It seems to me that org-capture requires templates to start with a heading (*). Can I not have a template like:
("d" "Daily Tasks" entry (file+datetree+prompt "daily.org")
"- [ ] %?")
that does not start with a *.
You have to change the third element the template ("entry type"). From the help:
type The type of entry. Valid types are:
entry an Org node, with a headline. Will be filed
as the child of the target entry or as a
top-level entry.
item a plain list item, will be placed in the
first plain list at the target
location.
checkitem a checkbox item. This differs from the
plain list item only is so far as it uses a
different default template.
table-line a new line in the first table at target location.
plain text to be inserted as it is.
For a checkbox you want checkitem
instead of entry
.
checkitem
instead ofentry
: "in org-mode, how to create checkbox items in org-capture?": stackoverflow.com/questions/23351474/…