Emoji and Task Lists

[leonelgalan]

There are two features I miss the most out of GFM:

• Emoji 😄
• Task Lists ☑️

Are there any plans to support these?

[schoblaska]

Emoji for sure. How do you envision task lists working in this context, though?

[leonelgalan]

I thought they could be read only, changed only by the author in future commits.

[schoblaska]

Ah, ok. So the use case would be: keeping track of to-do items at the top of a draft post, for instance?

[leonelgalan]

That and a series of posts where you say, this is what we've done so far and what's coming next. I was thinking about it and emojis alone could do the trick:

• ✔️ Done!
• ◻️ TODO

It's just that GFMS users might be used to the * [x] Syntax

[schoblaska]

It seems like the main value of the task lists is that they persist changes by updating the underlying document, which I'm not sure makes sense in the context of blog posts (and would be tricky to implement, since Jargon treats your GitHub content as read-only).

I think emojis make a lot of sense, though. I'll add it to our product backlog and update this issue when we ship it.

[leonelgalan]

👍