Yes I think this is very important. Ive recently started using check boxes as a way to collect together all to-doās in one search (which I was recently delighted to discover we are able to do).
But it fails because as soon as you make a bullet a checkbox, every bullet below it also becomes a check box!
I can see why that would make sense to those using DL purely as a to-do list.
But for me the whole value of DL is to be able to mix up notes and to-doās. So you can make a to-do of āplan partyā (for example) then brainstorm all kinds of ideas beneath that to-do, and as you come up with new to-doās add check boxes to make them to-doās that come up in the bookmarked to-do search. Having every note get a checkbox destroys that!
So - having now read some of the previous discussion on all this - I think the thing is that to my mind a check box is NOT AT ALL like at number in a numbered list.
Please could you give us an option in the settings to state whether we want check boxes added automatically (like numbers) or manually?
This would accommodate both workflows which are both valid and reasonable but different (a bit like choosing whether bullet-clikcing expands or zooms - which we have an option for).
Hope this is easy and can be done soon - automatic check-box-adding is a real downer for me in my increasing and increasingly enjoyable use of DL.
Thanks to all!