Formatting Guide
Check out how to customise your Smart Checklist in order to make your work process more effective. Don’t worry we made it really fast and handy!
Contents 👇🏻
Checklists items
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
- item todo
+ item done
~ item in progress
x item cancelled |  |
☝🏼NOTE: There should NOT be any additional tabs or spaces at the beginning of the row. Otherwise, this block renders incorrectly 🙃
Mandatory items
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
-! Item 1
~! Item 2
x! Item 3
+! Item 4
-! [PASSED] Item 5
-! [IN QA] Item 6 |  |
☝🏼 NOTE: There should NOT be any additional tabs or spaces at the beginning of the row. Otherwise, this block renders incorrectly 🙃
Headers
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
# Biggest heading
## Big heading
### Heading
#### Small heading
##### Smaller heading
###### Smallest heading
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☝🏼 NOTE: There should NOT be any additional tabs or spaces at the beginning of the row. Otherwise, this block renders incorrectly 🙃
Text Formatting
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
**bold text**
_italic text_
`emphasize`
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Item details
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
- item todo
> piece of information
> that is useful for new ppl
> on how to complete an item
> even `with` **markdown** *support* |  |
☝🏼 NOTE: There should NOT be any additional tabs or spaces at the beginning of the row. Otherwise, this block renders incorrectly 🙃
Manage item details:
Add details | |
 add details by hovering the checklist item |  add details via 3-dots menu |
Edit details | |
 edit details by clicking on the pencil icon |  edit details by clicking on them
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Delete details | |
 delete details by hovering the checklist item |  delete details via 3-dots menu |
Bullet points and Lists
You can make your checklist item details as a list or add bullet points:
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
- item todo
> * bullet point one
> * bullet point two
> > * bullet point nested
> 1. list item one
> 2. list item two |  |
☝🏼 NOTE: There should NOT be any additional tabs or spaces at the beginning of the row. Otherwise, this block renders incorrectly 🙃
Dates
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
- date in past 10-03-2022
- date in the future 10-12-2025
- today 21-06-2023 | 
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Smart Checklist also supports other date formats: 10-03-2025 10/03/2025 2025/10/03 2025-03-10
You can also easily access a calendar by typing “//”:
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
// |  |
User mentions
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
*just start typing @ and user name |  |
*you can mention multiple users as well |  |
URL (external links)
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
- http://google.com
- [link to google](http://google.com) |  |
Links Jira Issues
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
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Emojis 😎
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
: |  |
Images
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
- 
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Display text in [ ]
You Type | You Get |
|---|---|
~ \[Text in brackets\] | 
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You are all set! Enjoy using Smart Checklist like a pro 😎