plan

🔥 High Priority

[x] 🐛 Fix login page bug
[ ] 🚀 Release v2.1 version
[ ] 📊 Complete quarterly report

📋 Regular Tasks

[x] 📝 Update documentation
[ ] 🧪 Write test cases
[ ] 🔍 Code review

💡 Improvement Suggestions

[ ] ⚡ Optimize page loading speed
[ ] 🎨 Improve user interface
[ ] 📱 Mobile adaptation

Adding Detailed Information

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- [ ] **User Registration Feature** `Important`
  - Implement email registration
  - Add phone number verification
  - Integrate third-party login (WeChat, QQ)
  - **Deadline**: 2023-12-15
  - **Assignee**: Zhang San

- [x] **Payment System Integration** `Completed`
  - Alipay interface
  - WeChat Pay interface
  - Bank card payment
  - **Completion Date**: 2023-11-20
  - **Assignee**: Li Si

- [ ] **Database Optimization** `In Progress`
  - Query performance optimization
  - Index rebuilding
  - Data cleanup
  - **Expected Completion**: 2023-12-10
  - **Assignee**: Wang Wu

Rendering Effect:

[ ] User Registration Feature Important
- Implement email registration
- Add phone number verification
- Integrate third-party login (WeChat, QQ)
- Deadline: 2023-12-15
- Assignee: Zhang San
[x] Payment System Integration Completed
- Alipay interface
- WeChat Pay interface
- Bank card payment
- Completion Date: 2023-11-20
- Assignee: Li Si
[ ] Database Optimization In Progress
- Query performance optimization
- Index rebuilding
- Data cleanup
- Expected Completion: 2023-12-10
- Assignee: Wang Wu

Real-world Application Scenarios

1. Project Management

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# E-commerce Website Development Project

## Sprint 1 (2023-11-01 - 2023-11-15)

### 🎯 Sprint Goals
Complete user system and basic product management features

### 📋 Task List

#### User System 👤
- [x] User registration/login
- [x] Email verification
- [x] Password reset
- [ ] User profile management
- [ ] Avatar upload

#### Product Management 🛍️
- [x] Product list display
- [x] Product detail page
- [ ] Product search functionality
- [ ] Product category filtering
- [ ] Product review system

#### Shopping Cart 🛒
- [ ] Add to cart
- [ ] Shopping cart item management
- [ ] Shopping cart quantity update
- [ ] Shopping cart checkout

### 🐛 Bug Fixes
- [x] Login status exception
- [x] Image loading failure
- [ ] Slow page response
- [ ] Mobile adaptation issues

### 📝 Documentation Updates
- [x] API documentation
- [ ] User manual
- [ ] Deployment documentation

2. Learning Plan

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# 🎓 JavaScript Deep Learning Plan

## Phase 1: Foundation Reinforcement (Week 1-2)

### ES6+ New Features
- [x] let/const variable declaration
- [x] Arrow functions
- [x] Template literals
- [x] Destructuring assignment
- [ ] Spread operator
- [ ] Promise and async/await
- [ ] Modules (import/export)

### DOM Manipulation
- [x] Element selection and manipulation
- [x] Event handling
- [ ] Dynamic element creation
- [ ] Style manipulation
- [ ] Form handling

## Phase 2: Advanced Content (Week 3-4)

### Functional Programming
- [ ] Higher-order functions
- [ ] Pure functions and side effects
- [ ] Function composition
- [ ] Currying
- [ ] Deep understanding of closures

### Asynchronous Programming
- [x] Callback functions
- [x] Promise
- [ ] async/await best practices
- [ ] Error handling
- [ ] Concurrency control

### Performance Optimization
- [ ] Code splitting
- [ ] Lazy loading
- [ ] Memory management
- [ ] Performance monitoring tools

## Learning Notes 📚
- [x] Daily learning summary
- [ ] Code example organization
- [ ] Difficult problem records
- [ ] Practice project development

3. Meeting Records

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# 📅 Product Team Weekly Meeting (2023-11-20)

## Meeting Agenda

### 📊 Last Week's Work Review
- [x] Product requirements review
- [x] User feedback analysis
- [x] Competitive product research report
- [x] Data analysis report

### 🎯 This Week's Work Plan
- [ ] New feature prototype design
- [ ] User experience optimization plan
- [ ] Technical feasibility assessment
- [ ] Launch plan development

### 🚧 Pending Issues
- [ ] **High user churn rate**
  - Analyze churn reasons
  - Develop improvement measures
  - Track improvement effects
  
- [ ] **Slow page loading speed**
  - Technical team research
  - Optimization plan design
  - Implementation timeline

### 📋 Action Items
- [ ] Zhang San: Complete user research questionnaire (by Friday)
- [ ] Li Si: Submit prototype design (by next Tuesday)
- [ ] Wang Wu: Technical solution assessment (by next Wednesday)
- [ ] Zhao Liu: Competitive analysis update (by Thursday)

### 📝 Meeting Resolutions
- [x] Determine next month's product roadmap
- [x] Approve user experience improvement budget
- [ ] Develop team collaboration standards

4. Personal GTD System

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# 🗂️ Personal Task Management System

## 📬 Inbox
- [ ] Reply to client emails
- [ ] Organize desktop files
- [ ] Schedule dental checkup
- [ ] Research new learning courses

## 🎯 Today's Focus (MIT - Most Important Tasks)
1. [ ] 🔥 Complete project proposal (2 hours)
2. [ ] 📞 One-on-one meetings with team members (1 hour)
3. [ ] 📚 Read technical documentation (30 minutes)

## 📅 This Week's Plan
- [ ] **Work Tasks**
  - [x] Monday: Project kickoff meeting
  - [x] Tuesday: Requirements analysis
  - [ ] Wednesday: Prototype design
  - [ ] Thursday: Technical review
  - [ ] Friday: Weekly summary

- [ ] **Personal Development**
  - [x] Complete online course Chapter 3
  - [ ] Write technical blog post
  - [ ] Attend technical sharing session
  - [ ] Update resume

- [ ] **Life Arrangements**
  - [x] Gym workout (Monday, Wednesday, Friday)
  - [ ] Dinner with friends
  - [ ] Watch a movie
  - [ ] Organize room

## 📚 Waiting For
- [ ] Waiting for designer to provide materials
- [ ] Waiting for client feedback
- [ ] Waiting for server deployment completion

## 💡 Someday/Maybe
- [ ] Learn new programming language
- [ ] Write a technical book
- [ ] Develop personal project
- [ ] Travel to Japan

Common Errors and Solutions

1. Syntax Errors

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❌ Incorrect format:
-[ ] Missing space
-[] Empty checkbox
- [o] Wrong marker
* [x] Wrong list symbol

✅ Correct format:
- [ ] Incomplete task
- [x] Completed task
- [X] Completed task (uppercase also works)

2. Nesting Issues

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❌ Incorrect nesting:
- [ ] Main task
- [ ] Sub-task (missing indentation)

✅ Correct nesting:
- [ ] Main task
  - [ ] Sub-task (correct indentation)
  - [ ] Another sub-task

3. Checkbox Position

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❌ Wrong position:
- Task description [ ] (checkbox at the end)

✅ Correct position:
- [ ] Task description (checkbox at the beginning)

Supported Platforms

GitHub/GitLab

✅ Fully supports interactive checkboxes
✅ Can click to toggle status in web interface
✅ Supports use in Issues and Pull Requests

Editor Support

VS Code: Fully supports, can click to toggle
Typora: Supports visual editing
Obsidian: Supports interactive task lists
Notion: Automatically converts to to-do items

Static Site Generators

VitePress: Supports rendering (non-interactive)
GitBook: Supports task list display
Docsify: Requires plugin support
Jekyll: GitHub Pages native support

Best Practices

1. Keep It Simple and Clear

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✅ Recommended: Concise task descriptions
- [ ] Fix login bug
- [ ] Update documentation
- [ ] Deploy to test environment

❌ Not recommended: Overly long descriptions
- [ ] Need to fix various strange issues users encounter when logging in with email...

2. Use Categories and Priorities

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✅ Recommended: Organized task lists
## 🔥 Urgent Tasks
- [ ] Fix production environment bug

## 📋 Regular Tasks
- [ ] Code review
- [ ] Documentation updates

## 💡 Improvement Ideas
- [ ] Performance optimization
- [ ] New feature development

3. Regular Updates and Maintenance

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✅ Recommended: Timely status updates
- [x] ~~Completed tasks~~ (can use strikethrough)
- [ ] Tasks in progress
- [ ] Tasks to start

# Weekly Summary (regular review)
- Completed tasks: 3
- Pending tasks: 2
- New tasks: 1

HTML Output

Markdown task lists convert to HTML:

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- [ ] Incomplete task
- [x] Completed task

Converts to:

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<ul>
  <li><input type="checkbox" disabled> Incomplete task</li>
  <li><input type="checkbox" checked disabled> Completed task</li>
</ul>

List Syntax - Basic list format
Extended Syntax Overview - Other extension features
Best Practices - Documentation organization suggestions

Practice

Try creating the following task lists:

A personal learning plan task list
A phased task list for project development
A complex task structure with multiple levels of nesting
A task management system combining emojis and priorities

Task Management Tools

GitHub Projects: Native task list support
Notion: Powerful task management features
Obsidian: Knowledge management and task tracking
Todoist: Professional task management application

Markdown Editors

Typora: WYSIWYG task list editing
Mark Text: Real-time task list preview
Zettlr: Task management in academic writing
Joplin: Open-source note and task management

Browser Extensions

Markdown Here: Use task lists in emails
GitHub Task Lists: Enhanced GitHub task list functionality
Markdown Viewer: Local file task list rendering

Task Lists ​

Basic Task List Syntax ​

Incomplete Tasks ​

Completed Tasks ​

Mixed Task Lists ​

Project Development Progress ​

Task List Format Rules ​

Syntax Requirements ​

Correct Format Examples ​

Nested Task Lists ​

Multi-level Task Structure ​

Task List Enhancements ​

Using Emojis for Categorization ​

📅 This Week's Task Plan ​

🔥 High Priority ​

📋 Regular Tasks ​

💡 Improvement Suggestions ​

Adding Detailed Information ​

Real-world Application Scenarios ​

1. Project Management ​

2. Learning Plan ​

3. Meeting Records ​

4. Personal GTD System ​

Common Errors and Solutions ​

1. Syntax Errors ​

2. Nesting Issues ​

3. Checkbox Position ​

Supported Platforms ​

GitHub/GitLab ​

Editor Support ​

Static Site Generators ​

Best Practices ​

1. Keep It Simple and Clear ​

2. Use Categories and Priorities ​

3. Regular Updates and Maintenance ​

HTML Output ​

Related Syntax ​

Practice ​

Related Tools ​

Task Management Tools ​

Markdown Editors ​

Browser Extensions ​

Task Lists

Basic Task List Syntax

Incomplete Tasks

Completed Tasks

Mixed Task Lists

Project Development Progress

Task List Format Rules

Syntax Requirements

Correct Format Examples

Nested Task Lists

Multi-level Task Structure

Task List Enhancements

Using Emojis for Categorization

📅 This Week's Task Plan

🔥 High Priority

📋 Regular Tasks

💡 Improvement Suggestions

Adding Detailed Information

Real-world Application Scenarios

1. Project Management

2. Learning Plan

3. Meeting Records

4. Personal GTD System

Common Errors and Solutions

1. Syntax Errors

2. Nesting Issues

3. Checkbox Position

Supported Platforms

GitHub/GitLab

Editor Support

Static Site Generators

Best Practices

1. Keep It Simple and Clear

2. Use Categories and Priorities

3. Regular Updates and Maintenance

HTML Output

Related Syntax

Practice

Related Tools

Task Management Tools

Markdown Editors

Browser Extensions