@senthil - Did you end up writing a userscript to hide or fade the bullets for checklists? If so, would you be willing to share it? Iâd love to use it.
It looks so cluttered to have both bullets and checkboxes for the same item â and it also makes no sense. Itâs redundant. With paper to-do lists, who draws a bullet point in front of a checkbox? Iâm willing to bet very few people do. The checkbox IS a form of bullet.
Itâs been like this for a long time and youâre actually the first person to propose this.
I understand the costs of changing something that your users have gotten accustomed to and that you have linked to features/actions, but ^this^ is not a good reason for persisting with a design that was not ideal in the first place. The potential issues you mentioned (e.g. the bullet point is for drag and drop, and can optionally be clicked on to zoom) are not tied to a bullet per se, and can be solved with an alternative.
Check out bullets/checkboxes in Bear and Taskade â the list is much easier to scan and digest when itâs visually cleaner. Bear also does a great job of mixing checklists and bullets (i.e. âchildrenâ of a checkbox item can be bullets, and are not prescriptively limited to also being checkboxes).