Checkvist
A keyboard-driven online outliner for building nested task lists, checklists and research notes.
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About Checkvist
Checkvist is a web-based outliner built around lists with unlimited nesting. Most actions have keyboard shortcuts, and a command palette opens with Shift Shift. Items can carry priorities, tags, due dates, Markdown formatting, images, tables, code and file attachments. There is a zen mode and a dark mode.
Lists can stay private, be shared with a team with assigned tasks and progress tracking, or be published publicly, with a password or for a limited time. Browser extensions and email integration collect material into lists, and import and export avoid lock-in.
Strengths
- Keyboard shortcuts for nearly every action, plus a command palette
- Unlimited hierarchy with filtering and quick navigation
- Sharing options include password-protected and time-limited lists
- Import and export to avoid lock-in
Limitations
- Runs as an online service rather than a local app
- Outline-only structure may feel limiting for long-form writing
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumA free plan is offered, with paid plans for more features.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Web, Browser extension
- How it runs
- Web application, Hosted service, Browser extension
- Best suited for
- People who plan and take notes in nested lists and prefer the keyboard
- Categories
- Note-taking, Office tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Checkvist
Compare allSoftware that can replace Checkvist for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Workflowy
A nested outliner that organizes notes, lists and projects as a single tree of bullets.
Workflowy keeps notes and tasks in a single nested list with desktop, mobile and web apps, though its free plan caps new nodes at 100 per month.
Logseq
An outliner that stores notes as plain Markdown files, built around a daily journal and linked blocks.
Logseq is an AGPL-licensed outliner that stores notes as local Markdown files, with a daily journal, block-level linking and a plugin API, instead of an online-only service.
Roam Research
A networked note-taking outliner for connecting related ideas into a graph of linked notes.
Roam Research is a paid web outliner focused on linking notes into a graph of ideas, with real-time collaboration and an option to store data locally.
OmniOutliner
An outlining app for Mac, iPad, iPhone and Vision Pro for structuring ideas and documents.
OmniOutliner is a paid outlining app for Apple devices that adds columns, smart calculation columns and attachments, but gives up Checkvist's browser access and web sharing.
Bike
A fast outliner and rich text writing app for the Mac that uses standard file formats.
Bike is a paid Mac-only outliner using standard file formats that stays fast with very large outlines, replacing an online service with a local app.
TreeSheets
Organize ideas in a grid of nested cells.
TreeSheets is a free Zlib-licensed desktop app that mixes hierarchical outlines with a spreadsheet-like grid of nested cells, a different structure that takes some adjustment.
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Twos
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Superlist
A task and notes app from the creators of Wunderlist, combining to-do lists, notes and projects.
Amplenote
A note-taking and task app that combines linked notes, a to-do list, calendar planning and AI agents.
Diigo
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