Add Create Todo Items In Logseq as a Workflow TIL

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workflow/create-todo-items-in-logseq.md

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+# Create Todo Items In Logseq
+
+Having used GitHub flavored markdown and tools like Roam Research and Obsidian,
+I'm used to being able to add interactive todo items to a document with square
+brackets, like so:
+
+```
+- [ ] Do this
+- [ ] Do that
+```
+
+This exact syntax doesn't work in Logseq, but I've figured out two ways of
+adding todo items.
+
+First, you can access the todo syntax with a forward slash command. Type `/`
+and then start typing `TODO`. It will show up as a top result. Hit enter and
+you'll have a fresh todo item that you can add a description to.
+
+Second, as the above hints at, we can get right to the todo syntax by typing
+one of `TODO`, `NOW`, or `LATER` in all caps followed by a description. For
+example:
+
+```
+TODO Send out invoices
+NOW Reply to those emails
+LATER Schedule that meeting
+```
+
+These will render as checkable boxes marked as either `TODO`, `NOW`, or
+`LATER`, until they are checked off.
+
+You can also search for blocks that match one of these three categories.