CheckSorted

An Obsidian plugin that keeps your checkbox lists tidy; completed items move into a dedicated section at the bottom of your note, and typing, completing, and deleting tasks all get out of your way.

Features

Move tasks where they belong

Check a task and it slips into a Completed section at the foot of your note. Do it on demand from the command palette or ribbon, or turn on auto-move and watch each task leave the instant you tick it. Uncheck something by mistake? It quietly returns to your active list on its own.

Keep sub-tasks with their parent

Turn on Keep sub-tasks with their parent and a task travels with everything indented under it: sub-tasks, notes, links and images. Check a parent and its whole group moves down, sub-tasks marked done too; uncheck it and the group comes back, reopened. Check a single sub-task while its parent is still open and just that sub-task moves.

- [ ] Buy milk
- [x] Groceries
    Shop closes at 8
    - [ ] eggs
    - [ ] bread

becomes

- [ ] Buy milk

## Completed
- [x] Groceries
    Shop closes at 8
    - [x] eggs
    - [x] bread

Works in Reading view too

Turn on Auto-move in Reading view and ticking a box while reading a note sorts it just like in the editor.

Sync both ways in one click

The sidebar ribbon runs a full pass: completed tasks move down, anything you un-ticked moves back up, and leftover empty checkboxes are swept away; so neither list ever drifts out of sync.

Autocomplete tasks as you type

Start typing in a checkbox and CheckSorted suggests matching tasks from anywhere in the note, done or not. Pick one and that task hops onto the line you're typing, with its original copy removed, so duplicates collapse into a single entry. The task lands in the state of the line you're typing: type into an unchecked box and an archived task comes back active; type into a checked box and an open task is marked done; all in one keystroke.

Delete a task in one click

Hover a checkbox line in the editor and a × appears on the right, just like Google Keep. Click it to remove that task; no selecting, no backspacing. Phones and tablets have no hover, so turn on Show delete button on touch screens to keep the × visible there.

Tidy up in bulk

• Restore all — pull every archived task back into the active list at once
• Clear — delete the completed section and everything in it in a single step

Shape it to your workflow

• Custom heading — name the archive section and pick its level, H1 through H6
• Completion dates — stamp each finished task with a date like ✅ 2026-06-19, in any Moment.js format
• Newest first or last add completed items to the top or bottom of the archive
• Status bar toggle — flip auto-move on or off and read its state (✓ / ✗) at a glance

Usage

Commands

All commands are available via the Command Palette (Ctrl/Cmd + P):

You can assign custom hotkeys to any of these in Settings → Hotkeys.

Ribbon icon

Clicking the CheckSorted ribbon icon in the left sidebar runs a full sync in one step:

1. Any unchecked - [ ] items left in the completed area are returned to the main list (and stray empty checkboxes are cleared).
2. All checked - [x] items in the note body are moved into the completed area.

Example

Before running Move:

- [ ] Write proposal
- [x] Research topic
- [ ] Schedule meeting
- [x] Review notes

After running Move:

- [ ] Write proposal
- [ ] Schedule meeting

## Completed
- [x] Research topic
- [x] Review notes

Unchecking an item in the completed area automatically returns it to the main list.

Settings

Installation

From Community Plugins

Once approved, CheckSorted will be installable directly from Obsidian:

1. Open Settings → Community Plugins and click Browse
2. Search for CheckSorted
3. Click Install, then Enable

Using BRAT

BRAT lets you install plugins directly from GitHub before community store approval.

1. Install BRAT from the Obsidian community plugins
2. Open BRAT settings and click Add Beta Plugin
3. Paste this URL: https://github.com/Esmaeelpour/obsidian-checksorted
4. Enable CheckSorted in Settings → Community Plugins

BRAT will also handle updates automatically.

Manual

1. Download main.js, manifest.json, and styles.css from the latest release
2. Copy all three files into your vault at .obsidian/plugins/checksorted/
3. Reload Obsidian and enable CheckSorted in Settings → Community Plugins

Credits

Inspired by obsidian-completed-area by DahaWong.

License

MIT