In Joplin, when a checkbox is ticked, it is grayed out, to make it clearer at a glance what checkboxes are ticked, especially in a large list.
Maybe it's not necessary though, and it has drawbacks, so let's decide if we keep or remove the feature (and we'd rather not add an option for this).
That's a fair point. Getting lighter and lighter when nested is not good at all
the list items being grayed out more for nested items seems specific to the TinyMCE editor
It doesn't happen in the markdown editor, and the grayed out effect also seems more subtle in the markdown editor:
Markdown editor:
TinyMCE:
If I had to choose I'd probably say don't gray them out, but if the TinyMCE effect was more like the markdown editor I suspect people may not complain
EDIT: The markdown viewer also has the more severe grayed out effect, but doesn't have the nesting problem:
I voted no. Yes, the task is completed/checked off, but it's still part of my note. Graying it out makes the note more difficult to read (light grey on white).
I used to run status meetings with checkbox for to-do items. At the next meeting, I want to review what was completed. Constantly trying to read grey-on-white just gave me a headache, and I ditched the checkbox.
It's not asked, but I have the same problem with to-do notes. There's an option to show or not show completed to-dos, or I can delete them outright. Letting users keep them and visible, but difficult to read, is again headache inducing.
I'm using Microsoft To Do application for to do lists. It's graying out, crossing out, but also hiding ticked items. It works great like this. But Joplin is not a todo app so I'm not sure if it would work the same here. Still, in my opinion, graying out plus crossing out items might be the best.
I like that the item is grey-out and voted to keep it. However the poll shows I'm in the minority. If you must change it, I propose that it be user selectable, Maybe ever with a color wheel or a grayscale slider for further customization.
To make it clearer the text is grayed out and made harder to see? Maybe it's just my ancient eyes but grayed out text appears less clear to me. This is a half-full vs. half-empty type thing. I'd prefer to see bright things that have been completed and the sordid tasks yet to be done grayed out. Less of a reminder that there's still that nasty stuff called "work" (pardon my language) to do. 
I appreciate visually that it's grayed out, easier to read the note.
But I still voted no, for overall UX best practices. To me grayed out means disabled / not editable. It gets confusing to use it for enabled but "done" things.
But I don't care all that too much, whatever fine people most useful is fine.
Personally I (with much assistance from this forum) have tweaked my .css to also strike-through the text of completed tasks, which remains my favorite.
So I can do without the grey, but if the greying out is changed, perhaps the strike-through option can be added?
Cheers,
kai.
I much prefer checked items to be grayed out. It makes it easier for me to concentrate on unchecked items.
But couldn't it be a user-defined setting, I mean something a little easier than editing CSS?
After some consideration I've voted Yes (checked checkbox should be greyed out).
I understand that the alternative is no visual indication (other than the tick in the box and blue color of the box) that it's checked out?
I also think that people might not know what they are voting for. They know how it looks now, but they can only imagine how it would be. They might regret the change after it's done.
PS. I'm using stock editor on Android and PC. I wonder if people voting NO are using it as well, or the other editor which seems to have severe issues...
So what is the verdict? It seems we have a fairly even split between votes to keep it / not keep it.
If a setting to choose is not desirable, as per bwat47's post, maybe there should at least be some consistency added for the lightness of the grey out across all editors?
Yes the poll was inconclusive.
I don't think it's easy to fix this issue on the RTE and since eventually we'd like to move to ProseMirror I'd rather not spend too much time on this.
Maybe we should cross out the done items though? That came up in another issue today
Not sure about crossing it out to be honest, as that's probably worse for the people who don't want it greyed out.
Fair enough about not touching TinyMCE, but bwat47's post also mentions the viewer has a lighter grey than the markdown editor, so maybe we should make the colour on the viewer match? The grey on the viewer does look kind of low contrast compared to the background to me, from the screenshot.
I don't want to have any other colour for the clicked checkboxe. I don't have a ToDo-Tool but a Tool to store my topics. I can't figure out, in what way it would be helpful to gray content of checked checkboxes. - It is quite obvious to see, whether an Item is checked or not.
For those you want to gray the text or strike through: This can be done with HTML-Tags. (strike-througth with text For myself I find it hard to read when the text is gray.
Just me 5 cent.
Obvous strike through is s text /s. This in '<>'.
