TAB should indent empty checkbox, instead of inserting a tab

[krsbi 0]

As it currently stands, it is annoying to make sub-checkboxes. This is because they do not function the same way as bullet-points. With a bullet point, you can make sub-bullet points by pressing RETURN and then TAB, as shown here. However, doing the same on an empty checkbox just inserts the tab blank space. 

You should be able to just press RETURN and TAB to make an indented checkbox, same as with bullet points. I know this is the way that the Mac OSX notes app works, and is the desired UX.

[CalS 5,004]

19 hours ago, krsbi said:

As it currently stands, it is annoying to make sub-checkboxes. This is because they do not function the same way as bullet-points. With a bullet point, you can make sub-bullet points by pressing RETURN and then TAB, as shown here. However, doing the same on an empty checkbox just inserts the tab blank space. 

You should be able to just press RETURN and TAB to make an indented checkbox, same as with bullet points. I know this is the way that the Mac OSX notes app works, and is the desired UX.

Try Ctrl+M to indent the check box.

[krsbi 0]

This worked perfectly for me, thanks!

However, this obviously is not intuitive and should be changed to match the above desired UX.

[CalS 5,004]

1 hour ago, krsbi said:

This worked perfectly for me, thanks!

However, this obviously is not intuitive and should be changed to match the above desired UX.

You are welcome.  Remember indent is supposed to move in all lines in a paragraph in, a tab just moves a predefined distance on a single line. 

Though tab and indent do work the same for numbered lists and bullets, they don't for check boxes, which it appears are being treated as text, not lists.

[jefito 5,585]

One of the problems is that checkboxes are not like bullet points, in that they're not mapped to HTML elements like <ul>  and <ol>; it uses a special Evernote element <en-todo>. That may be why -- as Cal notes -- it's treated as text: you can select it, copy/poste/delete it, etc. And as text, it gets treated the same as normal text does in Evernote with respect to pressing Tab just before it: 4 space characters get inserted (unless you're in a table, in which case, Tab goes to the next cell). So Tab only indents bulleted/numbered list items, but Ctrl+M indents everything.

Remember -- there's nothing intuitive about tabs. They're handled differently in a number of different ways in  different contexts

None of the above is to say that Evernote couldn't make checkboxes work like lists, but it may not be a simple task, development-wise.